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Quotes About Learning

I always read. You know how sharks have to keep swimming or they die? I'm like that. If I stop reading, I die.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
Practice makes the master.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
Each woman is like an instrument, waiting to be learned, loved, and finely played, to have at last her own true music made.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
It's the questions we can't answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think. If you give a man an answer, all he gains is a little fact. But give him a question and he'll look for his own answers... That way, when he finds the answers, they'll be precious to him. The harder the question, the harder we hunt. The harder we hunt, the more we learn.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
If you fall, you fall," Elodin shrugged. "Sometimes falling teaches us things too." In dreams you often fall before you wake.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
There were two sets of double doors leading out of the antechamber, one marked STACKS and the other TOMES. Not knowing the difference between the two, I headed to the ones labeled STACKS. That was what I wanted. Stacks of books. Great heaps of books. Shelf after endless shelf of books.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
All explicit knowledge is translated knowledge, and all translation is imperfect.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
Travel is the great leveler, the great teacher, bitter as medicine, crueler than mirror-glass. A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet introspection.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
What I personally knew about courting women could comfortably fit into a thimble without taking it off your finger first.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
Las preguntas que no podemos contestar son las que más nos enseñan. Nos enseñan a pensar. Si le das a alguien una respuesta, lo único que obtiene es cierta información. Pero si le das una pregunta,él buscara sus propias respuestas."... -Así, cuanto más difícil es la pregunta, más difícil la búsqueda. Cuanto más difícil es la búsqueda, más aprendemos...
~ Patrick Rothfuss
Vorfelan rhinata morie" "El deseo de conocimiento forma a un hombre" - Wil
~ Patrick Rothfuss
Es el vicio de mirar atrás. Puedes pasarte la vida mirando hacia atrás, pero no sirve de nada
~ Patrick Rothfuss
I would have chatted with Tempi, but trying to have a conversation with him was like playing catch with a well.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
What makes you think I am not teaching you? Aside from the fact that you refuse to learn.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
It's the questions we can't answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think. If you give a man an answer, all he gains is a little fact. But give him a question and he'll look for his own answers.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
I stayed because there was no other place I could learn what I desired. Mere whipping could not keep me away from it." There are things I desire to learn, and I can only learn them here." I handed her the hard, dark piece of wood. "If you want me to leave, you must do worse than welts.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
What about falling?' I asked. 'If you fall, you fall.' Elodin shrugged. 'Sometimes falling teaches us things too. In dreams you often fall before you wake.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
El deseo de conocimiento forma al hombre
~ Patrick Rothfuss
It´s worst when it´s your own stupid fault isn't it?.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
Los hechos pequeños nos llevan al gran conocimiento -recitó-. De igual modo, los nombres pequeños nos llevan a los grandes nombres.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
It's the questions we can't answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think. If you give a man an answer, all he gains is a little fact. But give him a question and he'll look for his own answer
~ Patrick Rothfuss
A long road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of introspection.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
If one student in ten had half his fire I'd teach with a whip and chair instead of chalk and slate.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
I'll admit, I was disappointed to learn that dragons didn't exist. That's a hard lesson for a boy to learn.
~ Patrick Rothfuss