Quotes About Learning

O]ut of books / He taught me all the ignorance of men, / And how God laughs in heaven when any man / Says 'Here I'm learned; this, I understand; / In that, I am never caught at fault or doubt.

We get no good By being ungenerous, even to a book And calculating profits - so much help By so much rending. It is rather when We gloriously forget ourselves, and plunge Soul-forward, headlong, into a book's profound, Impassioned for its beauty and salt of truth - 'Tis then we get the right good from a book.

one must come to the understanding in the end that one was always insufficiently practiced, and yet one must sometimes act anyway. Practice itself was an act.

Earth could have learned a long time ago that securing initial and ongoing consent, rather than attempting to assert hierarchy, is key to a nonconfrontational relationship. Because we're basically primates, we had to wait for a bunch of aliens to come teach us.

The path to knowledge follows many strange turnings.

Jeoffry lays back his ears and continues to creep, as the Moppet showed him. she had said,

Marshal Reeves, watching me, snorted. "Live and learn, child," he said. "Everybody's worthy of respect.

But as much as I was a full-time doctor now, I'd been a doctor and a cop before. One does not become either of those things due to a congenital lack of curiosity.

Once you absorb the maths, it's all perfectly clear.

there were none so scornful as those who had had to learn the hard way.

It's so easy to be catastrophically wrong. And so difficult to admit it to yourself, internalize it, and act upon the knowledge.

He was paying the immemorial price of apprenticeship: things concealed, games of trust.

Earth could have learned a long time ago that securing initial and ongoing consent, rather than attempting to assert hierarchy is key to a nonconfrontational relationship.

You manage to disentangle yourself, but then you're out in the hard, cold universe, and suddenly everybody is disagreeing with you-and you have no idea how to manage disagreement and how awful it makes you feel, having never experienced it at all.

And it proceeded to tell me the history of how the Synarche learned to be a patient suitor, because it turns out that making mistakes is how we grow up, whether we're a multi-species alien utopia, or just some dude screwing up their first romance beyond believability.

Good Goth girls knew these things. Good comparative religion grad students knew them, too.

Whatever her life was now, Cricket had made her own mistakes in the past-was still making them, if André Deschênes was any indication-and frankly, she'd class some of them as mistakes only because she got caught.

She was ten months ahead of the curriculum and still bored.

Oh, little boy, when did you get so wise?

Whatever this child had from Strifbjorn…he was smarter than Strifbjorn had ever shown himself.

We didn't build House. We just adaptd it, learned how to program it.

We didn't build House. We just adapted it, learned how to program it.

And except for Francesca taking up with a rooster up the street—who knew chickens were such popular pets?—and leaving little chicks all over the backyard for a change. Last Claire heard—which was this morning—little Luigi and Sergio were learning to crow just like their papa. And doing much too fine a job of it, as Claire had been awake since daybreak.

Lose something every day. Accept the fluster of lost door keys, the hour badly spent. The art of losing isn't hard to master.