Quotes About Learning

But learn to take a little pride in yourself, kid! If there's anything I can teach you, it's how to be self-confident.

A few lessons, and you think you're through? We've barely begun. You are still a fool, Elend Venture- you just don't look like one anymore.

If that loss brings learning.

She fell because she was looking through the library's nonfriction section.) We

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." Her

Too many scholars think of research as purely a cerebral pursuit. If we do nothing with the knowledge we gain, then we have wasted our study. Books can store information better than we can—what we do that books cannot is interpret.

La medida de una persona no es cuánto ha vivido. No es lo fácilmente que salta ante un ruido o lo rápido que muestra sus emociones. Es cómo hace uso de lo que la vida le ha mostrado.

As for being young," I said, kneeling down, "yeah, I'm aware. Doesn't mean I haven't figured out a few things.

Unknowing ignorance is preferred to informed stupidity.

It becomes the responsibility of every man, upon realizing he lacks the truth, to seek it out. —From The Way of Kings, postscript

Shai's uncle Won had taught her that being bested was a rule of life. No matter how good you were, someone was better. Live by that knowledge, and you would never grow so confident that you became sloppy.

Syl used to think human children came out through the nose in a particularly violent sneeze

Elend smiled, recognizing the reference. Trentison's Supplying in Scale. A few years earlier, he would have agreed with Yomen, and the two would probably have spent the afternoon discussing the philosophy of leadership in Yomen's palace. However, Elend had learned things in the last few years that he simply hadn't been able to get form his studies.

So if you start at the center of the peak, you can see that for every five days you spend being average, you spend one day being mildly stupid and one day mildly smart. For every five of those, you spend one day moderately stupid and one day moderately genius. For every five days like that . . 

You must understand that he knew the risks of living in an undeveloped civilization. Creatures of lesser intelligence cannot be held responsible for their acts of barbarity. You have not yet learned a better way.

Why was it that scientists were so excited to discover facts that farmers had known for generations and generations?

Make friends with physicists and mathematicians, writers. It pays off.)

Vathah shut the door for her, then looked in the window. "Most men are idiots." "Nonsense," Shallan said, smiling. "By the law of averages, only half of them are." He grunted. She was learning to interpret those, which was essential to speaking Vathahese. This one roughly meant, "I'm not going to acknowledge that joke because it would spoil my reputation as a complete and utter dunnard.

Nothing would teach me but personal experience. I'm just going to have to muddle through these first few times.

Se aprende más del mal arte que del bueno, ya que tus errores importan más que tus éxitos.

Every scholar knew that one of the greatest dangers in research was the desire to find a specific answer.

There is a secret you must learn, child," Jasnah said. "A secret that is even more important than those relating to Shadesmar and spren. Power is an illusion of perception.

Tendríamos que enseñar a nuestros niños a ser más atentos, más inquisitivos. No solo a destruir, sino también a construir.

La experiencia en sí es la gran maestra, y a ella debéis recurrir sin intermediarios.