Quotes About Learning

Golf, like the measles, should be caught young, for, if postponed to riper years, the results may be serious.

I didn't know folk music growing up, no. It's something I've come to study, really, because I think there's so much to learn from traditional music in the sense of the way music began as a way of communication, the traveling storyteller, the bard, the minstrels.

Drugs have taught an entire generation of American kids the metric system.

Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.

I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a 'learning experience.' Then again, I like to think of anything stupid I've done as a 'learning experience.' It makes me feel less stupid.

Always read the stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.

Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.

The history of money-getting, which is commerce, is a history of civilization, and wherever trade has flourished most, there, too, have art and science produced the noblest fruits. In fact, as a general thing, money-getters are the benefactors of our race. To them, in a great measure, are we indebted for our institutions of learning and of art, our academies, colleges, and churches.

Don't fuck with an English major. They keep lots of useless crap trapped in their heads. Once in a while they let some of it out and it bites you square on the ass.

He [his uncle, Pliny the Elder] used to say that there was no book so bad that it was not useful at some point. Pliny the Younger, Epistula III.5.10

The problem is not that humans are by nature incapable of knowing how to love, but that the circumstances of their lives often prevent them from learning.

The worm hissed. "You said it couldn't see!" shouted Oates, forgetting Umber's instruction to be silent. He shook a fist. "We all heard it, Umber! You specifically said, it couldn't see!" "I know-isn't it wonderful to learn something new?" Umber laughed.

when something seems complicated, we do not understand it, but when we do understand something, it has become simple.

Real understanding does not come from what we learn in books; it comes from what we learn from love of nature, of music, of man. For only what is learned in that way is truly understood.

I have discovered photography. Now I can kill myself. I have nothing else to learn.

It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.

I think wine is such a big universe that it's kind of like food - it's intimidating to a lot of people, myself included.

It's not like I can change any of it now. I can only use the experience to avoid such situations in the future.

This is what you learned in college: A man desires the satisfaction of his desire; a woman desires the condition of desiring.

How do we become who we are in the world? We ask the world to teach us. But we have to ask with an open heart, with no idea of what the answer will be.

I near the practice hall and pause, trying to push down my dread. Though I have trained with Astrid every day, I still have not let go and flown. Each day I wait for her to give up and tell me to leave. Come back tomorrow, she simply says

have always needed to know.

Look," said Janet, irritated, "if the thing you liked best to do in the world was read, and somebody offered to pay you room and board and give you a liberal arts degree if you would just read for four years, wouldn't you do it?

At the moment, if you asked me, I would say that this book is about keeping the heart of flesh in a world that wants to put in a heart of stone; and about how, regardless of the accusations regularly flung at them from all quarters, learning and literature can help their adherents accomplish that.