Quotes About Learning

You need to learn to say: I don't know. I'm sorry. I need help and I was wrong.

Armand wondered if Florence understood that line from The Little Prince. He hadn't, as a child. It was only as he got older that he knew it to be true.

It was really a meditation on what he'd learned watching these people. What he'd learned about them and the nature of humanity and what he'd learned about himself. It was a remarkable study of arrogance and humility and, above all, forgiveness.

Had he not been a cop, he'd have loved to be a historian or archivist. Going over old papers, finding curiosities buried in obscure libraries.

Funny how I learned freedom from creatures that are rooted in place.

Knowledge wasn't always power. Sometimes it was crippling.

You're a trainee, here to learn,' he said quietly, directly into the slightly pursed face. 'Therefore a certain teaching is necessary. Do you enjoy learning?' 'Yes, sir.' 'And how do you learn?' 'Sir?' 'The question is clear. Think about it, please, and answer.

wisdom: I don't know. I need help. I was wrong. I'm sorry.

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It's why we're all so fascinated with history. We're in a rowboat. We move forward, but we're always looking back.

As a child, Billy had held his grandfather's calloused hand, and together they'd walked through the forest, the old man touching the trees and describing their character. From him, young Billy learned that trees had feelings and personalities of their own.

Surprised by Joy Professor

There are four statements that lead to wisdom...You need to learn to say: I don't know. I'm sorry. I need help, and I was wrong. Chief Inspector Armand Gamache

There are four statements that lead to wisdom...You need to learn to say: I don't know. I'm sorry. I need help, and I was wrong.

the four sentences that lead to wisdom. He'd said them only once, never repeating them. But once had been enough for Gamache. I'm sorry. I was wrong. I need help. I don't know.

Your vast well of ignorance is finally paying off.

Was there a Dewey Decimal number too? Winnie asked. He had the impression if she could snort Dewey numbers she'd get high.

Some things in life are not pleasant but they have to be done. For instance, German and maths.

I've never been ready to do a single thing I've ever done in my life. I haven't been prepared enough, haven't studied enough, haven't known enough. You can never be ready. There's just so much to know.

Education provides the fullest opportunities for fulfilling ourselves. It is the access to all that a person has yet to learn.

The future belongs to the educated.

The most direct and enduring way to reach the mind and imagination of the learner is through the mind, imagination and character of the outstanding teacher.

We must be careful what we read, and not, like the sailors of Ulysses, take bags of wind for sacks of treasure.

Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.