Quotes About Learning

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If a twenty-year-old is frightened of stoves in the same way he was as a two-year-old, we have a problem.

I was surviving school more than experiencing it.

I sit before flowers hoping they will train me in the art of opening up I stand on mountain tops believing that avalanches will teach me to let go I know nothing but I am here to learn.

I sit before flowers hoping they will train me in the art of opening up

To discover the thing you're brilliant at you first have to endure realizing all the things you're average at.

You better dust off your etiquette, better sit like you did back at whatever grade that made it clear to you that your teachers are not your parents, and that any mess you made remains your responsibility.

I am learning, and I believe I shall do quite well.

Why did people have to get their hearts broken before they learned who and what was good for them and who was bad for them?

Ah, now, don't cry over lost years and forgetfulness. The tales tell what they can. The rest is for us to learn..

Throwing herself into learning helped Miri ignore the painful chill of solitude around her.

Some people are born with the first word of a language resting on their tongue though it may take some time before they can taste it.

Once she'd thought all the knowledge in the world was contained in the princess academy's thirteen books. Now she faced thousands. She wondered if she should curtsy as if she were entering a chapel.

Miri took genuine comfort in studying Mathematics that day. She could sort numbers into two simple ideas: true and not true. Unlike numbers, words were rarely just one thing. They moved and changed, camouflaging and leaping out unexpectedly. Words were slippery and alive; words wrestled out of her grip and became something new. Words were dangerous.

Gerti didn't ask for help." Miri swallowed and tried to calm her quavering voice. "It was my fault." "So it was. Now you all have learned that those who speak out of turn choose punishment for themselves and anyone they speak to." "So if I speak to you, Tutor Olana, will you get the lashes?

Sometimes things aren't impossible the first time I try, because I don't know they're impossible yet. I probably couldn't do it again, though.

I'll be lucky if I can do as well as you when all this's done, just a bit out of breath, a bit bruised and scratched, a bit wiser and sadder for it all.

Becky, are you studying conversational Yiddish?

Think of learning as storing up supplies you may need for a harsh winter.

Raven mumbled something. "Eh? What was that? Speak up! Don't mumble like a caterpillar." "I said, I don't want to scare them." Baba Yaga picked up a blue spray bottle and squirted Raven in the face with water, making Raven blink. "This is how I train my cats not to jump up on my spell table. They learn after a while. Maybe you will, too.

Sometimes things aren't impossible the first time I try, because I don't know they're impossible yet.

Ah, now, don't cry over lost years and forgetfulness. The tales tell what they can. The rest is for us to learn. The question is, are we smart enough to figure for ourselves?

The point of education is to learn other ways too. Don't just assume that all you know is right. Learn more and then choose.

I'm not fascinated by one particular case, but by knowledge that I had no idea was out there.