Quotes About Learning

The moment one learns English, complications set in.

Creo que mi especialidad está en escribir lo que no sé, pues no creo que solamente se debe escribir lo que se sabe. Y desconfío de los que en estas cuestiones pretenden saber mucho, claro y seguro.

Few are there that will leave the secure seclusion of the scholar's life, the peaceful walks of literature and learning, to stand out a target for the criticism of unkind and hostile minds.

If you desire information on some point of law, you are not likely to ponder over the ponderous tomes of legal writers in order to obtain the knowledge you seek, by your own unaided efforts.

Most of the worst errors I made in my life came from forgetting to act small.

Anyone not busy learning is busy dying. For as long as you foster a willingness to learn, you will ward off sclerosis of the brain and hardening of the mental arteries. Curiosity has led many a man and women into the valley of serious wealth.

Wisdom too often never comes, so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.

What is desperately needed ... is the skepticism and the sense of history that a liberal arts education provides.

The solitary traveler occupies a place of openness that becomes a place of radical empowerment, because learning begins in letting go, becoming vulnerable, feeling awkward and stupid, losing the self to find the self.

Life itself is a race, marked by a start and a finish. It is what we learn during the race, and how we apply it, that determines whether our participation has had particular value.

Grades were important in our house. I was reading by two. My mom would sit there and read with me, read with me, read with me. It was wonderful.

Ne leur apprends pas à scier si tu ne sais pas tenir une scie ; ne leur apprends pas à chanter si chanter t'ennuie ; ne te charge pas de leur apprendre à vivre si tu n'aimes pas la vie. (p. 23)

Dis-toi que l'éducation commencera le jour où l'atmosphère sera complètement débarrassée du moindre miasme de « sanction ». Et les plus difficiles à désinfecter seront peut-être les enfants. (p. 27)

Os livros ou, dizia o pai com sulcos de muito matutar na testa, os cabrões dos livros. O rapaz tinha contraído a febre de ler.

La necessidad e pobreza, la hambre. Que no ay mejor maestra en el mundo, no ay mejor despertadora e aviuadora de ingenios.

Del mismo modo que quien tuviese un libro donde estuviese toda la ciencia, no buscaría más que aprender ese libro; así también nosotros no necesitamos buscar más que a Cristo»

Las grandes desigualdades de nuestro siglo son las que separan a quienes saben y tienen acceso educativo a las fuentes el conocimiento de quienes necesitan la tutela informativa de los demás toda la vida

Education isn't for being something, boy: education is for enjoying whatever you are. The only thing you have to be in life is yourself.

Adorn thy mind with knowledge, for knowledge maketh thy worth.

Choose knowledge, if thou desirest a blessing from the Universal Provider; for the ignorant man cannot raise himself above the earth, and it is by knowledge that thou must render thy soul praiseworthy.

Don't say no to yesterday instead of yes to knowing it all.

Here, those kids are called nerds and geeks and dorks. This may be the only country where people make fun of the smart kids. Now that's stupid. I only hope that the engineer who built the bridge I drive across or the nurse who administers our vaccines or the teacher who teaches my kids was a total nerd.

I will never understand why most schools in America celebrate Halloween, effectively losing an entire day of education to prepare kids for collecting candy.

Ever since we had arrived in the United States, my classmates kept asking me about magic carpets. - They don't exist-I always said. I was wrong. Magic carpets do exist. But they are called library cards.