Quotes About Learning

To learning experiences, even though they suck.

As always when she was trying to learn a new language, she opened her mind and let the sound wash through it.

She had no idea why it was so much harder for her to folk in Anglisc to anyone but Begu, it just was, though these last weeks she was learning how to let the words come. It helped if there was no weightiness behind them, no import; if they were only words with no life or death hanging in the balance.

Hild used a trick she had learnt from Gwladus, and studied her mother through half-closed eyes while she lowered her head to her apparent task. Breguswith was smiling to herself.

The lives and deaths of characters in stories and poems, however tragic, help us to learn about the world and - if we are brave enough - to change it.

In a century where the media publish endless stupidities, the cultured man is defined not by what he knows but by what he ignores.

Either we learn from Greek tragedy how to read human history, or we never learn how to read it.

De goede smaak die is aangeleerd is erger dan de slechte smaak die men van nature heeft.

The ineptitude and folly of the bishops' and popes' chatter would disturb us, if we old Catholics had not fortunately learned as little children to sleep during the sermon.

Progress is the offspring of knowledge of nature. Faith in progress is the offspring of ignorance of history.

To educate man is to impede the "free expression of his personality.

Knowing solves only subordinate problems, but learning protects against tedium. Only the contemplation of the immediate saves us from tedium in this incomprehensible universe.

Adults? Maybe there were only two: Thucydides and Burckhardt.

Istruire non è indicare soluzioni, ma rivelare problemi.

When we suspect the extent of the innate, we realize that pedagogy is the technique of what is secondary. We only learn what we were born to know.

Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.

Il est certains esprits dont les sombres pensées Sont d'un nuage épais toujours embarrassées ; Le jour de la raison ne le saurait percer. Avant donc que d'écrire, apprenez à penser. Selon que notre idée est plus ou moins obscure, L'expression la suit, ou moins nette, ou plus pure. Ce que l'on conçoit bien s'énonce clairement, Et les mots pour le dire arrivent aisément.

Înainte s? scrii, înva?? s? gânde?ti.

Ignorance is always ready to admire itself. Procure yourself critical friends.

Attach yourself to those who advise you rather than praise you.

That day, I thought that I held something important and that my life would be changed. But nothing of this nature is acquired definitively. Like water, the world traverses you, and for a while, lends you its colours. It then draws back, leaving you once again to face the emptiness that one carries in oneself, to face that central insufficiency of the spirit that one must learn to live with, to fight, and which, paradoxically, is possibly our surest driving force.

At a young age, I was interested in comic books, which was really how I learnt to read. The name Cage came from a comic book character called Power Man.

The things you know best are: first, those you know intuitively; second, those you've learned from experience; third, those you've learned not from but through books and the ideas they've inspired in you; and finally, those you've learned in books and from your teachers.

A man begins every stage of his life as a novice.