Quotes About Learning

It is never too late to learn to love. But it is frightening.

The woman tried to teach Winnet her language, and Winnet learned the words but not the language.

I asked my mother why we couldn't have books and she said, 'The trouble with a book is that you never know what's in it until it's too late.' I thought to myself, 'Too late for what?

I always say to people who want to write: Live life! Don't stand on the rim, don't sit on the sidelines. Make mistakes, make a mess, get it wrong. Read everything, and get out and be in life.

Round and round he walked, and so learned a very valuable thing: that no emotion is the final one.

It was like living in a library, and that was where I had always been happiest.

Darkness was a presence. I learned to see in it, I learned to see through it, and I learned to see the darkness of my own.

The wider we read the freer we become.

I have learned, painfully, over the years that the things I regret in my life are not errors of judgement but failures of feeling.

I was only good at one thing: words. I had read more, much more, than anybody else, and I knew how words worked in the way that some boys knew how engines worked.

Reading is a life-long collision with minds not like your own.

en la escuela siempre

Until we learn to stop dying Tom, we have to live with the consequences. There's no room for the dead unless you treat them as ornamental.

It has taken me a long time to learn how to love - both the giving and the receiving.

The inside and the outside of our lives are each the shell where we learn to live.

Yet as we travel deeper into the strange world of the story, the feeling we get is of being understood - which is odd when you think about it, because at school learning is based on whether or not we understand what we are reading. In fact it is the story (or the poem) that is understanding us. Books read us back to ourselves.

you believe that if every person had enough money, enough work, enough leisure, enough learning, that if they were not oppressed by those above them, or fearful of those below them, humankind would be perfected? Byron asked this in his negative drawl

there is no real advance in human reason, for what we gain in one direction we lose in another; for all minds start from the same point, and as the time spent in learning what others have thought is so much time lost in learning to think for ourselves, we have more acquired knowledge and less vigor of mind. Our minds like our arms are accustomed to use tools for everything, and to do nothing for themselves.

However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.

Among the many short cuts to science, we badly need someone to teach us the art of learning with difficulty.

If one divided all of human science into two parts - the one common to all men, the other particular to the learned - the latter would be quite small in comparison with the former. But we are hardly aware of what is generally attained, because it is attained without thought and even before the age of reason; because, moreover, learning is noticed only by its differences, and as in algebraic equations, common quantities count for nothing.

The wisest writers devote themselves to what a man ought to know, without asking what a child is capable of learning.

It is difficult for an education in which the heart is involved to remain forever lost.

Généralement, les gens qui savant peu parlent becoup, et les gens qui savant beaucoup parlent peu.