Quotes About Learning

If somebody could write a book for people who never read they would make a fortune

I think Linda realized there and then what it took me years to learn, that the behaviour of civilized man really has nothing to do with nature, that all is artificiality and art more or less perfected.

Han aprendido a ser lo que no son y lo que son. (de El Sueño ds la Razón Produce Monstruos)

The old ones say that a man can have knowledge without wisdom but he cannot have wisdom without knowledge.

I have discovered by way of a very circuitous route never to give advice, only to share what works best in my own life.

Book lust forever!

Girl discovers reading, then discovers life.

I believe reading is about experiencing joy, and that we learn something about ourselves, and the world, with every book we read, whether a romance, biography, mass-market thriller, or a literary novel. ...We may agree, or we may not, on what's a good book; readers differ all the time on the quality of a book. When it comes to reading, the only opinion that should matter is our own.

We do learn and get stronger through the hard stuff, but that's because God is love, not because God's putting us through some kind of obstacle course.

Curiosity goes hand in hand with intellect, and intellect runs in the family.

Even though my former assistant, Eileen, had turned out to be a soul-sucking demon, she had helped me improve my knitting.

There is, it must be stressed, something uniquely twisted about this particular path to enlightenment. They say that Americans learn where foreign countries are by bombing them. Now it seems we are all learning about nature's circulatory systems by poisoning them.

He was a thing of books and alembics to me, library and laboratory.

She'd remembered the wrong things, and forgotten too much. She'd remembered how to kill and how to hate, and she'd forgotten how to grow.

I'd been trying really hard not to learn their names, but it wasn't going very well

my limit for useful spells is somewhere around nine or ten a day. I haven't found a limit for spells of mass destruction. I can learn a hundred of those just by glancing at them, and I never forget any of them.

after supper Laurence would go to sit outside and read to him by the light of a lantern. He had never been a great reader himself, but Temeraire's pleasure in books was so great as to be infectious, and Laurence could not but think with satisfaction of the dragon's likely delight in the new book, which spoke in great detail about gemstones and their mining, despite his own complete lack of interest in the subject.

Knowing how to make a potion that will heal the lining of your stomach after you've accidentally drunk some lyesmoke-infused apple juice is its own reward, really.

Was a lesson to everyone that being a witch was not the same thing as being wise.

Recordaba lo que no debía, y había olvidado demasiado. Recordaba cómo matar y cómo odiar, y se le había olvidado cómo crecer.

When allowed to return to the class, your feelings of humility and lonesomeness will render you a much finer student and person.

Because Ali did not want to see the deep pools of his kind teacher's eyes and fall into them. He didn't know how to swim.

Maybe we should just wander around other countries carrying books.

I was a fool, and I will always be a fool, and there will never, never, be a last day of school.