Quotes About Learning

That was the problem, wasn't it? You left home. But you never did become an adult. Not really. You just fucked up in different and more complicated ways.

He had always thought of solitary diners as sad. But now that he was the solitary diner, he felt rather superior. On account of the book, mostly. Learning something while everyone else was wasting time. Like working at night.

School might have been shit, but at least it was simple.

Most men wanted to tell you what they knew. The route to Wisbech. How to get a log fire going. David made her feel she was the one who knew things. He

But sometimes it is fun not knowing what the words mean because you can look them up in a dictionary...

Mind your discipline to read, read to discipline your mind.

One thing you will discover is that life is based less than you think on what you've learned and much more than you think on what you have inside you from the beginning.

It's a defining difference, curiosity. I've never known a stupid person who was curious, or a curious person who was stupid.

Read what you find interesting, and then follow your interests. You'll find that in doing so you always generate enough to illuminate the next step.

an old man with a cane may discover that his many years have added nothing to his innocence but proof and explanation, and that, as much as he may have learned in his long life, he cannot see as far as he could see when he was seven

I read. The more you read, the more the world opens up to you... and the happier you are and more comforted you feel. It's up to you. No you is educated who cannot educate himself.

Nobody steals books except kleptomaniacs and university students. In most places you can leave a book on the street and come back for in the next day.

I read. The more you read, the more the world opens up to you in a place like this, and the happier you are and more comforted you feel. It's up to you. No one is educated who cannot educate himself.

Scientists are sometimes wrong and fisherman are sometimes wrong.

Insure your reading is in alignment with your goals. Read everything you can find on your goals and your profession. It's the best investment you can make.

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions. —OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES

Being human, we are constantly broken apart by experience. To reconcile our humanness means we are ever learning how to accept our suffering and to restore our Wholeness.

Try as we will, we cannot escape the making of mistakes. But fortunately, the ever humbling cycle of growing strong roots comes from eating what grows from our own shit, from digesting and processing our own humanity. Like the buffalo, we are nourished by what sprouts from our own broken trail. What we trample and leave behind fertilizes what will feed us. No one is exempt.

I listened carefully as he described his little girl's first steps. He encouraged her to keep her eyes on him, and only when she didn't, did she stumble. Only when she lost her focus, when she became too conscious of the steps she was taking, did she fall.

Having a dog or cat will open your heart. Reading a book will open your mind. Having both a pet & a book...absolute heaven.

Reading any novel, good or mediocre, is a workshop for a writer.

One of the reasons you can't learn everything you need to know about leadership from a seminar or a book is that leadership is, ultimately, an art.

Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.

The most interesting information come from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.