Quotes About Learning

This was my introduction to mountaineering, and clumsy indeed were my movements as we moved off.

The most important thing, I believe, about books for babies and very young children is that they are shared between the child and a caring adult. It is time for physical closeness and comfort, of quiet and harmony, of sharing ideas and emotions, laughing and learning together. The learning and benefit that take place are not only enjoyed by the child. Any adult who takes time to share books with small children will be rewarded, enriched, and revitalized by it, every time.

Oh, no," said Mrs. Miniver. "They do both, I'm certain. But the trouble is, they keep the two processes entirely separate. They've never learnt to think with their hearts or feel with their minds.

Badly done, Emma!

I cannot comprehend the neglect of a family library in such days as these. - Mr. Darcy

If I had ever learnt, I should have been a great proficient.

And to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading.

We all love to instruct, though we can teach only what is not worth knowing.

How clever you are, to know something of which you are ignorant.

You think me foolish to call instruction a torment, but if you had been as much used as myself to hear poor little children first learning their letters and then learning to spell, if you had ever seen how stupid they can be for a whole morning together, and how tired my poor mother is at the end of it, as I am in the habit of seeing almost every day of my life at home, you would allow that to torment and to instruct might sometimes be used as synonymous words.

He had suffered, and he had learnt to think, two advantages that he had never known before…

Give him a book, and he will read all day long.

But to live in ignorance on such a point was impossible.

Ha de aprender mi filosofía. Del pasado no tiene usted que recordar más que lo placentero.

All this she must possess, added Darcy, and to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading.

By reading only six hours a-day, I shall gain in the course of a twelve-month a great deal of instruction which I now feel myself to want.

W]here other powers of entertainment are wanting, the true philosopher will derive benefit from such as are given.

Her mind was less difficult to develop.

She had an excellent heart — her disposition was affectionate, and her feelings were strong; but she knew how to govern them: it was a knowledge which her mother had yet to learn; and which one of her sisters had resolved never to be taught.

But in such cases as these a good memory is unpardonable.

Provided that nothing like useful knowledge could be gained from them, provided they were all story and no reflection, she had never any objection to books at all.

I do not play this instrument so well as I should wish to, but I have always supposed that to be my own fault because I would not take the trouble of practicing.

it is very well worth-while to be tormented for two or three years of one's life, for the sake of being able to read all the rest of it.

it is very worthwhile to be tormented for two or three years of one's life, for the sake of being able to read all the rest of it.