Quotes About Learning

Maturity would have been a big help, but that didn't come until later.

A man is what he himself does, what he thinks, what he learns, his own skills.

Qué narrador no quiere oír historias nuevas? Las viejas nos consuelan y las nuevas nos enseñan. Necesitamos tanto las unas como las otras. Me parece que hay algo que no has comprendido. Tú y yo somos narradores y escuchamos para aprender. La gente sólo presta atención para vivir las historias. Tus relatos sobre K'os son buenos, pero ¿quién desea convertirse en K'os? ¿Te gustaría a ti ser ella?

It helps to remember that in love, mistakes are inevitable. We all sometimes miss our loved ones' calls for closeness. We all find ourselves distracted. We all get stuck in our own fear or anger and fail to catch loved ones as they fall. There is no perfect soul mate, no flawless lover. We are all stumbling around, treading on each other's toes as we are learning to love.

Regrets don't help anything.

We will teach you about our God and you will teach us about yours, and together we'll find the God that exists behind them.

Return to your longing. It will teach you everything.

Every person on the face of the earth makes mistakes, Lily. Every last one. We're all so human.

My mauma was shrewd. She didn't get any reading and writing like me. Everything she knew came from living on the scarce side of mercy.

Later I would read Ursula K. Le Guin's comment: I am a slow unlearner. But I love my unteachers.

After you get stung, you can't get unstung no matter how much you whine about it.

It's my earliest memory: arranging my brother's marbles into words. It is summer, and I am beneath the oak that stands in the back corner of the work yard. Thomas, ten, whom I love above all the others, has taught me nine words: SARAH, GIRL, BOY, GO, STOP, JUMP, RUN, UP, DOWN. He has written them on a parchment and given me a pouch of forty-eight glass marbles with which to spell them out, enough to shape two words at a time.

He's over your head!" He was, but naturally I'd flung myself into the Sea of Voltaire anyway and emerged with nothing more than several aphorisms.

Regrets don't help anything, you know that.

didn't know Amen from what when

He learned well, and his suffering didn't harden him. It's always a marvel when one's pain doesn't settle into bitterness, but brings forth kindness instead.

We will teach you about our God and you will teach us about yours, and together we'll find the God that exists behind them

We will teach you about our God and you will teach us about yours, and together we'll find the God that exist behind them.

A More Resourceful Reprimand.

Everything I knew about rape I'd learned from the Scriptures.

Up till I was eight or so, I thought the grandeurs was a shitting sickness.

Hardly anyone knew what country had first landed men on the moon, despite the fact that they were science and technology majors. Asked what year computers had been invented, most had no idea; it was only after much consultation that one team ventured a guess: 1870.

they did not like to volunteer answers during class. These were excellent students. They prepared so thoroughly that it often seemed pointless to go over their homework. The margins of their textbooks were filled with scribbled notes. Yet they hesitated before raising their hands. When I would call on them, they would immediately get up to answer, but volunteering seemed foreign to them.

licited from spirits; it cannot be obtained inductively from experience, nor by any