Quotes About Learning

Puede recordar usted algún gran error que haya cometido en su juventud, duquesa? -preguntó mirándola- Me temo que de una gran cantidad de ellos -exclamó ella. Entonces cométalos otra vez -dijo él gravemente-. Volver a la juventud es solamente repetir sus locuras.

I ask merely for information.

There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating -- people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.

Travel improves the mind wonderfully, and does away with all one's prejudices." "The

What a pity that in life we only get our lessons when they are of no use to us.

And the mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-a-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value.

In my time, of course, we were taught not to understand anything. That was the old system, and wonderfully interesting it was. I assure you that the amount of things I and my poor dear sister were taught not to understand was quite extraordinary.

Every experience is of value.

I'm too fond of reading books to care to write them.

The only people to whose opinions I listen now with any respect are people much younger than myself. They seem in front of me. Life has revealed to them her latest wonder.

To get back one's youth, one has merely to repeat one's follies.

Existen venenos tan sutiles que para conocer sus propiedades hay que probarlos. Existen enfermedades tan extrañas que uno tiene que sufrirlas para comprender su esencia

La experiencia no tiene ningún valor ético. Es simplemente el nombre que los hombres dan a sus errores

DziÅ› wiÄ™kszo?? ludzi umiera na postÄ™pujÄ…cy zdrowy rozsÄ…dek, a kiedy jest ju? zbyt pó?no na leczenie, odkrywajÄ…, ?e jedynÄ… rzeczÄ…, której siÄ™ nigdy nie ?aÅ'uje, sÄ… wÅ'asne bÅ'Ä™dy.

Someday this pain will be useful to you

It's right to learn, even from the enemy.

Et ignotas animum dimittit in artes. And he sets his mind to unknown arts.

Right it is to be taught even by the enemy.

And he sets his mind to unknown arts

By faithful study of the nobler arts, our nature's softened, and more gentle grows.

et ignotas animum dimittit in artes, naturamque nouat.

Et ignotas animum dimittit in artes / And he applies his mind to unknown arts

Fas est ab hoste doceri.

But I'm sixteen! I can't even parallel-park! How am I supposed to know how to be your eyes and ears?