Quotes About Learning

Teenagers are going to make mistakes, more than likely a lot of them. All we can do is be there to pick up the pieces, and hope they learn from them.

But after a time even my temper tantrums have to give way to rational thought, and I faced at last what ought to have been obvious from the very beginning: We'd lost because we were ignorant. And of the two of us, I was the worse off, because I hadn't even known I was ignorant.

It is a shame that so few have the time or inclination for scholarship these days. There is much entertainment to be afforded in perusing the mistakes of our forbears.

Put knowledge in the hands of stupid people, and it just made them more stupid.

Materializations are often best produced in rooms where there are books.

Well I am here, I am at the heart, I have come through the maze--where is the secret I am to learn from my many agonies? Here I am, here I am, where is my reward? What have I earned, learned, spurned?

I found that no matter what unpleasantness I found myself involved with, if I stopped and asked myself, "Why have I created this? What am I learning from this?" the circumstance became not a tragedy but an enlightening experience.

This world has been connected...tied to the darkness...soon to be completely eclipsed...there is very much to learn...you understand so little...a meaningless effort...one who knows nothing cannot understand nothing.

Believe me, I know how to respect a man of learning, a man who sits and studies Torah, despite the fact that he doesn't so much as put his finger into cold water. You think he's lazy? He'd do anything, poor fellow—but there's nothing to do. So he sits and studies. Let him keep studying.

But it's as my mother says: "If you want to learn how to grow cabbages, ask the gardener, not the goat.

It's no picnic, your Russian grammar; you have to mind your p's and q's.

I should have listened to my mother when she said, "Never throw your luck out with the dish-water …

We should not hoard knowledge; we should be free from our knowledge.

You can be taught knowledge, but only game wisdom when you are ready.

There are no such things as dumb problems. There are only dumb students.

Life is difficult more often that it is not. To live means to face difficulties. It's what you learn from those difficulties that matters.

There are no mistakes

If children could, if adults knew.

Experience teaches us that the world is not a nursery.

Nor have I any reason for wishing to eliminate this evidence of my initial views. Even to-day I regard them not as errors but as valuable first approximations to knowledge which could only be fully acquired after long and continuous efforts.

No writing is ever wasted, you used to say. Even if something doesn't work out and you end up throwing it away, as a writer you always learn something. Here

Any writer worth his salt knows that only a small proportion of literature does more than partly compensate people for the damage they have suffered in learning to read. Rebecca West.

No writing is ever wasted, you used to say. Even if something doesn't work out and you end up throwing it away, as a writer you always learn something.

Socrates to Phaedrus: "I'm a lover of learning, and trees and open country won't teach me anything.")