Quotes About Learning

You could always go back to school," Louise said. "You're never too old to learn." "But there's just so much. Not just this world, but so many others. By the time I got caught up, I would be too old." "To spend the rest of your life learning?" Louise asked, shaking her head in wonderment. "What could be better than that?" Such a twenty-fourth-century attitude, Clare thought.

If there was anything I learned from John the Baptist, it was that the sooner you confess a mistake, the quicker you can get on to making new and better mistakes.

If you're going to learn, you need to forget what you know.

Your soul may be more evolved than you are right now. If a kid fails tenth grade, do you make him repeat grades K through nine?" "No, I guess not." "No, you just make him start over at the beginning of tenth grade. Well, it's the same with souls. They only ascend. A person gets a soul when they can carry it to the next level, when they are ready to learn the next lesson.

If you are going to learn, you need to forget what you know. - Pokey

For what is curiosity if not intellectual temptation? And what progress is there without curiosity?)

at eighteen months, Sophie moved like a small drunk most of the time.)

cuanto antes confiesas tus errores, antes puedes irte a cometer más.

I have loved them all, with all my heart, and have learned many of their names.

It's impossible to go through life unscathed. Nor should you want to. By the hurts we accumulate, we measure both our follies and our accomplishments.

Only if you are afraid of looking foolish, and I would have looked far more foolish if I persisted with an erroneous belief.' Eragon said. Why, little one, you just said something wise!'Saphira teased.

It is better to be taught to think critically than to be told on what to believe.

It s funny to see a hatchling like you beaten by the old one.

You'll enjoy it. There is much you can learn from books and scrolls, said Jeod. He gestured at the walls. These books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life. It sounds intriguing, admitted Eragon. Always the scholar, aren't you? asked Brom. Jeod shrugged. Not anymore. I'm afraid I've degenerated into a bibliophile.

See this pebble? Yes. Take it. Eragon did and stared at the unremarkable lump. It was dull black, smooth, and as large as the end of his thumb. There were countless stones like it on the trail. This is your training. Eragon looked back at him, confused. I don't understand. Of course you don't, said Brom impatiently. That's why I'm teaching you and not the other way around. Now stop talking or we'll never get anywhere.

There is much you can learn from books and scrolls. These books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life.

Change itself is neither good nor bad, but knowledge is always useful.

Always it is thus with my new students, and especially with the human ones; the mind is the last muscle they train or use, and the one that they regard the least. Ask them about swordplay and they can list every blow from a duel a month old, but ask them to solve a problem or make a coherent statement and... well, I would be lucky to get more than a blank stare in return.

Not anymore. I'm afraid I've degenerated into a bibliophile. A what? asked Eragon. One who loves books, explained Jeod.

Do not feel bad because of it.  It's impossible to go through life unscathed.  Nor should you want to.  By the hurts we accumulate, we measure both our follies and our accomplishment.

A person must earn enlightenment, Eragon. It is not handed down to you by others, regardless of how revered they be.

I have questions, he said. - Then you have more wisdom than most.

Was a broad but shallow education superior to one that was narrow but deep?

We are the universe watching itself, watching and learning.