Quotes About Learning

They fed him a diet made up entirely of knowledge.

She sat, rediscovering the fullness of her first tongue in one long submersion. Again and again she would pause on a word Melio uttered. She would roll it around in her mind, feeling the contours of it. At times her mouth gaped open, her lips moving as if she were drinking in his words instead of breathing.

Before fighting," she said, "we learn pain. Only once we learn how to control pain, can we overcome our fear of it. Once we overcome fear, we can learn to fight freely without the crippling weight of apprehension. That is when we will move on to fighting.

One of the things I've learned over the years by observing human nature is that anger will almost always cause you to make mistakes.

he was inadequately trained for the cut and thrust savagery of the average American teen.

She didn't drop below fifty, and taught that little Fiesta things Ford never intended it to know.

Rather than modifying her personality by adjusting her base programming, she wanted to do so naturally, by simply considering the ramifications of her thoughts and actions. Looking down on Stanley, to her, was essentially a form of racism; the last thing she wanted was to consider herself a racist of any kind, but defeating it inside her own personality meant learning, not reprogramming.

know anything about, and so far, the

of the bone even making it into the hippocampus.

Learn you will never, if attention you do not pay.

Kids today are smarter than we ever were. And they've got computers, too, which is awesome. They're scary to me.

All of life's great lessons present themselves again and again until mastered.

I just want you to know that I will do anything to help you through this difficult time. But I need to learn what to say and what not to say, what to do and what not to do, so I can be an encouragement and not hurt you unintentionally. I am even willing to attend this group by myself to learn these things, but it would be much better if you would go too. Then we could discuss the experience and what we both learn from it.

When it comes to money, just having heard of something isn't enough; you've got to know what it means.

It's not what you know about money—it's what you don't know that can wipe you out.

The trouble with people like Tony Blair is they get confused, they think intelligence is education when they're two different things.

You make good work by (among other things) making lots of work that isn't very good, and gradually weeding out the parts that aren't good, the parts that aren't yours. It's called feedback, and it's the most direct route to learning about your own vision. It's also called doing your work. After all, someone has to do your work, and you're the closest person around.

Art is human. Error is human. Art is error.

Lanier University

To expand our minds and to become more fully civilized members of the human race, we should learn as many different languages as we can. The diversity of tongues is a treasure and a resource for thinking new thoughts.

In many circumstances, formal education replaces the infant language with one that goes on to be used in adult life as the operative means of communication.

Translation-?based language teaching is no longer in fashion, but its ghost still inhabits a number of misconceptions about what translation is or should be.

There are many different ways of teaching languages. The Ottomans rounded up youngsters in conquered lands and brought them back as slaves to be trained as dil oglan, or "language boys," in Istanbul. Modern direct methods are gentler but rely on the same understanding of how languages are best learned—through total immersion in a bain linguistique, a kind of baptism of the brain.

I'm just not a natural teacher.