Quotes About Learning

Ed," I said, "I really fucked up this time" "Nah," she reassured me, "you just got a little more growing up to do." "I don't know if i can do it," I told her. My friend laughed. "You got no choice.

I had learned a lot in three weeks. I realized that the world could do more than just judge me, it wielded tremendous power over me.

I went to the window and looked out over the mounds of snow, wishing I could do everything in my life once as practice and then go back and do it again.

Faulkner turned out to be a great teacher. When a student asked a question ineptly, he answered the question with what the student had really wanted to know.

The fact that children like lame, uninspired talk and insubstantial, insipid storybooks doesn't prove that it's good for them. They like lollipops, too, but they can't live on them.

A person could skim all the books in a city library and still be more illiterate than a person who studies ten pages of a single good book letter by letter --- in other words, with real accuracy.

Fortunately, her year of graduate classes prepared her for obnoxious conduct.

Trying to learn anything in any circumstances — is caring what people think, and so is worth nothing.

Life is like a school; one can learn, one can graduate, one can skip a grade or stay behind.

Parents should leave books lying around marked "forbidden" if they want their children to read.

People who love literature have at least part of their minds immune from indoctrination. If you read, you can learn to think for yourself.

The old watch the young with anguish, pain, fear. Above all what each has learned is what things cost, what has to be paid.

One does not learn anything except by believing something, and -- conversely -- if one doubts everything one learns nothing. On the other hand, believing everything uncritically is the road to disaster. The faculty of doubt is essential. But as I have argued, rational doubt always rests on faith and not vice versa. The relationship between the two cannot be reversed.

I'm not saying that all college students are subhuman I'm just saying that if you aim to spend a few years mastering the art of pomposity, these are places where you can be taught by undisputed experts.

I was then a young and omniscient student (alas, I was soon to lose both these virtues).

We learn history not in order to know how to behave or how to succeed, but to know who we are.

Sabe que dia é hoje, mãe? — Que dia, meu filho? — Dia vinte de setembro. Faz um ano que a revolução começou. D. Ana olhou as mãos caídas sobre o colo, lívidas. Fazia um ano. Um ano inteiro de ansiedades e esperas. — A gente aprende a não sentir o tempo, meu filho. Senão, acaba enlouquecendo.

Once set a strong mind thinking, and you have done all that it needs for its education.

The process of learning is a nonstop orgy of wonderment.

That was one thing about books: once you read them they couldn't be unread.

Magic was wild feelings, the kind that escaped out of you and into the world and changed things. There was a lot of skill to it, and a lot of learning, and a lot of work, but that was where the power began: the power to enchant the world.

he imagined another life for himself as one of these silent scholars, buried in his research like a guinea pig in its wood shavings, nibbling away steadily after some arcane piece of knowledge in the hope of making an addition, however imperceptible, to the collective pile.

That was the thing about the world: it wasn't that things were harder than you thought they were going to be, it was that they were hard in ways that you didn't expect.

Historical seen, said Alice, people have almost always have whrong when they have said that.