Quotes About Learning

Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford.

I often wonder what I'd do if there weren't any books in the world.

But in our dislike of the individual do not let us mistake the diagnosis of his disease. He suffers not from ignorance but from stupidity. Give him learning and you make him not wise, but only more pretentious in his folly.

The unprepared will eventually be destroyed; ignorance is no hiding place.

First wives are a rite of passage into adult life. In many ways it's important that first marriages go wrong. That's how we learn the truth about ourselves.

The heavens and the earth, the woods and the wayside, teem with instruction and knowledge to the curious and thoughtful.

Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.

Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.

Know or listen to those who know.

There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.

The number of things which you do not understand increases day by day.

Perhaps she only learned the worth of that life when she came to reap the woeful harvest sown by her errors.

E' un po' come quando si costruisce una casa: si cerca il terreno, si assume un progettista e c'è persino chi vuole scegliere in prima persona tutto il materiale di cui saranno fatti i muri. Io però non sono una persona di questo tipo, preferisco che le cose mi capitino quasi per caso, quindi cerco di farmele andare bene e intanto imparo a conoscerle.

At first my impatience would lead me to the brink of despair, but when I finally learned to correct my mistakes coolly, it was truly as if I had somehow reformed my own slapdash character.

Because I have a lot of faith in you, I suddenly feel I out to tell you something. I learned it raising Yuichi. There were many, many difficult times, god knows. If a person wants to stand on her own two feet, I recommend undertaking the care and feeding something. It could be children, or it could be house plants, you know? By doing that you come to understand your own limitations. That's where it starts.

I tell ye it was some work for me to get the knack o' readin'; but when it come it come!

All artists are willing to suffer for their work. But why are so few prepared to learn to draw?

? ??i có nh?ng chuy?n khi c?n bi?t thì ta không bi?t không hi?u, khi bi?t ???c, hi?u ???c thì ?ã ch?ng còn ?? làm gì n?a. Tuy th? bi?t ???c thì v?n h?n là không...

When little girls ask too many questions their tongues drop off!

You can't let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.

The only way you learn to write is by reading and studying the kind of thing you would like to write — and by writing.

Transgressions are to be understood and corrected, not dwelt upon or agonized over.

After years of being taught that the way to deal with painful emotions is to get rid of them, it can take a lot of reschooling to learn to sit with them instead, finding out from those who feel them what they have learned by sleeping in the wilderness that those who sleep in comfortable houses may never know.

1. When trying to understand another religion, you should ask the adherents of the religion and not its enemies. 2. Don't compare your best to their worst. 3. Leave room for holy envy. (Krister Stendahl's rules of religious understanding)