Quotes About Learning

This is what I get for passing down priceless fruits of hard experience to somebody who still thinks it's exciting to shave.

They never doubt the difference—they just ponder it. It's like a kind of idolatry of uniqueness. It's unvarying and kind of spirit-killing for a Staffer to watch, that the only way your addict ever learns anything is the hard way.

It's no longer enough to teach our children Bible stories; they need doctrine and apologetics.

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Sviare l'attenzione, il segreto è tutto lì, tesoro. Non hai bisogno di chissà quali marchingegni, botole, casse con il doppio fondo, tavoli strani. Ho sempre sostenuto che un uomo disposto a imparare come si svia l'attenzione della gente può sfilare un oggetto dalla tasca, metterlo in un cappello e infine estrarlo. Resteranno tutti a bocca aperta, chiedendosi da dove è spuntata quella roba.

There's a great power of imagination about these little creatures, and a creative fancy and belief that is very curious to watch . . . I am sure that horrid matter-of-fact child-rearers . . . do away with the child's most beautiful privilege. I am determined that Anny shall have a very extensive and instructive store of learning in Tom Thumbs, Jack-the-Giant-Killers, etc.

He had not got beyond the theory as yet — the practice of life was all to come.

Mi educación se vio interrumpida por mi ingreso a la escuela".

Unfortunately, one of the things that is lacking in our society is a good financial education. Most people barely understand what the stock market is and how it operates, and options are a level above even that.

He's finding out, he's doing all right, he'll go to school but nobody's going to teach him anything.

I watch the growth of spirit in the children who come to my class.

As for the matter of what we may expect from one another, that is indeed something we are eager to learn - all of us, all our lives, but I wonder, do we ever learn, do we ever really find out?

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know…

If the truth were known, he was half starved, and yet there was still no end of books he ought to read before he died.

O teach me how I should forget to think (1.1.224)

Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast.

Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst been wise.

Educated men are so impressive!

Have more than thou showest, Speak less than thou knowest, Lend less than thou owest, Ride more than thou goest, Learn more than thou trowest, Set less than thou throwest

Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books, But love from love, toward school with heavy looks.

You taught me language, and my profit on't / Is, I know how to curse

Mark it, nuncle. Have more than thou showest, Speak less than thou knowest, Lend less than thou owest, Ride more than thou goest, Learn more than thou trowest, Set less than thou throwest, Leave thy drink and thy whore And keep in-a-door, And thou shalt have more Than two tens to a score.

Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom.

No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en. In brief, sir, study what you most affect.