Quotes About Learning

Being a mother had taught her so much in such a short time. She'd never known all the colors and shapes that love could take, had never known her heart could be so full yet still have the capacity to expand.

I read books, …Like, all the time.

Real intelligence is a creative use of knowledge, not merely an accumulation of facts. The slow thinker who can finally come up with an idea of his own is more important to the world than a walking encyclopedia who hasn't learned how to use this information productively.

Drawing teaches habits of close observation that will always be useful.

Could soldiers read? Mr Norrell did not know. He turned with a look of desperate appeal to Childermass. Childermass shrugged.

You will do well to take advantage of Madame's short residence to get up your French a little... You will be glad of this, my dear, when you have reached France, where you will find they speak nothing else.

My teachers helped guide and motivate me but the responsibility of learning was left with me, an approach to learning which was later reinforced by my experiences at Amherst.

me, my Rebbe was the geologist of the soul. You see, there are so many treasures in the earth. There is gold, there is silver, and there are diamonds. But if you don't know where to dig, you'll only find dirt and rocks and mud. The Rebbe can tell you where to dig, and what to dig for, but the digging you must do yourself.

seemed constant, even as to old opinions. Shelly now held a master's degree from Notre

pie at the Red Lion, which cost pennies that they didn't have. The boys went off to play in the field at the back of the market garden with Martin Clackett, leaving Sue and Evie in peace to work. Evie watched and learned as her grandmother turned Josie Lambert's vast garment into

People Should not be protected from the world.. -It cripples them.

Algebra written across a blackboard hurts As a tight shoe hurts; it can't be walked in. Music, a song score, hurts, How far lies one note from another?

One never learns by success. Success is the plateau that one rests upon to take breath and look down from upon the straight and difficult path, but one does not climb upon a plateau.

Lack of education is an extraordinary handicap when one is being offensive.

It was shocking how little history remained with one after a good education.

Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.

Experience makes more timid men than it does wise ones.

It is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.

There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.

The trouble with people is not that they don't know but that they know so much that ain't so.

Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.

Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.

Experience is a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been.

Some folks as they grow older grow wise, but most folks simply grow stubborner.