Quotes About Learning

Let people have an education and you can't stop them.

No people are more often wrong than those who will not allow themselves to be wrong.

A well-trained mind has less difficulty in submitting to than in guiding an ill-trained mind.

It takes a lot of experience for a girl to kiss like a beginner.

Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.

We are educated in the grossest ignorance, and no art omitted to stifle our natural reason; if some few get above their nurses instructions, our knowledge must rest concealed and be as useless to the world as gold in the mine.

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting." Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689 - 1762)

Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.

He said that there was one only good, namely, knowledge and one only evil, namely, ignorance.

Most of the people dishing out judgment have no working experience of the theatre, have not written a professional play, a sketch, or even a joke; have never worked in a theatre, taken an acting class, or published any extended piece of work. They are creative virgins; everything they know about theatre is book-learned and second-hand.

But life should not be traded for gold—a simple lesson, which I had had to learn twice.

The library knows its own mind," old Master Hyrrokkin told him, leading him back up the secret stairs. "When it steals a boy, we let it keep him.

What's the point of being old if you can't beleaguer the young with your vast stores of wisdom? And what's the point of being young if you can't ignore all advice?

but one can't be irredeemable who shows reverence for books.

This is Weep. You can't expect things to make sense here." Thyon didn't agree. "I expect they make perfect sense," he said. "Just under a different set of rules." It was a matter of learning the rules, like learning a new language.

Karou's glance flickered to where the corpse had been, which did not go unnoticed by Liraz. "You think I didn't learn?" the angel asked, incredulous. And with that, Karou almost dared to hope. "Did you?" she asked, and her voice was very small. Did you learn? Did you glean Ziri's soul? Dear gods and stardust, did you? Liraz started to tremble. "I don't know," she said, "I don't know." Her voice shattered, and just like that she was crying.

So what,' said Zuzana. 'They had to be pretty stupid butterflies to fall for him anyway. You'll grow new ones with more sense. New wise butterflies.

I'm a librarian," he said.

one can't be irredeemable who shows reverence for books.

Defalarca bir araya geldikten sonra, her ?eyi bilmek isteyen a??klar?n i?tah?yla birbirlerine kar?? dürüst olmay? ö?renmi?lerdi. Her konu?mada ve dokunu?ta, her hat?ra ve dü?üncede, her koku ve m?r?lt?da bir ?eyler ö?reniyorlard?. Utangaçl?klar?ndan s?yr?ld?ktan sonra, gelece?i kabullenmi?lerdi: Bir gelecekleri vard? ve yokmu? gibi davranmayacaklard?.

The keepers of books had been the keepers of wisdom.

Quando menino, no mosteiro, as histórias tinham sido a riqueza de Lazlo. Ele era mais rico agora. Agora ele tinha livros.

One can always benefit from the culinary knowledge of others.

Why can't bilingualism be seen as an extra resource? Is it because kids who can think in two languages are smarter? (from the book Attitude, 2002)