Quotes About Learning

She'd been trying to improve her written Korean from appalling to merely bad.

We are the Library," Coppelia pointed out. "What we don't know, we research.

stacks of reference books spread outward from the corners of the room and toward the center like infectious diseases.

What Vale didn't know, he had absolutely no idea about, but what he did know was usually fascinating.

I made mistakes. I listened to the wrong people and let them influence my decisions. No more.

Teenagers learn best by doing things, they learn best in teams and they learn best by doing things for real — all the opposite of what mainstream schooling actually does.

If we disown history we are at its mercy. To have a reasonable knowledge of the past is to possess an anchor which is likely to prevent us from being swept towards false ideas about the present and future.

For out of olde feldes, as men seyth,Cometh al this newe corn fro yer to yere;And out of olde bokes, in good feyth,Cometh al this newe science that men lere.

For hym was levere have at his beddes heedTwenty bookes, clad in blak or reed,Of Aristotle and his philosophie,Than robes riche, or fithele, or gay sautrie,But al be that he was a philosophre,Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre.

The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne,Th' assay so hard, so sharp the conquerynge.

The gretteste clerkes been noght the wisest men.

His studie was but litel on the Bible.

A Clerk ther was of Oxenford also.

The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.

the greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people

The life so brief, the art so long in the learning, the attempt so hard, the conquest so sharp, the fearful joy that ever slips away so quickly - by all this I mean love, which so sorely astounds my feeling with its wondrous operation, that when I think upon it I scarce know whether I wake or sleep.

Yet do not miss the moral, my good men. For Saint Paul says that all that's written well Is written down some useful truth to tell. Then take the wheat and let the chaff lie still.

Education begins at home. You can't blame the school for not putting into your child what you don't put into him.

You can never understand one language until you understand at least two.

To learn something, to master something, anything, is as sweet as first love.

Selling a new lie is easy, but not so with un-teaching an old truth.

But I did not find any positive inspiration in my studies until I approached my nineteenth year.

Cautiousness in judgment is nowadays to be recommended to each and every one: if we gained only one incontestable truth every ten years from each of our philosophical writers the harvest we reaped would be sufficient.

We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.