Quotes About Learning

We get our voice from the voices of others. Read promiscuously. Imitate, copy, but become your own voice.

He had learned that the cure for fate was patience.

At Yale, when he was young and headstrong, he'd been sure that one day he'd be the very axis of the world, that his life would be one of deep impact. But every young man thought that. A condition of youth, your own importance. The mark you'd make upon the world. But a man learns sooner or later. You take your little nice and you make it your own.

I went into my first marriage, blank to the schemes of love.

todas las cosas que nos pasan son utiles aunque no sepamos porque

The essence of living is discovering. Indeed, it is the joy of discovery that makes life worth the effort.

A wise man said a long ago, to realize that one is ignorant is the beginning of wisdom.

Live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now!

Live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly

if a book has one passage, one idea with the power to change a person's life, that alone justifies reading it, rereading it, and finding room for it on one's shelves.

We had to learn ourselves and, furthermore, we had to teach the despairing men, that it did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life—daily and hourly.

If you could learn from me how to do a brain surgery in as short a time as I am learning this roadwork, I would have great respect for you.

Whatever we had gone through could still be an asset to us in the future. And

Lebe so, als ob du zum zweiten Male lebtest und das erste Mal alles so falsch gemacht hättest, wie du es zu machen im Begriffe bist.

Everyone makes mistakes. What matters is that we try to make up for them.

The main thing in life is survival. And survival is not just staying alive. It is also a constant effort to grow and to learn and to work.

He thinks he knows it all," said Anstey. "Most fools do," retorted Thorndyke. "They arrive at their knowledge by intuition—a deuced easy road and cheap travelling too.

Happy is the man who has learned the causes of things.

Non ignora mali, miseris succurrere disco.

We hebben veel geleerd van Marianne', zei ze. ''t Meeste nog, denk ik, hoeveel we eigenlijk van elkaar houden'.

At the simplest level, only people who know they do not know everything will be curious enough to find things out.

I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agree, one book is only a single unaccompanied note, and to get the full sound, one needs ten others at the same time.

The taste for books was an early one. As a child he was sometimes found at midnight by a page still reading. They took his taper away, and he bred glow-worms to serve his purpose. They took the glow-worms away and he almost burnt the house down with a tinder.

Few people ask from books what books can give us. Most commonly we come to books with blurred and divided minds, asking of fiction that it shall be true, of poetry that it shall be false, of biography that it shall be flattering, of history that it shall enforce our own prejudices. If we could banish all such preconceptions when we read, that would be an admirable beginning.