Quotes About Learning

He sniffed, and said as others had before him and others no doubt would again, I have learned never to say, 'Never again.

Often, they said, it is the most talented engineers who have the hardest time learning when to stop striving for perfection. West

Approaching everyone you encounter as though they have something valuable to teach you—something that you will benefit from—is the best way to remain flexible, open-minded, and much less stressed.

I'll be taking a two-hour after-school class twice a week for seven and a half weeks. After those thirty hours of classroom time, which will bring me to the end of March, I'll need six hours behind the wheel. And then and only then will I be able to drive. I do the math in my mind as I speed home on my motorcycle from the firdt class.

Hasty learning can lead to mistakes, and magical mistakes tend to be more spectacular than healing mistakes. My father used to use that reasoning to explain why apprentices of magi drink far less than the students of healing." Veran grinned. "'Healers wake up with a sore head," he used to say; 'magicians wake up with a sore head, our toes burned black and the roof on the floor.

Jayan found teaching both frustrating and rewarding. It depended on the apprentice. Some were attentive and talented. Some were not.

Teadmatus ei ole vabandus.

The most important attribute of a magician is knowledge." He paused, then looked at each of the novices who had spoken in turn. "Without it his strength is useless, he has nothing to be skilled or talented in, despite his best intentions.

I'm beginning to sound like a novice repeating formulas," he muttered to Dannyl irritably. "Perhaps you should write a report on your progress every evening and nail it to your door.

Restricting knowledge slows the pace of development.

Rothen tundis talle kaasa. Ükskõik, millist nõu ta tüdrukule ka annab, kindlasti on masendav ja segadusseajav leida end äkitselt õpilaste väikesest, piiratud ja väiklasest maailmast.

Of course, I'm not a doctor; I just watch a lot of ER and House.

A person who won't read books has no advantage over one who can't read books.

One can be both entertained and educated and not know the difference".

True learning must not be content with ideas, which are, in fact, signs, but must discover things in their individual truth.

Losers, like autodidacts, always know much more than winners. If you want to win, you need to know just one thing and not to waste your time on anything else: the pleasures of erudition are reserved for losers. The more a person knows, the more things have gone wrong.

The person who doesn't read lives only one life. The reader lives 5,000. Reading is immortality backwards.

If you want to use television to teach somebody, you must first teach them how to use television.

Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.

Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to enquiry (William of Baskerville)

It's hopeless, he went on. We no longer have the learning of the ancients, the age of giants is past! We are dwarfs, William admitted, but dwarfs who stand on the shoulders of those giants, and small though we are, we sometimes manage to see farther on the horizon than they.

Your masters at Oxford have taught you to idolize reason, drying up the prophetic capacities of your heart!

Chi non legge, a 70 anni avrà vissuto una sola vita: la propria. Chi legge avrà vissuto 5000 anni: c'era quando Caino uccise Abele, quando Renzo sposò Lucia, quando Leopardi ammirava l'infinito… perché la lettura è una immortalità all'indietro.

The good thing about the studium is the that you learn from your teachers, true, but even more from your fellows, especially those older than you, when they tell you what they have read, and you discover that the world must be full of wondrous things and to know them all - since a lifetime will not be a enough for you to travel through the whole world - you can only read all the books.