Quotes About Learning

People who make no mistakes lack boldness and the spirit of adventure. They are the brakes on the wheels of progress.

A book is a present that you can open again and again

Nobody is capable of of free speech unless he knows how to use language, and such knowledge is not a gift: it has to learned and worked at. [p.93]

The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book.

A person who knows nothing about literature may be an ignoramus, but many people don't mind being that.

In this box are all the words I know…Most of them you will never need, some you will use constantly, but with them you may ask all the questions which have never been answered and answer all the questions which have never been asked. All the great books of the past and all the ones yet to come are made with these words. With them there is no obstacle you cannot overcome. All you must learn to do is to use them well and in the right places.

I'll continue to see things as a child. It's not so far to fall.

it's not just learning that's important. It's learning what to do with what you learn and learning why you learn things that matters.

For you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons.

it's not just learning that's important. It's learning what to do with what you learn and learning why you learn things that matters.

The Mathemagician nodded knowingly and stroked his chin several times. "You'll find," he remarked gently, "that the only thing you can do easily is be wrong, and that's hardly worth the effort.

You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and still come out completely dry. Most people do.

Oh dear, all those words again, thought Milo as he climbed into the wagon with Tock and the cabinet members. How are you going to make it move? It doesn't have a-- Be very quiet, advised the duke, for it goes without saying.

You often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than right for the wrong reasons.

But that can never be, said Milo, jumping to his feet. Don't be too sure, said the child patiently, for one of the nicest things about mathematics, or anything else you might care to learn, is that many of the things which can never be, often are. You see, he went on, it's very much like your trying to reach Infinity. You know that it's there, but you just don't know where — but just because you can never reach it doesn't mean that it's not worth looking for.

And, most important of all, added the Mathemagician, here is your own magic staff. Use it well and there is nothing it cannot do for you. He placed in Milo's breast pocket a small gleaming pencil which, except for the size, was much like his own.

Whatever we learn has a purpose and whatever we do affects everything and everyone else, if even in the tiniest way...for whenever you learn something new, the whole world becomes that much richer.

And it's much the same thing with knowledge, for whenever you learn something new, the whole world becomes that much richer.

You'll find," he remarked gently, "that the only thing you can do easily is be wrong, and that's hardly worth the effort.

Can you spell everything? asked Milo admiringly. Just about, replied the bee with a hint of pride in his voice. You see, years ago I was just an ordinary bee minding my own business, smelling flowers all day, and occasionally picking up part-time work in people's bonnets. Then one day I realized that I'd never amount to anything without an education and, being naturally adept at spelling, I decided that—

You'll find that the only thing you can do easily is be wrong, and that's hardly worth the effort.

but it's not just learning things that's important. It's learning what to do with what you learn and learning why you learn things at all that matters.

And it's much the same thing with knowledge, for whenever you learn something new, the whole world becomes that much richer.

Oh, don't worry about that, said the Mathemagician as he scooped up the pieces. We use the broken ones for fractions.