Quotes About Learning

A little arrogance (or even a lot) isn't such a bad thing, although your mother undoubtedly told you different. Mine did. Pride goeth before a fall, Stephen, she said... and then I found out - right around the age that is 19 x 2 - that eventually you fall down, anyway.

All I can say in my own defense is quot libros, quam breve tempus—so many books, so little time (and yes, I have the tee-shirt).

But I'm going, because all I've ever gotten and all I have now is somehow due to what we did then, and you pay for what you get in this world. Maybe that's why God made us kids first and built us close to the ground, because He knows you got to fall down a lot and bleed a lot before you learn that one simple lesson. You pay for what you get, you own what you pay for . . . and sooner or later whatever you own comes back home to you.

When you're still too young to shave, optimism is a perfectly legitimate response to failure.

Smart people know a lot, and maybe that makes them think they know everything.

When the pupil is ready, the teacher will appear. I was your teacher.

College was for people who didn't know they were smart.

Learning itself is a present, you know. The best one anybody can give or get.

Perhaps kids really did come into the world trailing clouds of glory, as Wordsworth had so confidently proclaimed, but they also shit in their pants until they learned better.

You don't own a thing unless you can give it up, what does it profit a man, it profits him nothing, it profits him zilch, and you don't learn that in school, you learn it on the road, you learn it from Ferd Janklow, and Wolf, and Richard going head-first into the rocks like a Titan II that didn't fire off right.

writing couldn't really be taught, only learned.

Too much knowledge isn't good for a person. I know that now.

If you want to write, you write. The only way to learn to write is by writing.

the scholar's greatest weakness: calling hesitation research.

The only stupid question, my cullies, is the one you don't ask.

if you reach the age of twenty-five or thirty without knowing how to spell (TOTALLY, not TODILLY), or capitalize in the proper places (White House, not white-house), or write a sentence containing both a noun AND a verb, you're probably never going to know.

Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.

Me cae bien la gente que lee libros, y no sólo porque yo solía escribirlos. Los lectores de libros están tan dispuestos como cualquiera a iniciar una conversación con el tema del tiempo, pero son capaces de pasar de ahí.

Look for the failures in your successes and the successes in your failures.

ignorance to a certain degree can be corrected but, it shall always be an effort in futility to correct a certain degree of ignorance!

If you know the road is steepy with many potholes and curves ahead, you will be informed to drive the car at a required speed. Knowledge is a guide you need to make choices in life.

We have may teachers, animal, vegetable and mineral

Yoga and books are the only way out.

The greatest curse in life that one can acquire is REGRET.