Quotes About Learning

Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.

A person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was getting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him, and warn't ever going to grow dim or doubtful.

Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.

Good judgement is the result of experience and experience the result of bad judgement.

There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable. There is no way you can tell the child that if language had been a melody, he had mastered it and done well, but that since it was in fact a sense, he had botched it utterly.

Why do we lose interest in physical mastery? If I feel like turning cartwheels--and I do--why don't I learn to turn cartwheels, instead of regretting that I never learned as a child?

He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write. He is careful of what he learns, because that is what he will know.

But a life spent reading—that is a good life.

The mind wants to live forever, or to learn a very good reason why not. The mind wants the world to return its love, or its awareness; the mind wants to know all the world, and all eternity, and God. The mind's sidekick, however, will settle for two eggs over easy.

she reads book as one would breathe air, to fill up and live. ?

Books swept me away, one after the other, this way and that; I made endless vows according to their lights, for I believed them.

Usually it is a bit of a trick to keep your knowledge from blinding you.

She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.

She reads ?books as ?one would breathe air ?to fill up and live

The writer studies literature, not the world. He is careful of what he reads, for that is... what he will know.

Everywhere, things snagged me. The visible world turned me curious to books; the books propelled me reeling back to the world.

She read books as one would breath air, to fill up and live.

She reads books as one would create air, to fill up and live

Books were not an expense; they were an investment.

By fall, they can read. It happened by osmosis, the way it ought to: after they have spent several months on Daddy's lap, following his spoken words with their eyes and pretending to read, their comes a day when they no longer have to pretend.

Uno y otro deben estar aprendiendo hasta

Perhaps omelet skills should be learned at the same time you learn to fuck.