Quotes About Learning

If you care about yourself, you should care about learning - even learning simple things. You come to have pride in yourself only by accomplishing things, even from fixing some old stairs...Others can't grant you self-respect, even others who care about you. You have to earn self-respect yourself.

Emotions are the end result, the sum, of things learned

Knowledge comes as it will. Life's lessons come at the most surprising times.

I don't know how good I'll be at teaching you. Seems I can't even teach you to call me Father.' She smiled shyly. 'Chase and Father mean the same thing to me.

He is teaching them to eat those seeds," she said through clenched teeth, "out of Raina and Berdine's hands. The two of them were giggling." – Cara

Zedd truly did scowl,now, You've a thing or two to learn, dear one, if you don't know how important fussing is. That be right, Adie said, Fussing keeps you sharp. When you get old, you need to stay sharp.

Third Time tricked, marks the fool.

Books served to keep hard-won knowledge safe. They endured.

It was important for a person not to let their body or mind become slow and dull. Oba believed it was important to learn new things. He believed it was important to grow. He thought it was important for a person to use what they had learned. That was how people grew.

all that could be hoped for was for each generation to be raised to be sensible enough to learn from the past, not to lose sight of the things that mattered, and to understand why they mattered.

He remembered Zedd telling him that old age meant that the only thing he really knew was that he would never know it all, much less know enough.

He wanted to know things, not reveal them.

You've a thing or two to learn, dear one, if you don't know how important fussing is.

Fussing keeps you sharp. When you get old, you need to stay sharp.

A book is read one page at a time. A shelf is read one book at a time. A library is read one shelf at a time.

Books served to keep hard-won knowledge safe. They endured. Books could almost be immortal.

Little things are a good place to start. Larger understanding is built on little things. We put those little things we learn together into larger concepts.

Just because knowledge exists, doesn't mean people know how to use it .

The sun has already set on the days we made those choices. We must concentrate on what we can do tomorrow; we can't relive yesterday.

That sounds like magic. There is not supposed to be any magic in Westland." "He says it's not; that anyone can learn. He's always trying to teach me. He mocks me whenever I say it looks like it will rain. His eyes get real big and he says, 'Magic! You must have magic, my boy, to read the clouds and know the future so.

No matter how much you know, there will always be more; no one knows everything.

The Wizard's Second Rule? What is that? Is it in the archives? Any student of magical lore should know it. The greatest harm can result from the best intentions. ...

He encouraged me to take one more deep puff and hold it in, so I did, and the smoke traveled down on top of my esophagus and then did a U-turn up into where my brain was supposed to be. At first it felt like fireworks, and then I began to feel like I was floating down a stream. I liked it. And I took another puff and studied my ass off. The next morning, however, I would fail my very first Spanish exam, because I would not remember how to conjugate anything except Abraham.

It should be obvious that I wasn't no honor roll student in high school. My favorite class was boys.