Quotes About Learning

But the little people were constantly doing and saying things that pleased, often things that surprised me. Every day I grew more loath to leave them. While I was at work, they would keep coming and going, amusing and delighting me, and taking all the misery, and much of the weariness out of my monotonous toil. Very soon I loved them more than I can tell. They did not know much, but they were very wise, and seemed capable of learning anything.

the business of the universe is to make such a fool of you that you will know yourself for one, and so begin to be wise!

There are many things which a little learning, while it cannot really hide them, may make you less ready to see all at once

Well, papa, I sometimes wish you wouldn't explain things so much. I seem to understand you all the time you are preaching, but when I try the text afterwards by myself, I can't make anything of it, and I've forgotten every word you said about it. Perhaps that is because you have no right to understand it. I thought all Protestants had a right to understand every word of the Bible, she returned. If they can

For a man to be his own schoolmaster, is a right dangerous position; the pupil cannot be expected to make progress—except, indeed, in the wrong direction.

A library can't be made all at once, any more than a house, or a nation, or a great tree: they must all take time to grow, and so must a library...Folk must make acquaintance among books as they would among living folk.

God lets men have their playthings, like the children they are, that they may learn to distinguish them from true possessions. If they are not learning that, he takes them from them, and tries the other way: for lack of them and its misery, they will perhaps seek the true!

If any one object that I have here imagined too much, I would remark, first, that the records in the Gospel are very brief and condensed; second, that the germs of a true intelligence must lie in this small seed, and our hearts are the soil in which it must unfold itself; third, that we are bound to understand the story, and that the foregoing are the suppositions on which I am able to understand it in a manner worthy of what I have learned concerning Him.

You are a slow learner, Winston. How can I help it? How can I help but see what is in front of my eyes? Two and two are four. Sometimes, Winston. Sometimes they are five. Sometimes they are three. Sometimes they are all of them at once. You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane.

Stupidity was as necessary as intelligence, and as difficult to attain.

Perhaps a man really dies when his brain stops, when he loses the power to take in a new idea.

A generation of the unteachable is hanging upon us like a necklace of corpses.

Sanity was statistical. It was merely a question of learning to think as they thought.

There are books that one reads over and over again, books that become part of the furniture of one's mind and alter one's whole attitude to life, books that one dips into but never reads through, books that one reads at a single sitting and forgets a week later:

It is one of the tragedies of the half-educated that they develop late, when they are already committed to some wrong way of life.

There are books that one reads over and over again, books that become part of the furniture of one's mind and alter one's whole attitude to life, books that one dips into but never reads through, books that one reads at a single sitting and forgets a week later: and the cost, in terms of money, may be the same in each case.

If you hate violence and don't believe in politics, the only major remedy remaining is education.

The Spaniards are good at many things, but not at making war. All foreigners are alike appalled by their inefficiency, above all their maddening unpunctuality. The one word that no foreigner can avoid learning is mañana.

Until one has some kind of professional relationship with books, one does not discover how bad the majority of them are.

One can be granted intellectual liberty when one has no intellect.

The best books, he perceived, are those that tell you what you know already." ? George Orwell, 1984.

Los mejores libros son los que nos dicen lo que ya sabemos

and it is one of the tragedies of the half-educated that they develop late, when they are already committed to some wrong way of life

Les meilleurs livres sont ceux qui racontent ce que l'on sait déjà.