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Quotes About Learning

As you grow ready for it, somewhere or other you will find what is needful for you in a book.
~ George MacDonald
But it is hazardous and, I believe, counterproductive to become frozen in time by an obsession with past wrongs and errors.
~ George McGovern
Always imitate the behavior of the winners when you lose.
~ George Meredith
Remember that those five hundred words an average Englishman uses are far from being the whole vocabulary of the language. You may learn another five hundred and another five thousand and yet another fifty thousand and still you may come across a further fifty thousand you have never heard of before, and nobody else either.
~ George Mikes
If you want to sound truly English, you must learn to speak the language really badly. It will not be difficult, there are many language schools where they teach you exactly that. (If you are unlucky you may choose one of the old-fashioned ones and be taught English as it should be, and not as it is, spoken.)
~ George Mikes
Students who are interested in learning about the environment should not be dissuaded from doing so, but only if they have proved their proficiency in other basic courses, such as U.S. history. Until then, we need to focus on producing well-educated citizens steeped in their country's history and mindful of their civic responsibilities.
~ George Nethercutt
I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.
~ George Orwell
Education a debt due from present to future generations.
~ George Peabody
No system of education can be perfect which does not teach the principle of righteousness and faith in God. Learning has not saved the world. It is of utmost importance that our children should, in the first place, be taught faith in God. This cannot be left out of our system of education.
~ George Q. Cannon
A man who reads lives a thousands lives. A man who doesn't read live one life.
~ George R R Martin
You want to lead one day? Then learn how to follow.
~ George R. R. Martin
Syrio says that every hurt is a lesson, and every lesson makes you better
~ George R. R. Martin
Um leitor vive mil vidas antes de morrer. O homem que nunca lê vive apenas uma.
~ George R. R. Martin
a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.
~ George R.R. Martin
My brother has his sword, King Robert has his warhammer and I have my mind...and a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone if it is to keep its edge. That's why I read so much Jon Snow.
~ George R.R. Martin
A bruise is a lesson... and each lesson makes us better.
~ George R.R. Martin
A woman's life is nine parts mess to one part magic, you'll learn that soon enough...and the parts that look like magic turn out to be the messiest of all.
~ George R.R. Martin
You know nothing, Jon Snow.
~ George R.R. Martin
I have a realistic grasp of my own strengths and weaknesses. My mind is my weapon. My brother has his sword, King Robert has his warhammer, and I have my mind… and a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge. That's why I read so much, Jon Snow.
~ George R.R. Martin
Every man should lose a battle in his youth, so he does not lose a war when he is old.
~ George R.R. Martin
A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge. That is why I read so much.
~ George R.R. Martin
Once she had loved Prince Joffrey with all her heart, and admired and trusted her his mother, the queen. They had repaid that love and trust with her father's head. Sansa would never make that mistake again.
~ George R.R. Martin
We're children. We're supposed to be childish.
~ George R.R. Martin
The past remains the past. We can learn from it, but we cannot change it.
~ George R.R. Martin