Quotes About Learning

To begin an ethnographic project with a goal, with an object of research and a set of presumptions, is already to stymie the process of discovery; it blocks one's ability to learn something new that exceed the frameworks with which one enters.

Their daddy was fond of saying that mistakes weren't sins. The sin was not to learn from them.

Look at your life as your main career and your divine classroom.

Faith, my dear son, doesn't keep us from doing stupid things.

Each trial we experience, each of life's scars, can only mature us if we allow them to do so

There comes a time when we aren't allowed not to know.

we should never grow so old, or change so much, that we cannot find room in our hearts for the wisdom of children's books.

Chega um tempo em que não nos é permitido não saber.

I loved to read, and I think any child who loves to read will read anything, including the back of the cereal box, which I did every morning.

I get sillier as I get older, so I don't know what wisdom means. I can only pass on something that I've been acquainted with and let whomever it is pick the bones out of it.

I thought I was learning about show business. The more painful it was, the more important I thought the experience must be. Hating it, I convinced myself it must be invaluable.

When I think of all the books still left for me to read, I am certain of further happiness.

Posterity! Why should people be less stupid tomorrow than they are today?

When I think of all the books still left for me to read, I am certain of future happiness.

M?n h?r ?eyi öyr?nm?y?, h?yatdan geri qalmama?a el? can at?rd?m ki, ax?rda mehrimni h?rfl?ri iri, a? yerl?ri çox olan nazik kitablara sald?m; ?n yax?? c?h?ti d? budur ki, h?min kitablar? el? ordaca kitabxana r?fin? qoyub dig?r cildi oxuma?a ba?lama qmümkündür.

We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let them wear out by being read.

It's impossible to gather too much information.

ancient variety of views on ethics and on knowledge – how we can come to engage with the ancients in a respectful but critical way, both disagreeing with them and learning from them.

We always learn to be virtuous in a given context; there is no such thing as just learning to be generous or loyal in the abstract.

many ways of teaching Stoicism; where you begin depends on the audience's level of interest and expertise.

But do you know how old I will be by the time I learn to really play the piano / act / paint / write a decent play?" Yes . . . the same age you will be if you don't.

You'll never know everything about anything, especially something you love.

When I got to France I realized I didn't know very much about food at all. I'd never had a real cake. I'd had those cakes from cake mixes or the ones that have a lot of baking powder in them. A really good French cake doesn't have anything like that in it - it's all egg power.

I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate.