Quotes About Learning

Books are still the main yardstick by which I measure true wealth.

I am not wise, but I can always learn.

Without reading, we are all without light in the dark, without fire in the cold.

Briar: They never tell you some things. They tell you mages have wonderful power and they learn all kinds of secrets. Nobody ever mentions that some secrets you don't ever want to learn. Rosethorn: All you can do is learn good to balance the bad. Learn and do all the good within your reach. Then, if you wake in a sweat, you have something to set against the dream.

The first thing every mage should learn is that magic makes fools of us. Now you may call yourself a mage. You have learned the most important lesson.

Faithful: When will you learn to leave well enough alone? Alanna sighed. When I want to stop learning, I guess.

Don't you ever get tired of asking questions?' 'Never. They're mother's milk to me.

New learning never hurt anybody.

You're brave, to admit you don't know everything and then do something about it.

Being all of thirteen, of course you should be omniscient

Scrying the wind is very difficult, Tris," Niko said gently. "It's like scrying the future. You're assailed with thousands of images — fragments, really. It drives many who try it insane." "You learned to scry the future," Tris pointed out. "And a number of people have informed me they think I am mad," Niko replied, his voice very dry.

Someday I must read this scholar everyone

But I've only been at this mage business four years. I have some catching up to do—

Face it," Gary told her kindly. "You'll never catch up. You just do as much as you can and take the punishments without saying anything. Sometimes I wonder if that isn't what they're really trying to teach us—to take plenty and keep our mouths shut.

You've learned to hate. Now you must learn to forgive, or you'll have enemies at your back forever. He looked my straight in the eyes. That will be hard. The harder the goal, the more important it is, I said.

no matter how we go about it, we are never poorer for the experiences that teach us how to write our own manuals.

The kind of teacher who never learned anything herself. Or taught anything, except sarcasm or fear.

This was where his happiness lay, to sit in the great library and to read all things.

Who does not know?

I have come back into the desert in sore need of the disciplines I once learned here, things which fail me from lack of practice.

Buy books. Unlike high calorie food, they don't give heart attacks.

The other hardest thing vampires, our kind has to learn, beside control:] That, and how to hide what we are without becoming less than we are.

Sometimes we win with greater firepower, through sheer numbers or more powerful weapons, but for the most part it's knowledge that defines our victories.

If anyone asked, they were home schooling Jack, which had the added benefit of being the truth, even if lessons tended toward it's a bus, you can't fight it rather than algebra.