Quotes About Learning

The older I grow, the more I am convinced that there is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatus that is equal to that which can be gotten from contact with great men and women.

Uno llega a ser grande por lo que lee y no por lo que escribe.

Moins on a de connaissances, plus on a de convictions.

All these twelve years of secondary school and university, Yura had studied classics and religion, legends and poets, the sciences of the past and of nature, as if it were all the family chronicle of his own house, his own genealogy.

Mieux vaudrait apprendre à faire l'amour correctement que de s'abrutir sur un livre d'histoire.

Bir tarih kitab?n?n üzerinde bunalmaktansa doÄŸru dürüst seviÅŸmeyi öÄŸrenmek mübaht?r.

Qu'est-ce que vous faites dans la vie, vous? demanda le professeur. - J'apprends des choses (...)

Siz ne iÅŸ yapars?n?z? diye sordu Profesör -Birtak?m ÅŸeyler öÄŸrenirim, dedi Colin. Ve de Chloe'yi severim.

The past may not hurt you, but it won't challenge you, either.

I know the power of discovery.

Ravenclaw, Andy would say to anyone who asked.

Religions were supposed to represent tolerance. But just like everything else in life, Harvarth had learned, it wasn't necessarily the philosophy that was flawed, but rather the human beings who were trying to interpret it.

But just like everything else in life, Harvath had learned, it wasn't necessarily the philosophy that was flawed, but rather the human beings who were trying to interpret it.

Knowledge didn't equal power, it was the proper application of knowledge that equal power. And when applied in a very precise manner, knowledge could also equal incredible wealth. - The Troll

We learn of great things by little experiences.

Perhaps at the end the little things may teach us most.

Perhaps I may gain more knowledge out of the folly of this madman than I shall from the teaching of the most wise.

There was a tall, sensible man in the room called Thorpe, a gentleman with very little magical learning, but a degree of common sense rare in a magician.

Upon my word, there is nothing in the world so easy to explain as failure – it is, after all, what every body does all the time.

Strange a quite extraordinary number of books to read, and said that he expected him to have read them by the end of the week.

There was a tall, sensible man in the room called Thorpe, a gentleman with very little magical learning, but a degree of common sense rare in a magician. He

Childermass laughed. "You are right, Vinculus. You are not like the others. That is my life – there on the table. But you cannot read it. You are a strange creature – the very reverse of all the magicians of the last centuries. They were full of learning but had no talent. You have talent and no knowledge. You cannot profit by what you see.

Books and papers are the basis of good scholarship and sound knowledge," declared Mr Norrell primly. "Magic is to be put on the same footing as the other disciplines.

There are books about magic and there are books of magic, and the price of the latter is far above rubies.