Quotes About Learning

I stole their future from them; I can only being to repay by seeing what I can learn from their past.

Andrew said you were the best person he ever knew. He reached that conclusion before he saw me raise three barbarian children to adulthood. I understand your mother has six. Right. And you're the oldest. Yes. That's too bad. Parents always make their worst mistakes with the oldest children. That's when parents know the least and care the most, so they're more likely to be wrong and also more likely to insist that they're right.

So I don't even get a chance to learn before I'm being judged.

I know everything I need to know already, Rigg always said... To which Father always replied,See how ignorant you are? You don't even know why you need to know the things you don't know yet. So tell me, said Rigg. I would but you're too ignorant to understand the reasons why your ignorance is a fatal disease...

If you did not in your own mind distinguish between useful and erroneous information, then you were not learning at all, you were merely replacing ignorance with false belief, which was no improvement.

We don't punish the ones who fail. They just-don't go on

So that's it? asked the expendable. Final decision, said Ram. And it's the right one. Why do you think so? Because we live or die, we'll learn something important from jumping into the fold. Thousands of future travelers will either follow us or not. But if we don't make the jump, we'll learn nothing, have no new options. A lovely speech. It has been sent back to Earth. It will inspire millions. Shut up, said Ram.

No single] explanation will ever contain the final answer for all time, for all hearers. There is always, ALWAYS more to learn.

The classes were valuable, but the real education was the game.

He had lots of deaths, but that was OK, games were like that, you died a lot until you got the hang of it

We know everything we knew that was worth knowing, that's a crucial distinction.

That was Ender's gift to us, to free us from the illusion that any one explanation will ever contain the final answer for all time, for all hearers. There is always, always more to learn.

There is no teacher but the enemy. No one but the enemy will teach you how to destroy and conquer.

If you wait until you know everything, you never do anything.

No point in getting emotional about anything. Being emotional didn't help with survival. What mattered was to learn everything, analyze the situation, choose a course of action, and then move boldly. Know, think, choose, do.

Everyone was always in such a rush to shoot forward that they never took the time to look back. Which was a mistake. If you wanted to avoid snags, kinks, knots, and cuts, you had to keep your mind on your line, as the saying went.

See how ignorant you are? You don't even know why you need to know the things you don't know yet.

And it occurred to me that what we professors think of as a 'brilliant student' is nothing but a student who is enthusiastically converted to whatever idiotic ideas we've been teaching them.

When Chveya was seven years old she had understood perfectly how the world worked. Now she was eight, and there were some questions.

In Russia you learn patience, said Ivan. In America you learn action.

One is never too old to be a student of the enemy.

Human beings didn't evolve brains in order to lie around on lakes. Killing's the first thing we learned.

I stole their future from them; I can only begin to repay by seeing what I can learn from their past.

Learn from them, because I will always be there, one step ahead of you, programming more difficult and advanced patterns into the computer so that your next battle is more difficult, so that you are pushed