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Quotes About Learning

the more we learn, the less and less motive we find for suicide? But for murder, we begin to have a surprising collection of motives!
~ Agatha Christie
You are a philosopher mademoiselle. This implies a detached attitude. I think my attitude is more selfish. I have learned to save myself from useless emotion.
~ Agatha Christie
The popular idea that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea which has been impressed on them in very tender years.
~ Agatha Christie
Toat? lumea se a?teapt? ca educa?ia s? fie un drept fundamental ?i nu pun mare pre? pe ea când o primesc!
~ Agatha Christie
Girls are foolish things.
~ Agatha Christie
You must be more careful Mademoiselle. He is out of date you comprehend. He just returned from those great clear open spaces, etc., and he has yet to learn the language of nowadays.
~ Agatha Christie
Everyone's doing research now days, said Tuppence. You know. All the teenagers and all ones nephews or cousins or other people's sons and daughters. They're all doing research. I don't know what actually they do research into nowadays but they never seem to do it whatever it is afterwards. They just have the research and a good time doing research and they're very pleased with themselves and well I don't quite know what does come next.
~ Agatha Christie
The old, you must remember, though considered incapable of action, have nevertheless a good fund of experience on which to draw.
~ Agatha Christie
You shall know all that I know, but I would prefer that you should come at the truth by your own efforts — not by my leading you by the hand.
~ Agatha Christie
You are a philosopher, Mademoiselle." "That implies a detached attitude. I think my attitude is more selfish. I have learned to save myself useless emotion.
~ Agatha Christie
About Nora Broad} Miss Marple: Was she a girl that did well in school and all that? Mrs. Black: No she wasn't, heh... She was idle, and she wasn't too clever to books either. No, she was "all for the boys." From the time she was twelve years old, onwards.
~ Agatha Christie
A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
~ Agnes de Mille
I learned three important things in college — to use a library, to memorize quickly and visually, to drop asleep at any time given a horizontal surface and fifteen minutes.
~ Agnes de Mille
Of all the pitfalls in our paths and the tremendous delays and wanderings off the track I want to say that they are not what they seem to be. I want to say that all that seems like fantastic mistakes are not mistakes, all that seems like error is not error; and it all has to be done. That which seems like a false step is the next step.
~ Agnes Martin
It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning.
~ Agnes Repplier
THE ONE WHO KNEW said, "Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven." Happy, that is, are those people who know that their spirituality is small, that their creeds are imperfect, that their instruction concerning God and man is incomplete. Happy are those who know that they do not know all of truth. For only those who admit their spiritual poverty are willing to learn.
~ Agnes Sanford
Seek knowledge even if it's in MACS0647-JD.
~ Ahmad F. Hedayat
Don't use " backspace " every moment ,, because every time you do ,, you kill a space !!
~ Ahmed Hussein
The hardest thing to open is a closed mind. (quoted 2017-12-30 in the Toronto Daily Star)
~ Ahmed Kathrada
People aren't stupid. They're ignorant.
~ Ahmed Korayem
The mind, unlike a box, cannot simply filled whatever that you wish and then remove it once you decide it's a hazard leaving it unscathed. Rather, it's like a living being and what you put inside it gets ingested and assimilated. It becomes a part of it and to remove it takes a tremendous amount of consistent work and dedication only to realize that it was best not to have taken whatever it is in to begin with.
~ Ahmed Korayem
To share wisdom with the immature is like giving goldbricks to a child.
~ Ahmed Korayem
Being a student is like someone behind the bars, only those who burn the midnight oil will get the certificate of freedom.
~ Ahmed Omaar
Ha ka noqon goobaha waxbarashada macmiil joogto ah! Noqo mid ka midho dhaliya hadafka ardaynimo.
~ Ahmed Omaar