Quotes About Learning

The minute I stand up, I've jumped off the cliff. The world goes by in a haze of color and light; my weight accelerates, head-over-heels. Then I think, falling is the first step in learning how to fly.

Librarians, to Melanie, were somewhat in a par with god -- who else could be bothered with, and better yet, know the answers to so many diffrent types of questions? Knowledge was power, but a good librarian did not hoard the gift. She taught others how to fknd, where to look, how to see

Cuando eres adolescente no eres intocable. Eres estúpido.

I've come to see that ignorance is a privilege, too.

There's no point in being able to know everything about wolves if you can't teach it to the people who need to learn.

Be history, instead of just watching it happen from the sidelines.  Try something new, even if it scares you to death.  Learn because you love to learn, not because you're being tested.  Don't whine – there is always someone who's having a worse day than you are.  Be honest with yourself, and you'll never have anything to hide.   

In a lot of ways, having a teenager isn't all that different from having a newborn. You learn to read the reactions, because they're incapable of saying exactly what it is that's causing pain.

If I tell you another seven hundred times, maybe one of these days you might turn your clothes right side out when you put them in the hamper, eh?

Children are supposed to go to school, play on swing sets, skin their knees.

You don't know what you don't know

There is something else about memory, something Thomas hadn't brought up. It's not a video recording. It's subjective. It's a culturally relevant account of what happened. It doesn't matter if it's accurate; it matters if it's important in some way to you. If it teaches you something you need to learn.

I had to learn how to be a mother before I realized how lucky I am to be a child. And

Over the years, he's learned empathy the way I might learn Greek, translating an image or situation in the clearinghouse of his mind and trying to attach the appropriate sentiment to it, but never really fluent in the language.

I've come to see that ignorance is a privilege too.

People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love.

Babies are such blank slates. They don't come into this world with the assumptions their parents have made, or the promises their church will give, or the ability to sort people into groups they like and don't like.

Todo el mundo piensa que se cometen errores cuando se es joven—le dijo la jueza a Lacy—. Pero no creo que cometamos menos cuando somos adultos.

he'd done it as an infant.

No one looks too closely at a librarian. People are afraid of going blind from the glare of ssss -ssso much compressed wisdom.

Innocence ain't all it's cracked up to be, you know. Innocent little kids rip the wings off flies, because they don't know any better. That's innocence.

Only through practice and more practice, until you can do something without conscious effort.

The saying used to go 'what you don't know can't hurt you,' but it's changed in this world.  Now it's 'what you don't know can eat you.' From

There is an old Latin saying, "Qui docet, discit" (He who teaches, learns). In many

There's no classes in elementary school, high school or college that teach people situational awareness.