Quotes About Learning

For all the harmless innocence conjured by the word library, the Friedmans knew the truth: a library, properly maintained, could save the world - or burn it down.

A library, properly maintained, could save the world, or burn it down.

To really live a life in search of knowledge, you must admit when you are wrong.

the Friedmans did it all despite having little to no training in mathematics.

No one who is learning should ever feel stupid

Failure concentrates the mind wonderfully. If you don't make mistakes, you're not trying hard enough.

Somebody once said that the library is actually the dominant life form on the planet. Humans simply exist as the reproductive means to achieve more libraries.

Stay close, do what I say and make as many mistakes as you want – just never the same one twice.

Take no heed of her, explained Jones apologetically. She reads a lot of books.

The only thing you really get to figure out after a lifetime of study is that there's more stuff to figure out. Frustrating and enlightening at the same time.

It's important to collect evidence,' she said, 'even if disproved. That's how science works. Being proved wrong and then advancing. If I'm proved wrong a lot, I must be making headway, right?

That's the point about failure," I said. "It's an intrinsic part of success. You win some, then you lose some. But with experience and luck, you learn to lose less as the years go on.

Failure concentrates the mind wonderfully. If you don't make mistakes, you're not trying hard enough." I

I'm not ready for this!" I hissed. "I'm probably going to fall flat on my face!" " Probably has nothing to do with it; you shall. Failure concentrates the mind wonderfully. If you don't make mistakes, you're not trying hard enough.

I was learning that the Winter had a curious integrity all of its own.

That's a start," she said. "I'd also like you to review the rules regarding spine bending and turning over the corners of pages. If we let simple things like that slide without punishment, we could open the floodgates to poor reading etiquette and a downward spiral to the collapse of civilization.

There is nothing more horrifying than stupidity in action.

Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.

Knowledge is the currency of the twenty-first century.

People's memories improve 68 percent when they have a visual element to recall.

Christians never should fear change. They must believe in change so long as the change is oriented toward godliness. The Christian life is a life of continual change. In the Scriptures it is called a "walk," not a rest. They never may say (in this life), "I have finally made it." They must not think, "There is nothing more to learn from God's Word, nothing more to put into practice tomorrow, no more skills to develop, no more sins to be dealt with.

Lassan kell járnod. Újra kell tanulnod mindent.

You will have to go slowly. You will have to learn everything all over again.

they'd followed their best instincts and based their lives on the premise that money couldn't buy happiness, learning only gradually the many varieties of unhappiness it might have staved off. Russell