Quotes About Learning

Vivere in una libreria è come vivere in un deposito di esplosivi. Su quegli scaffali sono allineati i più tremendi combustibili del mondo: i cervelli degli uomini.

Der Hunger nach guten Büchern ist weiter verbreitet und hartnäckiger, als Sie glauben, aber in gewisser Weise trotzdem vielfach unbewusst. Die Menschen brauchen Bücher, wissen es aber nicht. Meistens wissen sie gar nicht, dass es die Bücher, die sie brauchen, überhaupt gibt.

That's what this country needs -- more books!

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.

When you sell a man a book you don't sell him just 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.

Long ago I fell back on books as the only permanent consolers. They are the one stainless and unimpeachable achievement of the human race. It saddens me to think that I shall have to die with thousands of books unread that would have given me noble and unblemished happiness.

Living in a bookshop is like living in a warehouse of explosives. Those shelves are ranked with the most furious combustibles in the world--the brains of men.

Yeah, it's odd when you look back at your own work. Some filmmakers don't look back at their work at all. I look at my work a lot, actually. I feel like I learned something while looking at stuff I've done in terms of what I'm going to do in the future, mistakes I've made and things at work or what have you.

Wise? No, I simply learned to think.

Working on such a big film was amazing. I learned a lot. There weren't too many stunts, just some doubling.

It's not just about filming, you go to awards and interviews too. I enjoy all of it, even learning my lines!

educated on the craft. If this is the first book you have read on the craft,

A true teacher would never tell you what to do. But he would give you the knowledge with which you could decide what would be best for you to do.

For I bless God in the libraries of the learned and for all the booksellers in the world.

The young, in their innocence, are often wise and capable of teaching the old.

You can learn little from victory. You can learn everything from defeat.

It is education that will arm us with the tools that will enable us to succeed and put a stop to the rising rates of preventable death.

For all men strive to grasp what they do not know, while none strive to grasp what they already know; and all strive to discredit what they do not excel in, while none strive to discredit what they do excel in. This is why there is chaos.

Rewards and punishment is the lowest form of education.

To be truly ignorant, be content with your own knowledge.

The purpose of a fish trap is to catch fish, and when the fish are caught, the trap is forgotten. The purpose of words is to convey ideas. When the ideas are grasped, the words are forgotten. Where can I find a man who has forgotten the words, so that I can talk to him?

It's amazing how much you can learn if your intentions are truly earnest.

Don't let the same dog bite you twice.

If you don't know shit then find somebody who does and scare that shit out of him.