Quotes About Learning

J'aimerais que mon père ait été un requin Qui eût déchiré quarante baleiniers (Et dans leur sang j'aurais appris à nager)

Only for you, children of doctrine and learning, have we written this work. Examine this book, ponder the meaning we have dispersed in various places and gathered again; what we have concealed in one place we have disclosed in another, that it may be understood by your wisdom.

The haste of Europeans has no place in Tibet. We must learn patience if we wished to arrive at the goal.

I lacked the advice and guidance of experienced counsellors and so wasted many years before I realised that one must not pursue several aims at the same time.

If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found time to conquer the world.

Experience is a good school. But the fees are high

The Romans would never have found time to conquer the world if they had been obliged first to learn Latin.

I like to browse in occult bookshops if for no other reason than to refresh my commitment to science.

The aesthetical imperative: If you desire to see, learn how to act

Health and education are always issues.

I once read somewhere that Sean Connery left school at the age of 13 and later went on to read Proust and Finnegans Wake and I keep expecting to meet an enthusiastic school leaver on the train, the type of person who only ever reads something because it is marvellous (and so hated school). Unfortunately the enthusiastic school leavers are all minding their own business.

If you were at school they would not let you read a book like this, they would keep you from reading it by involving you in sport.

I don't know how you humans ever get anything done, you ask so many questions.

From every book invisible threads reach out to other books; and as the mind comes to use and control those threads the whole panorama of the world's life, past and present, becomes constantly more varied and interesting, while at the same time the mind's own powers of reflection and judgment are exercised and strengthened.

Whatever the medium, there is the difficulty, challenge, fascination and often productive clumsiness of learning a new method: the wonderful puzzles and problems of translating with new materials.

Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork — reading, writing, thinking — can.

From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings.

The expert at anything was once a beginner.

From your parents, you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot in front of the other. But when books are opened, you discover that you have wings.

every professional was once a beginner

I genitori ti insegnano ad amare, ridere e correre. Ma solo entrando in contatto con i libri, si scopre di avere le ali.

From your parents you learn love & laughter & how to put one foot in front of the other. But when books are opened, you discover you have wings.

The period before something learns to be afraid is the most dangerous of all, because it is then the creatures are the most vulnerable.

Forgetting takes practice…You have to work at it.