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Quotes About Learning

There is, it seems to us, At best, only a limited value In the knowledge derived from experience. The knowledge imposes a pattern, and falsifies, For the pattern is new in every moment.
~ T.S. Eliot
Where is the wisdom? We lost in knowledge Where is the wisdom we lost in knowledge? ?????
~ T.S. Eliot
Experience came easily enough, learning how not to suffer would have proved much more practical.
~ Tad Williams
Never make your home in a place," the old man had said, too lazy in the spring warmth to do more than wag a finger. "Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You'll find what you need to furnish it—memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things.
~ Tad Williams
Welcome to the Information Jungle.
~ Tad Williams
I am a scholar. My only monarch is truth.
~ Tad Williams
A book, you see, is the only kind of trap that keeps its captive—which is knowledge—alive forever.
~ Tad Williams
Never make your home in a place," the old man had said, too lazy in the spring warmth to do more than wag a finger. "Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You'll find what you need to furnish it—memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things." Morgenes had grinned. "That way it will go with you wherever you journey. You'll never lack for a home—unless you lose your head, of course . .
~ Tad Williams
and everywhere books, books, books
~ Tad Williams
It's a lot harder being smart than it is being stupid.
~ Tad Williams
Never make your home in a place. Make a home for yourself inside your head. You'll find what you need to furnish it - memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things. That way it will go with you wherever you journey. You'll never lack for a home - unless you lose your head, of course...
~ Tad Williams
Books,' Morgenes said grandly, leaning back on his precarious stool, '--books are magic. That is the simple answer. And books are traps as well.' 'Magic? Traps?' 'Books are a form of magic--' the doctor lifted the volume he had just laid on the stack, '--because they span time and distance more surely by any spell or charm.
~ Tad Williams
Xabbu was taught by his people to absorb everything the world gives him and then, after sifting out the most important details, to act on them. But he is also clever and supremely flexible. Faced with a new world, he did not try to force it to comply with his expectations, but began all over to learn the rules, without prejudice as to where the information came from.
~ Tad Williams
Better the devil's tongue to argue and question than a silent tongue and an empty head.
~ Tad Williams
Never make your home in a place. Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You'll find what you need to furnish it--memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things. That way it will go with you wherever you journey. You'll never lack for a home--unless you lose your head, of course...
~ Tad Williams
Never make your home in a place. Make a home for yourself in your own head. You'll find what you need to furnish it - memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things. This way it will go with you wherever you journey
~ Tad Williams
Never make your home in a place," the old man had said, too lazy in the spring warmth to do more than wag a finger. "Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You'll find what you need to furnish it—memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things." Morgenes had grinned. "That way it will go with you wherever you journey. You'll never lack for a home—unless you lose your head, of course . . .
~ Tad Williams
The ability to tell a good route from a terrible one is a valuable skill when leading an expedition. Unfortunately for us all, it was a skill I did not possess.
~ Tahir Shah
My journey to the land of the Shuar tribe had taught me the importance of practical gifts.
~ Tahir Shah
Much travel is needed before a raw man is ripened. Arab
~ Tahir Shah
Experiencing this first level of suffering is inevitable. But the second level of suffering comes when we reject the first level, or when we deprive ourselves of basic human needs like exercise and learning and friendship, or when we fail to seize the moment and appreciate all that we have.
~ Tal Ben-Shahar
Apprendre tout au long de sa vie, c'est développer pleinement la sagesse qui vient normalement avec l'âge.
~ Tal Ben-Shahar
I know how to boil water, that doesn't make me a gourmet chef.
~ Tami Hoag
Vi?u sav? zi?? nomierin?ja atrašan?s šaj?, lielaj?, drošaj?, skaistaj? ?k?, kura bija pilna ar to, kas vi?am patika, - ar gr?mat?m. Vi?u iesk?va zin?šanas, gudr?ba, saj?sma, nosl?pumi, kas pieder?ja vi?am par niec?gu cenu- prasmi las?t v?rdus.
~ Tami Hoag