Quotes About Learning

Nei momenti difficili, mi era stato insegnato fin dall'infanzia, leggi, impara, datti da fare, rivolgiti alla letteratura. Essere informati significava non perdere il controllo.

one more piece of evidence that assigned reading makes nothing happen.

They tend to prefer the theoretical to the observable, and to dismiss that which might be learned empirically as "anecdotal".

In time of trouble, I had been trained since childhood, read, learn, work it up, go tot he literature. Information was control.

Yeah, I have a feeling I'm going to be very happy at Mount Olympus Academy," said Athena. Smiling, she tugged Pallas toward the stairs. "C'mon. I can hardly wait to show you around!

Whoever had invented long division has a lot to answer for.

There was more to be said for the power of regret than was often said.

My golf career was blessedly short. It lasted all of one class. Hit that tiny ball? Really? I shook my head as I studied the object on the tee. And I'm supposed to put it over where?

Ignorance is not bad faith. But persistence in ignorance is.

Scholars don't usually sit gasping and sobbing in corners of the library stacks. But they should. They should.

Library-denigrators, pay heed: suggesting that the Internet is a viable substitute for libraries is like saying porn could replace your wife.

Knowledge is currency here....

If knowledge was power I had under my possession the entire school

They will cease to exercise memory because they rely on that which is written, calling things to remembrance no longer from within themselves, but by means of external marks.

The master is not the one who teaches; it's the one who suddenly learns.

Everyone thinks you make mistakes when you're young. But I don't think we make any fewer when we're grown up.

Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult, I've decided, is only a slow sewing shut.

Maybe you expected marriage to be perfect - I guess that's where you and I are different. See, I thought it would be all about making mistakes, but doing it with someone who's there to remind you what you learned along the way.

People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love. —NELSON MANDELA, LONG WALK TO FREEDOM

It's like picking up an unfamiliar piece of sheet music & starting to stumble through it, only to realize it is a melody you'd once learned by heart, one you can play without even trying.

parenting isn't a noun but a verb--an ongoing process instead of an accomplishment. And that no matter how many years you put into the job, the learning curve is, well, fairly flat.

If you want to understand something, you first need to accept the fact of your own ignorance. And then, you need to talk to people who know more than you do, people who have not just thought about the facts, but lived them.

Ask a kid who's struggling in math if he likes being in a mixed-level class, and he'll tell you he feels like a moron. Ask the math genius if he likes being in a mixed-level class, and he'll tell you he's sick of doing all the work during group projects. Sometimes, it's better to sort like with like.

Babies don't come with instruction booklets. You'd learn the same way we all do -- you'd read up on dinosaurs, you'd Google backhoes and skidders. And you don't need a penis to go buy a baseball glove.