Quotes About Learning

Esiste una diversità fra dolore e sofferenza: ciò che impariamo dal dolore - per esempio, che il fuoco scotta ed è pericoloso - è sempre individuale, mentre ciò che impariamo dalla sofferenza ci affratella, ci fa sentire parte della razza umana. Se sperimentiamo solo dolore, senza sofferenza, ciò che impariamo serve solo a noi stessi. Il dolore senza sofferenza è come una vittoria senza battaglia

That was one lesson he should've learned the first time. We don't, of course. It's okay, Karla once said, because if we all learned what we should learn, the first time round, we wouldn't need love at all.

Mistakes are like bad loves, the more you learn from them, the more you wish they'd never happened.

We can't really know what a pleasure it is to run in our own language until we're forced to stumble in someone else's.

Of course, what we know about the universe, and our place in it, is constantly changing as we add more information and gain new insights.

We can't really know what a pleasure it is to run in our own language until we're forced to stumble in someone else's.

Nothing in any life, no matter how well or poorly lived, is wiser than failure or clearer than sorrow.

the student is ready, the teacher appears—

Nothing in any life, no matter how well or poorly lived, is wiser than failure or clearer than sorrow. And

It's okay, Karla once said, because if we all learned what we should learn, the first time round, we wouldn't need love at all.

I think it is a part of growing up, learning to control our suffering.

You learn something or you feel something completely new, when you break your heart that way, she said. Something that only you can know or feel in that way.

the student is ready, the teacher appears—do

But first you need the theory, before you can make a profit from the practice.

We need both Socrates and Aristotle in the search for knowledge, but in education today there is too much Aristotle and too little Socrates.

I may not know how to fly but I know how to read, and that's almost the same thing.

I learned failure early and mastered it.

Of course. You get everything from books.

And a puzzle is for the piecing together, especially for the young, who still believe it can be done.

Light will blind us in time, but what we learn in the dark can see us through.

I learned to fly on a broom, he said, rolling up his sleeves. I can learn to milk a goat, I bet. Though flying on a broom proved to be the easier task, he found.

Imagine if baseball were taught the way science is taught in most inner-city schools. Schoolchildren would get lectures about the history of the World Series. High school students would occasionally reproduce famous plays of the past. Nobody would get in the game themselves until graduate school.

I had a great time at school. The experience was quite fulfilling, especially going to the World Series.

Class I to XII wasn't much help; I was always a mediocre student. But when I pursued higher education and studied economics with theatre or psychology with science fiction, I got a whole new world view.