Quotes About Learning

You shall study history, the great philosophers, the sciences. You will come to understand the nature of life and what it means to be human before you are permanently charged with the taking of life. You will also study all forms of killcraft and become experts.

if one is found just start the rest and u might understand what comes next

This made him a grad student, and grad students existed not to learn things but to relieve the tenured faculty members of tiresome burdens such as educating people and doing research.

Above my cradle loomed the bookcase where/ Latin ashes and the dust of Greece/ mingled with novels, history, and verse/ in one dark Babel. I was folio-high/ when I first heard the voices.

Lost in this awful world, rubbing shoulders with the multitudes, I am like a tired man whose eye can't see behind him, in the deep years, anything but disillusion and bitterness, and in front of him, nothing but a storm which contains nothing new, neither learning nor pain.

The mainspring of genius is curiosity.

I could read the great books but the great books don't interest me.

great books are the ones we need

Let' em learn or let' em die

It seems I make a lot of mistakes and it seems that I am not allowed any.

well, i don't know about you but I'm going to try everything! War, women, travel, marriage, children, the works. [...]. I want to know about things, what makes them work!

when I am feeling low all I have to do is watch my cats and my courage returns.         I study these creatures.         they are my teachers.

Experience can dull. With most men experience is a series of mistakes; the more experience you have the less you know.

there's no defense except all the errors made

There is nothing that teaches you more than regrouping after failure and moving on. Yet most people are stricken with fear. They fear failure so much that they fail.

Then after all this reverse the procedure. Have a good love affair. And the thing you might learn is that nobody knows anything— not the State, nor the mice the garden hose or the North Star. And if you ever catch me teaching a creative writing class and you read this back to me I'll give you a straight A right up the pickle barrel.

we know so little, we know so much, we don't know enough.

There is nothing that teaches you more than regrouping after failure ad moving on. Yet most people are stricken wth fear. They fear failure so much that they fail.

I had the dictionary at my elbow. Every now and then I would flip a page, find a large incomprehensible word and build a sentence or a paragraph out of the idea.

When you didn't know how to do anything that's what you became—a shipping clerk, receiving clerk, stock boy.

anyhow, then I went on to city college where the only molesting I could see going on was what they did to your mind.

Sólo un zoquete tiene bolsas llenas de consejos y respuestas a todas las preguntas.

Holmberg's Mistake.

You must have an education! he told the boy. Your knowledge is the only protection you have in this world! Fill your head now to fill your belly later!