Quotes About Learning

Comprendía, entonces, que la vida nos da montones de provisiones para nuestras travesías por el desierto. Todo lo que había adquirido de manera activa o pasiva, todo lo que había aprendido voluntariamente o por osmosis, volvía a mí como las verdaderas riquezas de mi existencia, cuando lo había perdido todo.

but for her it has been no shame to suffer labor, pain, exile, because in laboring I improved, in suffering I became experienced, in exile I learned, for I found daily rest in brief labor, immense joy in slight pain, and a broad homeland in my narrow exile.

Only ignorants get bored

Perfectionism: the need to be right instead of being right.

Force yourself through the work, force the skills to comes; that's the hardest phase; I feel like your problem is that you're trying to judge all things in abstract before you do them. That is your tragic mistake.

philosophers have warned us: if we forget the past, we are doomed to repeat it.

Students are not a flotilla of boats trying to reach the teacher who is finished and waiting on the shore. The teacher is also one of the boats

Life is a risk, mi cielo. Don't let fear stop you from being everything God intended you to be. Go. Learn. Live. Love. What you and I share won't change with geography. It will always shine as bright as these stars—even after I'm gone.

Literacy is the door to knowledge, essential to individual self-esteem and empowerment.

It was at 25, not 15, that I began to write. Yes, there were attempts before, writing attempts, but they were the mere scribbling of a child who through no fault of her own knew only half an alphabet. Now, in my 27th year, it is appetite I have, and abundance to garner. I can make up for lost time—and time is what I have to seek some truths and pull together some lost pieces. It's okay. I'll do it. I'll make up those years.

In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all.

A scholar's ink lasts longer than a martyr's blood.

Every invalid is a doctor.

A new broom sweeps clean, but the old broom knows the corners.

I always listen in on conversations — that always interests me. You never know what you might learn from it.

I could not be greedy, about money, I could not be greedy about miles or rides, and I could not be greedy about closeness with people; all things come in their own time, and are not mine to keep or covet - just to enjoy and learn from.

Scholarship was, above all else, honored among the Jews—scholarship not as "pure" activity, not as intellectual release, but as the pathway, sometimes treacherous

If you believe that no one was ever corrupted by a book, you have also to believe that no one was ever improved by a book.

The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.

The question, then, is not "Is story telling science?" but "Can science learn to tell good stories?" (p. 50)

Education is the process of casting false pearls before real swine.

There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven't seen, too many memories I haven't kept long enough.

There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven't seen, too many memories I haven't kept long enough

I fear my ignorance.