Quotes About Learning

Books — the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity.

Books - the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity.

the calling of the teacher. There is no craft more privileged. To awaken in another human being powers, dreams beyond one's own; to induce in others a love for that which one loves; to make of one's inward present their future; that is a threefold adventure like no other.

there is in men and women a motivation stronger even than love or hatred or fear. It is that of being interested — in a body of knowledge, in a problem, in a hobby, in tomorrow's news­paper.

It took ten months for me to learn to tie a lace; I must have howled with rage and frustration. But one day I could tie my laces. I profoundly distrust the pedagogy of ease.

I loved making Pure Country. It was a great learning experience for me, seeing another part of the entertainment industry.

I think we learn more from those times in our history where we stumbled as a democracy than we learn from the glorious chapters.

This life's hard, but it's harder if you're stupid.

I reads every chance I can gets.

Reading is the basics for all learning.

We ought not to look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dear bought experience.

We ought not to look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dear-brought experience.

Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.

Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God.

He is arguably the most well-informed man in the world, yet he rarely reads newspapers.

Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.

Cuando a los sabios se les agota la sabiduría, conviene escuchar a los niños.

A mans life is interesting primarily when he has failedI well know. For its a sign that he tried to surpass himself.

All that I know I learned after I was thirty.

We) fell out of love with life for having learnt too much of death. ("At School")

He had read endless books, he had digested them, pondered over them. Day by day, year after year, he had turned over all the problems of human beings. Yet there were all sorts of simple things he didn't know how to do: he couldn't even walk into an inn and sit down at a table.

For twenty years I strove to free myself from what I retained of my education; I indulged my curiosity by reading books less to learn than to efface from my memory the ideas that had been thrust upon it.

I never did learn to spell. My friend Doris Bry says now that I've ruined her spelling because I misspell with such confidence.

I avoid the media circus, keep my head down and try to keep growing and learning things.