Quotes About Learning

SOCRATES: Then hear me, Gorgias, for I am quite sure that if there ever was a man who entered on the discussion of a matter from a pure love of knowing the truth, I am such a one, and I should say the same of you. GORGIAS: What is coming, Socrates?

So I appear to be wiser, at least than him, in just this one small respect: that when I don't know things, I don't think that I do either.

Books have been my classroom and my confidant. Books have widened my horizons. Books have comforted me in my hardest times. Books have changed my life.

It's not easy. It's not supposed to be easy. Most people make mistakes. Most people have to learn the hardest lessons more than once.

No one likes to be criticized, she admitted, but criticism can be something like the desert wind that, in whipping the tender corn stalks, forces them to strike their roots down deeper for security.

It disguises itself as motor vehicle knowledge, but really it's physics, which any other time would be fascinating but not right now, not while you're trying to learn to drive.

I read my eyes out and can't read half enough.... The more one reads the more one sees we have to read.

Se comprendere è impossibile, conoscere è necessario.

Un montaggio è un lavoro che ognuno se lo deve studiare da sé, con la sua testa, e ancora meglio con le sue mani: Perché sa, le cose, a vederle da una poltrona oppuramente da un traliccio alto quaranta metri, fa differenza.

Sbagliare non era più un infortunio vagamente comico, che ti guasta un esame o ti abbassa il voto: sbagliare era come quando si va su roccia, un misurarsi, un accorgersi, uno scalino in su, che ti rende più valente e più adatto.

Non valeva la pena di avere vent'anni se non ci si permetteva il lusso di sbagliare strada

I was kind of excited to go to jail for the first time and I learnt some great dialogue.

Knowledge is of no use unless it is actually in your mind, so that it can be produced at a moment's notice.

You've learned the lesson,' Kellhus had said on one of those rare mornings when he shared her breakfast. 'What lesson might that be?' 'That the lessons never end.' He laughed, gingerly sipped his steaming tea. 'That ignorance is infinite.

So he came to realize that learning a language was perhaps the most profound thing a man could do. Not only did it require wrapping different sounds around the very movement of your soul, it involved learning things somehow already known, as though much of what he was somehow existed apart from him. A kind of enlightenment accompanied these first lessons, a deeper understanding of self.

It's the concert of knowledge and ignorance that underwrites our decisions.

But I've always believed," Kellhus continued, "that one must ride another man's horse for a day before criticizing." "To better understand him?" "No," the man replied with an eye-twinkling shrug. "Because then you're a day away and you have his horse . . ." Achamian

To be a teacher was to be a student anew, to relive the intoxication of insight, and to be a prophet, to sketch the world down to its very foundation—not simply to tease sight from blindness, but to demand that another see.

What did they know of motherhood, the mad miracle of finding your interior drawn from you, clinging and bawling and giggling and learning everything there was to learn anew?

You understand little because to learn you must admit you know nothing.

Many adults feel that every children's book has to teach them something.

The Kingdom cannot be learned like other subjects, such as science, geography or history. The Kingdom is learned only through revelation by the Spirit. It cannot be explained, contained or controlled—thus it is unexplainable, uncontainable and uncontrollable. It is not taught as much as it is caught—and only through the Spirit can it be caught. It cannot be embraced, explained, applied, pursued or entered without the Spirit of God.

I had a good teacher. Better not have been Myrnin or I'll have to kick his predatory ass. I mean you, dummy.

Myrnin to Claire about their costumes of Pierrot and Harlequin, respectively] Don't they teach you anything in your schools? Not about this . Pity. I suppose that's what comes of your main education flowing from Google.