Quotes About Learning

I libri devono essere pesanti perché dentro hanno il mondo intero.

Los libros tienen que pesar porque el mundo entero está encerrado en ellos.

Some books should be tasted some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.

Los libros deben ser pesados porque contienen el peso del mundo en ellos

Os livros poderiam ensiná-la tanto sobre este mundo e outros lugares distantes, sobre animais e plantas, sobre estrelas! Podiam ser janelas e portas, asas de papel par ajudá-la a voar para bem longe.

Os livros poderiam ensiná-la tanto sobre este mundo e outros lugares distantes, sobre animais e plantas, sobre estrelas! Podiam ser janelas e portas, asas de papel para ajudá-la a voar para bem longe.

keep six honest serving men (they taught me all I knew); Their names are What and Why and When and How and Where and Who." Rudyard Kipling, The Elephant's Child

Did you have to learn from your own parents how to love your child?

Humans asked them about everything, but they usually weren't half as good at finding the answers.

Ma scusa, lo dici sempre anche tu: i libri devono essere pesanti perché dentro hanno il mondo intero.

What's the point of a houseful of books you've already read?

But if you're not prepared to learn from the teachers that life gives you, you'll always be ignorant.

I've always loved just learning stuff for its own sake. Just to be smarter about the world around me.

Real invention is a process of repeated, crushing failure that leads, very rarely, to a success. If you want to succeed faster, there's nothing for it but to fail faster and better.

you want to double your success rate, triple your failure rate.

That's because humans are imperfect, so they make errors, which is why every book you've ever read has typos in it.

He will know from and early age that failure is not disgrace. It's just a pitch that you missed, and you'd better get ready for the next one. The next one might be the shot heard round the world. My son and I are Americans, we prepare for glory by failing until we don't.

Aristotle said that some minds are not vases to be filled, but fires to be lit.

One can never satisfy a closed mind

Perhaps I am a foolish, fond old dragon who never learns from his own mistakes. But I have to believe that the humans and the dragons are capable of living together. I have to hope that the impossible can be possible. I have to trust in the boy and hope for the best...

We all make mistakes. We all need second chances and even third, fourth, and fifth chances.

Books are like dragons....if we do not believe in them, and read them, they will cease to exist. How, then, will we learn the language and understand the stories of the dear dead ghosts of the past? Save the Dragons. Speak Dragonese. Read a book.

ALL children are spectacularly gifted and learning should be for everyone!

Ah, being a parent is so much harder than it looks. And just because you are old, does not mean that you do not make mistakes. So that is the story of the Great Jailbreak of Gormincrag.