Quotes About Learning

I mean that one cannot expect to possess knowledge which does not change one. Once one knows, then one is acting upon that knowledge, whether it is to withhold the knowledge from those who would also be changed, or to give it to them.

Sometimes you need to be forced to study what's right in front of you.

Give me a man or woman who has read a thousand books and you give me an interesting companion. Give me a man or woman who has read perhaps three and you give me a dangerous enemy indeed.

First time my master's in English literature ever proved useful.

give me a man or woman who has read a thousand books and you give me an interesting companion. Give me a man or woman who has read perhaps three and you give me a dangerous enemy indeed. But

I've always been my own teacher," I said soberly. "And I must confess I've always been my favorite pupil as well.

He had learned something from a book which others believed must be learned from doing or practice.

Information age. I guess I'm part of it, even if I can't remember how to use my iPhone from week to week, and have to learn how to send e-mails all over again every couple of years, and can't retain any profound technological knowledge about the computers I sometimes use.

I picture heaven as a vast library, with unlimited volumes to read. And paintings and statues to examine galore. I picture it as a great doorway to learning. Do you think the hereafter could be like that?

She was quite the reader of books, that I can tell you. She knew so much poetry. She was always quoting this or that verse in an off-handed manner. I try to remember the things she quotes, the poets she loved.

By morning, I realized that I was his complete superior and I had been sadly cheated in having him for a teacher.

I feel foolishly safe with books which can be a mistake.

He didn't have to make the flowers fall," I said. "I taught him not to hurt things that were pretty. I taught him that when we were small.

Lascia che sia la carne a insegnare alla mente

Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ask. On the contrary

Knowledge drifts in and out of my mind," said Lestat with a little look of honest distress and a shake of his head. "I devour it and then I lose it

and sometimes I can't reach for any knowledge that I ought to possess. I feel desolate, but then knowledge returns or I seek it out in a new source.

And I saw that if I were to maximize every experience available to me, I must exert my own powers over my learning.

Knowledge drifts in and out of my mind," said Lestat with a little look of honest distress and a shake of his head. "I devour it and then I lose it and sometimes I can't reach for any knowledge that I ought to possess. I feel desolate, but then knowledge returns or I seek it out in a new source.

Perhaps I fear him because I could love him again, and loving him, I would come to need him, and needing him, I would come to learn from him, and learning from him, I would be again his faithful pupil in all things, only to discover that this patience for me is no substitute for the passion which long ago blazed in his eyes.

que sólo podía haber aprendido del mismo Marius. ¿Y dónde estaba Marius

The impossibility of truth being served by generalities, and the impossibility of learning proceeding without them.

The young reinvent the universe," he said. "And they give the new universe to us as their gift. But sometimes the young make terrible mistakes. The young need the wisdom of the old. The man smiled. They do and they don't, he said.

I devour it and then I lose it and sometims I can't reach for any knowledge that I ought to possess. I feel desolate, but th knowledge returns or I seek it out in a new source.