Quotes About Learning

Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are not reversible when exposed to new knowledge.

Constant work, constant writing and constant revision. The real writer learns nothing from life. He is more like an oyster or a sponge. What he takes in he takes in normally the way any person takes in experience. But it is what is done with it in his mind, if he is a real writer, that makes his art.

Ronnie never stopped talking, even though he never had anything to say except what he had just read in the Reader's Digest, which he studied the way that Jefferson did Montesquieu.

It is my task always to know, particularly when I don't.

But it is possible to study until one has studied oneself deep into error.

Feed your head means read a book.

Remember what the Dormouse said, Feed Your Head!

There are small bits of useless knowledge which stick to one's brain like barnacles to a boat.

A brain was only capable of what it could conceive, and it couldn't conceive what it had never experienced

For writers it is always said that the first twenty years of life contain the whole of experience – the rest is observation

They had the comfort of not learning from experience.

There's nothing so heavy as books, sir--unless it's bricks.

In my school, he thought, they learn bitterness and frustration and how to grow old.

An artist paints his picture not in a few hours but in all the years of experience before he takes up the brush, and it is the same with failure.

I hope they don't repeat our mistake and invent the wheel.

A veces pienso que nuestra vida está hecha más por los libros que leemos que por la gente que conocemos: en los libros aprendemos, de segunda mano, qué es el amor y el dolor. Aun cuando tenemos la suerte de enamorarnos es porque nos hemos dejado influir por lo que hemos leído. Si yo no había llegado a conocer el amor, era porque en la biblioteca de mi padre faltaban los libros adecuados.

She had a lot to learn, in the way of books and music and how to dress and talk, but she would never have to learn humanity.

The more we know the more we love.

For writers it is always said that the first twenty years of life contain the whole of experience – the rest is observation – but I think it is equally true of us all.

There are small bits of useless knowledge which stick to one's brain like barnacles to

Graham Greene

When we turn from one brother, we turn from them all. Even when they have made a terrible mistake? Even then. We all make mistakes, lad. We need to appreciate them for what they are - lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, of course, but at least someone else can learn from that .

Too often we look back on our lives and wish we could have our time again. To do better, to do more, to walk the paths not taken. But I have loved and I have learned. I have done my best to pass on my experiences to others. And in that I have no regrets.

From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.