Quotes About Learning

Lily was no great reader. She could not tell b from d and all the letters quivered on the page as soon as they felt the brush of her gaze; but when her mother read aloud in her gentle voice, the lines settled and she found she could follow the thread after all, mouthing the words silently in time. Sometimes

that. I have always been a reader; I have read at every stage of my life

They were not willfully cruel, you know. Only foolish. Misguided by their learning, their ambition, their own self-deceiving blindness.

Like I've said, prejudice means pre-judging. Making assumptions without taking the time to learn. Ignorance is the cause and ignorance can be overcome with knowledge.

Never make the same mistake twice. You are your best critic!

I never learned hate at home or shame. I had to go to school for that.

What I've come to learn in my long life is that ignorance is not bliss; it is time consuming and costly as hell.

No matter how little a man may add to the fund of human knowledge it's worth the doing, for it's by little bits that we've learned to know so much of our old world.

Freedom is a school of responsibility for human beings.

Don't be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused.…Stay open, forever, so open it hurts, and then open up some more, until the day you die, world without end, amen." —George Saunders

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Oh, wise young judge.

You're the kind of child who might develop a passion for Bach. I told him I hadn't at school. The one Bach piece I learnt made me feel I was being repeatedly hit on the head with a teaspoon.

The one Bach piece I learnt made me feel I was being repeatedly hit on the head with a teaspoon

Teaching which does not sound as if it is forcing something on you is not true teaching.

The talents of these individuals were more highly motivated by a desire to learn, as opposed to a desire to earn. Which is what you find in your society at this point in time, as you define it.

No perfection... more experience. As soon as you reach perfection it is not perfect anymore because you want to try something different.

What good is knowledge if it just floats in the air? It goes from computer to computer. It changes and grows every second of every day. But nobody actually knows anything.

Sometimes a thing that's hard is hard because you're doing it wrong. (Point Omega)

There are no amateurs in the world of children.

People weren't saying Oh wow anymore. They were saying No way instead and she wondered if there was something she might learn from this.

Find someone to push him ever sunward. There's always something you're not supposed to see but it is a condition of growing up that you will see it.

One must become a book before one can know what is inside it.

If you let me teach you not to end a sentence with a preposition, Edgar thought, I will save your life.