Quotes About Learning

To know what is first and what is last will lead near to what is taught in the Great Learning.

The philosopher Zeng said, I daily examine myself on three points: whether, in transacting business for others, I may have been not faithful; whether, in intercourse with friends, I may have been not sincere; whether I may have not mastered and practiced the instructions of my teacher.

Even when walking in the company of two other men, I am bound to be able to learn from them. The good points of the one I copy, the bad points of the other I correct in myself.

Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them." —ANTOINE DE SAINT EXUPÉRY, The Little Prince If

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also want to deal with what emotional maturity really entails, and everything else about your emotions you should have learned when

It is personal. That's what an education does. It makes the world personal.

Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever, he said.

Men say they only learn this but he said that no creature can learn that which his heart has no shape to hold.

he said that it was good that God kept the truths of life from the young as they were starting out or else they'd have no heart to start at all

Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever, he said. You might want to think about that.

What you put in your head is there forever.

You don't know shit from apple butter.

Those who cannot see must rely upon what has gone before. If I do not wish to appear so foolish as to drink from an empty glass I must remember whether I have drained it or not.

Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever

Housecats is smart too. Smarter'n a dog or a mule. Folks thinks they ain't on account of you cain't learn em nothin, but what it is is that they won't learn nothin. They too smart.

Pami?taj, ?e to, co wpuszczasz do g?owy, pozostaje w niej na zawsze.

We none of us knew him to speak [Dutch]. Asked him where he'd learned it you know what he said? What did he say. Said off a Dutchman.

like most men skilled at their work they were scornful of any least suggestion of knowing anything not learned at first hand.

He said that war had destroyed the country and that men believe the cure for war is war as the curandero prescribes the serpent's flesh for its bite. He spoke of his campaigns in the deserts of Mexico and he told them of horses killed under him and he said that the souls of horses mirror the souls of men more closely than men suppose and that horses also love war. Men say they only learn this but he said that no creature can learn that which his heart has no shape to hold.

He pulled the boy closer. Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever, he said. You might want to think about that. You forget some things, dont you? Yes. You forget what you want to remember and you remember what you want to forget.

So what is the way of raising a child? At a young age, said the judge, they should be put in a pit with wild dogs. They should be set to puzzle out from their proper clues the one of three doors that does not harbor wild lions. They should be made to run naked in the desert until Ã¢â'¬Â¦

Don't be ignorant your whole life.

Information and survival will ultimately be the same thing.