Quotes About Learning

I have learned that the consequences of our past actions are always interesting; I have learned to view the present with a forward-looking eye.

You can't learn everything you need to know legally.

Being wrong about important things is exhausting.

As it was, things went from bad to worse, as they often will when amateurs are involved in an activity that they perform in bad temper – or in a hurry.

There was no manifestation of contemporary culture that did not indicate to my grandmother how steadfast was the nation's decline, how merciless our mental and moral deterioration, how swiftly all-embracing our final decadence. I never saw her read a book again; but she referred to books often - as if they were shrines and cathedrals of learning that television had plundered and then abandoned.

You can learn a lot from your lovers, but-for the most part-you get to keep your friends longer, and you learn more from them.

There's nothing I need or want to know from the writers I admire that isn't in their books. It's better to read a good writer than meet one.

It was from just a few sentences that a writer learned anything from another writer.

Wilbur Larch knew that freedom was an orphan's most dangerous illusion, and when he finally heard from Homer, he scanned the oddly formal letter, which was disappointing in its lack of detail. Regarding illusions, and all the rest, there was simply no evidence. 'I am learning to swim,' wrote Homer Wells. (I know! I know! Tell me about it! Thought Wilbur Larch.) 'I do better at driving,' Homer added.

History is composed of the smallest, often undetected mistakes.

In schools—even in good schools, like Exeter—they tend to teach the shorter books by the great authors; at least they begin with those. Thus it was Billy Budd, Sailor that introduced me to Melville, which led me to the library, where I discovered Moby Dick on my own.

It was Owen Meany who taught me that any good book is always in motion—from the general to the specific, from the particular to the whole, and back again. Good reading—and good writing about reading—moves the same way.

Reading good novels can make young readers seem more experienced about relationships than they are.

You should listen to these people, Farrokh," his father was telling him. "It isn't necessary for them to be your moral equals in order for you to learn something from them.

You have taught yourself to read English, too," Pepe said slowly to the boy; the girl suddenly gave him the shivers, for no known reason. "English is just a little different—I can understand it," the boy told him

We had learned this fact of Sorrow, previously, from Frank: Sorrow floats.

One can learn much through the thin walls of summer houses.

el tipo de contemporización que se permite un joven cuando considera que ha «evolucionado» más que su maestro. Larch dotó a Fuzzy Stone de un inconfundible

It is the well educated who will improve society—and they will improve it, at first, by criticizing it, and we are giving them the tools to criticize it. Naturally, as students, the brighter of them will begin their improvements upon society by criticizing us.

I read that part over and over again, until I felt I had the pronunciation right. There was quite a good pencil drawing of a phoenix, that mythical bird that was supposed

Whereas she wished more of the population were better educated, she also believed that education was largely wasted on the majority of people she had met.

The problem was that blowing things up was the only thing Skelly had ever been taught to do.

But that's the purpose of education! To begin to understand! Then to want to understand!

Trouble was, when you refused to learn, the result was what surrounded the rumbling wagon: soured earth; abandoned homes; imperiled lives. Ruin.