Quotes About Learning

Let's take a minute to talk about spellbooks, since, in this day and age when magic is no longer taught in schools (or is, at best, an elective like Home Economics), very few people have the experience with spellbooks that they used to.

I don't know the history of my sport. I'm not like those people who know everything.

Do not rescue your children from the consequences of their actions-HOW TO TALK TO YOUR CHILD ABOUT GANGS, Author, V J SMITH, BARNES AND NOBLE NOOK BOOK

His ignorance seemed to widen with everything he read.

Writing enlarges the landscape of the mind.

Old Euclid drew a circle On a sand-beach long ago. He bounded and enclosed it With angles thus and so. His set of solemn greybeards Nodded and argued much Of arc and circumference, Diameter and such. A silent child stood by them From morning until noon Because they drew such charming Round pictures of the moon.

We bow with respect and gratitude before all the great human souls of the past and present - the sages, the righteous, the prophets, the saints of all continents and all epochs throughout the whole of human history - and we are ready to learn from them all that they wish and are able to teach, but we have only one sole Initiator or Lord; we are obliged to reiterate this for the sake of certainty.

Zora and her playmate Carrie Roberts also "spent long afternoons reading what Moses told the Hebrews not to do in Leviticus," Zora remembered. "In that way I found out a number of things the old folks would not have told me. Not knowing what we were actually reading, we got a lot of praise from our elders for our devotion to the Bible.

It's interesting when you've been a partner with someone for so long. So now to sing solo and starting all over again I am learning that I am more bodacious than I thought. I don't know where it's coming from but I am glad.

Both my grandmothers had upright pianos, and I just knew how to play since I was a child. Nobody taught me. I sounded like a grown-up, and then I learned how to read music. I played so well by ear I could fool the teacher to believe I could play the notes. She'd make the mistake of playing the song once, and I could play it.

El conocimiento no es nada si no nos proporciona los medios para afrontar la vida.

What is drawing? How does one learn it? It is working through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what one can do.

The art of teaching is clarity and the art of learning is to listen.

I learned a lot from that first record and I learned a lot from my experiences touring, but really the biggest education I got over the past two years was learning the importance of arrangements.

My mom would give me a piece to play, but I wouldn't do any theory because when it came time to do it I would sneak back upstairs and watch TV. So, I had these kind of nonchalant lessons for years, then it just started soaking in.

I'm not very experienced with boys or the whole dating thingy.

The great thing about knowing you're wrong is the moment you realize it, you're right.

This has not been a scientist's war; it has been a war in which all have had a part. The scientists, burying their old professional competition in the demand of a common cause, have shared greatly and learned much. It has been exhilarating to work in effective partnership. Now, for many, this appears to be approaching an end. What are the scientists to do next?

The bigots are winning," he said gloomily. "Both kinds of bigots…" The ambassador finished his sentence for him: "And the only losers are the learned." They all shook their heads.

Les livres sont ce que nous avons de meilleur en cette vie, ils sont notre immortalité.

Libraries keep the records on behalf of all humanity. ... the unique and the absurd, the wise and the fragments of stupidity.

In our democratic society, the library stands for hope, for learning, for progress, for literacy, for self-improvement and for civic engagement. The library is a symbol of opportunity, citizenship, equality, freedom of speech and freedom of thought, and hence, is a symbol for democracy itself.

Any experience can be transformed into something of value.

Alexandra Fedorovna pronounced Russian words with a heavy accent, and it was noticebale that speaking Russian was hard for her ...[she] pronounced each phrase with difficulty, and with a German accent — just like a foreigner who had learned the Russian language from books, and not from practice.