Quotes About Learning

For a desert island, one would choose a good dictionary rather than the greatest literary masterpiece imaginable, for, in relation to its readers, a dictionary is absolutely passive and may legitimately be read in an infinite number of ways.

Oh dear white children, casual as birds, Playing among the ruined languages, So small beside their large confusing words.

An appetite for knowledge is apt to rush one off one's feet, like any other appetite if not curbed. I often stand in the in the centre of the Library here and think despairingly how impossible it is ever to become possessed of all the wealth of facts and ideas contained in the books surrounding me on every hand.

Growing up is a ritual, more deadly than religion, more complicated than baseball, for there seem to be no rules. Everything is experienced for the first time.

A visitor to a garden sees the successes, usually. The gardener remembers mistakes and losses, some for a long time, and imagines the garden in a year, and in an unimaginable future.

A long time ago the lightening was practicing Something I thought was easy

I needed my mistakes in their order to get me here

You can leave a kid alone and it will learn to fend for itself, how to work the remote, a tin opener, and the microwave. I see the holidays as a chance for kids to learn self-sufficiency.

Old I may be, but, given the chance, I will learn.

The chance for mistakes is about equal to the number of crew squared.

What if we had a chance to do it again and again, until we finally did get it right? Wouldn't that be wonderful?

When I don't know the answer to something, I write a book about it because it gives me a chance to explore it and go to some people who do have the answers.

Physical roles give me a chance to learn something new.

I haven't had a chance to really view the pitches straight up.

Wherever we are, we can improve our chances of getting ahead by keeping a book in hand

My thought is, if you're a book lover, you're going to enjoy winning a book even if it's not something you'd ordinarily pick up on your own. It's a chance to expand your horizons a little.

Let's read as if books were to disappear tomorrow!

In the field of observation chance favours the prepared mind.

In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind.

One of the joys of writing historical fiction is the chance to read as much as you like on a pet subject - so much that you could easily bore your friends senseless on the topic.

... the student skit at Christmas contained a plaintive line: "Give us Master's exams that our faculty can pass, or give us a faculty that can pass our Master's exams."

When I was about 15, I picked up the guitar and learned how to play by going through Beatles chords books. I got this Christmas gift with the entire Beatles catalog.

You don't have to be brilliant. It's enough to become progressively less stupid.

Grasp the subject, the words will follow.