Quotes About Learning

In most cases learning something essential in life requires physical pain.

Everybody has to start somewhere. You have your whole future ahead of you. Perfection doesn't happen right away.

Mental acuity was never born from comfortable circumstances.

I guess I don't really understand you yet,' I said. 'I'm not all that smart. It takes me a while to understand things. But if I do have time, I will come to understand you -- better than anyone else in the world ever can.

It is the same with anything - you have to learn through your own experience, paying your own way. You can't learn it from a book.

There were times he thought it would have been far better to never have known. Yet he continued to return to his core principle: that, in every situation, knowledge was better than ignorance. However agonizing, it was necessary to confront the facts. Only through knowing could a person become strong.

Ever since I was little my mother had told me, if you don't know something, go to the library and look it up.

El conocimiento de la verdad no alivia la tristeza que sentimos al perder a un ser querido. Ni la verdad, ni la sinceridad, ni la fuerza, ni el cariño son capaces de curar esa tristeza. Lo único que puede hacerse es atravesar este dolor esperando aprender algo de él, aunque todo lo que uno haya aprendido no le sirva para nada la próxima vez que la tristeza lo visite de improviso.

However miserable your situation, there is always something to learn.

Your brain is made to think about difficult things. To help you get to a point where you understand something that you didn't understand at first. And that becomes the cream of your life. The rest is boring and worthless.

Of course you keep telling yourself there's something to be learned from everything, and growing old shouldn't be that hard. That's the general drift.

Certain kinds of knowledge rob people of their sleep.

To be able to grasp something of value, sometimes you have to perform seemingly inefficient acts.

As long as an individual's alive, he will undergo experience in some form or other, and those experiences are stored up instant by instant. To stop experiencin' is to die.

The facts and techniques or whatever they teach you in class isn't going to be very useful in the real world, that's for sure.

Whenever she came across lines she liked, she'd mark them in pencil and commit them to memory as if they were Holy Writ.

Pero el principio de que el saber está por encima de la ignorancia en cualquier situación constituía la base de su manera de pensar y su postura ante la vida. Por muy doloroso que resultase, debía saberlo. Porque sólo el saber fortalece a las personas.

It's important in life to get used to losing.

From elementary school up to college I was never interested in things I was forced to study. I told myself it was something that had to be done, I only began to enjoy studying after I got through the educational system and became a so-called member of society. If something interested me, and I could study it at my own pace and approach it the way I liked, I was pretty efficient at acquiring knowledge and skills.

The most important thing we ever learn at school is the fact that the most important things can't be learned at school.

Selama punya sikap untuk mau belajar dari berbagai hal, maka tiap bertambah usia tentu tidak begitu terasa menyakitkan

Grandfather always said school's a place where they take sixteen years to wear down your brain. Grandfather hardly went to school either.

every situation, knowledge was better than ignorance. However agonizing, it was necessary to confront the facts. Only through knowing could a person become strong.

Devouring books came as naturally to us as breathing.