Quotes About Learning

But are not this struggle and even the mistakes one may make better, and do they not develop us more, than if we kept systematically away from emotions?

If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.

And when I read, and really I do not read so much, only a few authors, - a few men that I discovered by accident - I do this because they look at things in a broader, milder and more affectionate way than I do, and because they know life better, so that I can learn from them.

Let me stop there, but my God, how beautiful Shakespeare is, who else is as mysterious as he is; his language and method are like a brush trembling with excitement and ecstasy. But one must learn to read, just as one must learn to see and learn to live.

The simple minded know many things that the wise ignore

But one doesn't expect out of life what one has already learned that it cannot give, but rather one begins to see more and more clearly that life is only a kind of sowing time, and the harvest is not here.

É a primeira vez depois de muitos meses que eu pego um livro nas mãos. Isto me diz muito e me cura consideravelmente.

I should very much like to see Millet reproductions in the schools. I think there are children who would become painters if only they saw good things.

I'd wish that everyone had what I'm gradually beginning to acquire, the ability to read a book easily and quickly and to retain a strong impression of it. Reading books is like looking at paintings: without doubting, without hesitating, with self-assurance, one must find beautiful that which is beautiful.

I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it.

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

You always have more brain cells than you're currently using.

Happy the man who could search out the causes of things.

Happy is he who gets to know the reasons for things.

Through pain I've learned to comfort suffering men

Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time, to figure out whether you like it or not.

The first duty of a lecturer to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.

One of the great jokes of life is that by the time you're old enough to recognize how little you know, all you can do is mop up the aftermath, dump it in a giant personal hazmat container and move on.

Why didn't you tell us the first day?" And Jolly goes, "Well, nobody told me—I didn't know—" She goes, "Nobody told me. You know?" And when she says this it's like a flat tire got fixed in my head and I suddenly see the sign of her life: "Nobody told me." I look in my brain and I make a brief list of who's sposed to tell you things. It's your folks and your teachers and your girlfriends and your coach if you have a sport.

The teacher did say we can help one another. Cooperative learning it's called. That's where you borrow someone else's brain because yours isn't big enough.

She thought about all she had learned in the past year and accepted the reality that, from the very first moment slavery had been permitted in a country founded on freedom,

Trustin' done take a lifetime, Rose girl. Every time, it seems like you got to learn it again. But it gets to be some easier. You finally figure out that God does really love you. Then the trustin' get easier. God done already know how you feel. Let him take you through the hard times. He'll teach you to trust...

The books from which [children] learn must reflect movement and change and all of the infinite possibilities of minds at liberty.

One learns more,' she said to me one day, 'talking to ignorant people about their own affairs, than in addressing oneself to