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Quotes About Learning

We will have many fights. But they will be for the sake of Torah.
~ Chaim Potok
Every day learns from the one that went before, but no day teaches the one that follows. Well
~ Chaim Potok
Virtuosity in Talmud was the achievement most sought after by every student of a yeshiva, for it was the automatic guarantee of a reputation for brilliance.
~ Chaim Potok
Truth has to be given in riddles. People can't take truth if it comes charging at them like a bull. The bull is always killed, Lev. You have to give people the truth in a riddle, hide it so they go looking for it and find it piece by piece; that way they learn to live with it.
~ Chaim Potok
it's perhaps more laudable simply to keep heading out into the world than always tilting to leave one's mark on it.
~ Chang-Rae Lee
Thank goodness they are curious! It's a sign of healthy minds. And while it may be obvious, it's our responsibility to educate them to the idea that romancing the unknown is attended by myriad possibilities, too, shepherding them through those heady periods of urge and instinct when they think they can soar, and deliver them, we hope whole, to a place where perspective begins to reign, where they know that the groggy old bear at the zoo will instantly wake the moment you step inside the cage.
~ Chang-Rae Lee
My father like all successful immigrants before him gently and not so gently exploited his own. This is way I learn business, this is way they learn business.
~ Chang-Rae Lee
I am self-educated from genre books.
~ Charlaine Harris
I've got libraries in my blood.
~ Charlaine Harris
Why was it librarians had such a prim image? With all the information available in books right there at their fingertips, librarians could be the best-informed people around. About anything.
~ Charlaine Harris
Okay I've been stupid in the past. Not consistently stupid, but occasionally stupid. And I've made mistakes. You bet, I've made mistakes.
~ Charlaine Harris
So, on the whole, I'd have to say that no, people don't change, but they CAN learn to behave differently. I want to believe otherwise. If you have an argument that says I'm wrong, I'd be glad to hear it.
~ Charlaine Harris
You can get more skilled, Sookie, but can't get any better.
~ Charlaine Harris
I maybe uneducated and unworldly, but I'm not stupid or unread.
~ Charlaine Harris
I had never been able to fathom what people did with their free moments, if they didn't read.
~ Charlaine Harris
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me
~ Charlaine Harris
If I'd learned anything over the past few years, it was not to make stupid assumptions. The idea that family would not harm you was a stupid assumption of the first order.
~ Charlaine Harris
I'd have to say no, people don't change, but they can learn to behave differently
~ Charlaine Harris
on the whole," he continued, "I'd have to say no, people don't change, but they can learn to behave differently. I want to believe otherwise. If you have an argument that says I'm wrong, I'd be glad to hear it." We
~ Charlaine Harris
I set out to discover the why of it, and to transform my pleasure into knowledge.
~ Charles Baudelaire
I was always a good cook from my mum showing me when I was a young lad, but hiring a chef helped me to understand food better.
~ Ross Barkley
I chose 'No. 1 Ladies' Detective,' or I'll say it chose me, and it was an absolute blessing, for the experience of being in Africa for seven months and learning so many different things, from languages to foods to greetings. On so many levels, it was an incredible experience.
~ Jill Scott
When I was about 15... I made my first attempt as a leading lady, and was, of course, a complete failure.
~ Maude Adams
I did all of my learning on 'My Fair Lady.'
~ Julie Andrews