Quotes About Learning

The elf motioned Pug toward a gigantic platform. "There is much you must learn. A year shall you abide with us, and when you leave, you will come to power and understanding you only glimpse now. Without that teaching, you will not be able to survive the coming battle. With it, you may save two worlds.

Robert had taught him to keep his thoughts in the present or near future, for as Robert had told him, To dwell in the past is to live in regret.

Culture is ordinary: that is the first fact. Every human society has its own shape, its own purposes, its own meanings. Every human society expresses these, in institution, and in arts and learning. The making of a society is the finding of common meanings and directions, and its growth is an active debate and amendment under the pressures of experience, contact, and discovery, writing themselves into the land.

In a field like philosophy, where understanding involves not so much the reception of knowledge but rather a transformation of the receiver itself, so that the receiver, which is to say the student, can generate the knowledge for him- or herself, then the physical presence of the teacher is essential.

People don't grow old. When they stop growing, they become old.

We know less when we erroneously think we know than when we recognize that we don't.

If it's not clear enough in the piece, I love it when people things to me they know and I'm interested in but don't yet know. It's when they explain things to me I know and they don't that the conversation goes awry.

Reading is also traveling, with the eyes along the length of an idea, which can be folded up into the compressed space of a book and unfolded within your imagination and your understanding.

You furnish your mind with readings in somewhat the same way you furnish a house with books.

We know less when we erroneously think we know than when we recognize that we don't...the language of bold assertion is simpler, less taxing, than the language of nuance and ambiguity and speculation.

Everyone is influenced by those things that precede formal education, that come out of the blue and out of everyday life.

Jewish tradition holds that some questions are more significant than their answers.

Mamma was aware that there were many people who read what she called trashy books, but it was news to her that there were people who read nothing at all.

What can I say? Librarians rule.

Through my failures I have learned how to live - and the more I failed, the more I learned. In my search for the limits, I have failed more than most, and it is this that has made me successful, over and over again.

L'essentiel est de lire beaucoup. N'importe quoi. Ce qu'on a envie de lire. Le tri se fait après. Et même la mauvaise littérature est nourricière. La seule littérature stérilisante, la littérature prétentieuse, philosophisante, cuistre, est sans danger pour les enfants parce qu'ils ne peuvent pas pénétrer dedans. Ils la rejettent, comme ils tournent le bouton de la T.V. au moment des discours politiques. Ce sont des sages.

Ce qui s'apprend sans peine ne vaut rien et ne demeure pas.

Le lycée ne fut plus qu'un immense vaisseau bouillonnant de la joie furieuse de dix mille enfants qui venaient de retrouver leur jeunesse.

I imagine he knows magic, if he is reading books.

As the ninth-century legal scholar Malik ibn Anas, founder of the Maliki school of law, once quipped, "This religion is a science, so pay close attention to those from whom you learn it.

The secret? If we have a cardinal strategy that forms the bedrock for all our practices, it may be this: Ask why. Ask it all the time, ask it any day, every day, and always ask it three times in a row.

At times, intuition can lead to mistakes, although maybe less often than numbers-based decision-making. We've made our share of intuitive mistakes at Semco. Life is full of mistakes. But you won't catch me subscribing to the new age management mantra—to err is human, but erring twice is not so hot. I don't buy the notion that we must carefully study our mistakes in order not to repeat them.

Richard A. LaFleur

15. Lbers rud. (lber as adj. means free, but in the m. pl. it can also = children.—rudi, rudre, rudv, rudtum, to instruct, train, educate; a wonderful etymology, meaning lit. to get someone ex/ out of being rudis/ rough, crude, unpolished—so, gentle reader, learn Latin, cease to be "rude," become "erudite," and rejoice in your "erudition"!)