Quotes About Learning

Jews became the people whose heroes were teachers, whose citadels were schools, and whose passion was study and the life of the mind.

the one thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history.

Know that prophecy does not help in-depth study of the meanings of the Torah

Understanding – religious understanding – comes from the willingness to be challenged.

I'm less worried about accomplishment - as younger people always can't help but be - and more concerned with spending my time well, spending time with my family, and reading, learning things.

not to a baby when

Gee, I am a complete Luddite when it comes to computers, I can barely log on!

Their first stop, naturally, was the library.

You don't think it's unheard of, do you, for apprentices to try too much, too soon? It often marks out those with the most talent. Arthur is livid, but he is also impressed, I can tell. I think you should confide fully in him; throw yourself on his mercy. He will like that.

Don't set your wit against a child.

For, what though his Head be empty, provided his Common place-Book be full...

...have the same Use with Burning-Glasses, to collect the diffus'd Rays of Wit and Learning in Authors, and make them point with Warmth and Quickness upon the Reader's Imagination.

As boys do sparrows, with flinging salt upon their tails.

Books, the children of the brain.

We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking.

The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.

I'll tell you the same thing I told your father. We make mistakes. They don't make us. If they did, we'd all be royally fucked, especially a coupe of assholes like us." I grin at his last remark, and finally find some words to say, even though I'm not sure I possess the conciliatory feelings to match my town. "You could learn a lot from an asshole." Dugan smiles at that, and it's the first time I've ever seen him do it. "I guess so.

There is a sense of violation in learning that, unbeknownst to me, my mind has maintained such a strong connection with the town, as if my brain's been sneaking around behind my back.

The reason wisdom is meant to be imparted is because you acquire it only after it's too late to apply to yourself.

It occurs to hi that what he has failed to impart through wisdom, he may well have imparted through stupidity.

I'm still shy - I'm no good at my children's parent-teacher conferences, and I'm slowly learning how to ask for what I want. But I now know that I have a reserve of courage to draw upon when I really need it. There's nothing that I'm too scared to have a go at.

One thing is certain, no novice should ever begin her social career by attempting a formal dinner, any more than a pupil swimmer, upon being able to take three strokes alone, should attempt to swim three miles out to sea.

A land which does not remember its history can never learn the lessons of its past.

Knowledge is power, but powerless If you've got it and you do not acknowledge it