Quotes About Learning

Unfortunately, we seem incapable of learning the most important lesson in toxicology: The dose makes the poison.

When you try to learn everything about something, you end up learning something about everything.

Give away everything you know, and more will come back to you.

The perosn who doesn't make mistakes is unlikely to make anything.

Do not covet your ideas. Give away everything you know and more will come back to you.

Failure was a major contributor to its success.

Don't seek praise, seek criticism.

One should never underestimate the power of books.

It always stimulates me to discover new examples of my own prejudice and stupidity, to realize that I don't know half as much as I think I do.

an exercise in the art of paying attention, and paying attention, Ferguson discovered, was the first step in learning how to be alive.

Books force you to give something back to them, to exercise your intelligence and imagination.

I was twelve years old the first time I walked on water. The man in the black clothes taught me how to do it, and I'm not going to pretend I learned that trick overnight.

Anger and disappointment could take you just so far, he realized, but without curiosity you were lost.

every time Mike challenged him he would have to think harder about what he believed in himself, and how could you ever learn anything if you only talked to people who thought exactly as you did?

Knowledge comes slowly, and when it comes, it is often at great personal expense.

Ha az ember annyi id?t megélt, mint én, hajlamos azt hinni, már mindent hallott, nincs már, ami megdöbbentse. Önelégülten hiszi, hogy ismeri a világot, aztán id?nként jön valami, ami kirántja a fels?bbrend? önelégültség gubójából, ami újra emlékezteti, hogy kutyagumit se tud az életr?l.

if a child is not allowed to enter the imaginary, he will never come to grips with the real.

Ma il presente non è meno oscuro del passato, e il suo mistero è pari ai segreti che serba il futuro. Così va il mondo: un passo dopo l'altro, una parola e poi la successiva. Ci sono cose che Blue, a questo punto, proprio non può sapere. Perché la conoscenza arriva piano, e quando arriva spesso costa cara.

It was filled with books. That was the first thing I noticed when I went in—how many books there were. Three of the four walls were lined with shelves from the floor to the ceiling, and every inch of those shelves was crammed with books. There were further clusters and piles of them on chairs and tables, on the rug, on the desk. Hardcovers and paperbacks, new books and old books

in the end books are not luxuries so much as necessities, and reading is an addiction he has no wish to be cured of.

school, whenever I had to do something like memorize the periodic table, my father would say the key to doing boring tasks is to think about not so much what you're doing but the importance of why you're doing it. Though when I asked him if slavery wouldn't have been less psychologically damaging if they'd thought of it as "gardening," I got a vicious beating that would've made Kunta Kinte wince.

If he was indeed an "autodidact," there's no doubt he had the world's shittiest teacher.

That's the problem with this generation; they don't know their history.

I suppose that's exactly the problem--I wasn't to know any better.