Quotes About Learning

You're young," Teft said. "I'm old." "That makes you wiser, presumably?" "Damnation no. The only thing it proves is that I've more experience staying alive than you.

You are inexperienced. So was I, once. So is every man. The measure of a person is not how much they have lived. . . It's in how they make us of what life has shown them.

There were books involved.

The only reason to be subservient to those with power is so that you can learn to someday take what they have. Reen's words.

An easy life taught one very little.

Some mistakes, though, you can't fix by being sorry. Can't fix them, no matter what you do.

I had Eondel teach me," Raoden said. "Back when I was trying to find ways to prove that my father's laws were foolish. Eondel chose fencing becausehe thought it would be most useful to me, as a politician. I never figured I'd end up using it to keep my wife from slicing me to pieces.

Lightsong had never bothered to learn the rules. He found it more amusing to play when he had no idea what he was doing.

So long as we do not depend on the facts entirely, incomplete knowledge is better than complete ignorance. --Egwene al'Vere

Books can store information better than we can—what we do that books cannot is interpret. So if one is not going to draw conclusions, then one might as well just leave the information in the texts.

Those who truly seek wisdom are those who will acknowledge the virtue in their adversaries and who will learn from those who disabuse them of error.

You want to be competent? she thought. You want to learn to be in control of what goes on around you, rather than just being pushed around? Then you'll have to learn to deal with failure.

You…can ride a bike, can't you?" "Sure I can," I said, getting onto one of the squeaky things. "At least I used to be able to. Haven't done it in years, but it's like riding a bike, right?" "Technically, yes.

If nobody asked questions, then we would never learn anything.

Unapplied knowledge benefited no one.

What you haven't realized before is that all libraries are far more dangerous than you've always assumed.

Ignorance may reside in a man hiding from intelligence, but scholarship can seem ignorance hidden behind intelligence.

Failure is the mark of a life well lived. In turn, the only way to live without failure is to be of no use to anyone. Trust me, I've practiced.

It seems to me that now—suffering in the darkness that might just be the end of everything—is when we need knowledge the most.

You are inexperienced. So was I, once. So is every man. The measure of a person is not how much they have lived. It is not how easily they jump at a noise or how quick they are to show emotion. It's in how they make use of what life has shown them.

We can't know everything - and some of what we think we know is going to turn out to be false.

But here's the thing. The lies we tell, the dreams we create, they're not real. We can't let them be real. This might be the hardest lesson you have to learn.

Cuz in my experience, marryin' is the one thing people seem to get worse at the more they do it. Well, that and bein' alive.

Jasnah raised an eyebrow. "You will find wise men in any religion, Shallan, and good men in every nation. Those who truly seek wisdom are those who will acknowledge the virtue in their adversaries and who will learn from those who disabuse them of error. All others—heretic, Vorin, Ysperist, or Maakian—are equally closed-minded.