Quotes About Learning

les profs ne sont pas préparés à la collision entre le savoir et l'ignorance, voilà tout ! (p. 290)

Leggere, si impara a scuola. Quanto ad amare leggere...

Che l'allievo di tanto in tanto incontri un professore pieno di entusiasmo che sembra considerare la matematica per se stessa, e la insegna come una delle Belle Arti e la fa amare in virtù della sua personale vitalità, e grazie al quale lo sforzo diventa un piacere, questo dipende dalla casualità dell'incontro, non dalla genialità dell'Istituzione.

Le savoir est d'abord charnel. Ce sont nos oreilles et nos yeux qui le captent, notre bouche qui le transmet. Certes, il nous vient de livres, mais les livres sortent de nous. Ça fait du bruit, une pensèe, et le gout de lire est un héritage du besoin de dire.

Isabelle [era] la piccola prosivendola che dai tempi immemorabili della loro infanzia considerava il libro l'indispensabile materasso dell'anima.

Time spent reading, like time spent loving, increases our lifetime.

Releer no es repetirse, es ofrecer una prueba siempre nueva de un amor infatigable.

Elle les élevait en traçant dans l'espace des lignes invisibles qu'ils respectaient. Des enfants funambules.

I went to college, but I learned to write by reading and writing.

Ignorance is nothing to be ashamed of—until you find out you've got it. Once you realize you're ignorant, if you don't do something about it, then you have the right to feel ashamed.

Thinkers aren't limited by what they know, because they can always increase what they know. Rather they're limited by what puzzles them, because there's no way to become curious about something that doesn't puzzle you.

In fact, of course, there is no secret knowledge; no one knows anything that can't be found on a shelf in the public library.

El conocimiento es patrimonio de la humanidad.

It's mainly about working hard and proving to people you're serious about it, and stretching yourself and learning. The mistake a lot of actors make, particularly young ones, is allowing themselves to feel that they're the finished articles, the bee's knees, and it's not true.

NEVER start sketching screens and then try to reverse-engineer a CM from them. This is a rookie mistake that can get you ejected from the Jedi academy.

He used to say, 'Never be satisfied with what you know, only with what more you can find out.

Aesthetic judgments, rather than abstract reasoning, guide and shape the process by which we all come to know what we know.

The human brain is like a memory system that records every thing that happens to us and makes intelligent predictions based on those experiences.

I hate textbooks. I hate how they shoehorn even the most incongruous words – like 'cup' and 'bookcase,' or 'pencil' and 'ashtray' – onto the same page, and then call it 'vocabulary.' In a conversation, the language is always fluid, moving, and you have to move with it. You walk and talk and see where the words come from, and where they should go. It was in this way that I learned to count like a Viking.

Adults love to ask children idiotic questions so that we can chuckle when they give us idiotic answers.

Qué diera hoy por saber esto ayer!

He believed in himself, believed in his quixotic ambition, letting the failures of the previous day disappear as each new day dawned. Yesterday was not today. The past did not predict the future if he could learn from his mistakes.

On the diffusion of education among the people rest the preservation and perpetuation of our free institutions.

Nobody here wants to be awful," he said. He hopped a little as he zipped up. "It's just nobody here knows all the rules yet, and that makes a rocky time.