Quotes About Learning

A lifetime is too meager a window to learn Christ and the mysteries of the gospel.

When I discovered libraries, it was like having Christmas everyday!

Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom.

Un livre est un outil de liberté.

A young thinker, untainted by current indoctrinations. Someone who might do some real good in the world.

He who ends with the most understanding wins.

Without feeling abashed by my ignorance, I confess that I am absolutely unable to say. In the absence of an appearance of learning, my answer has at least one merit, that of perfect sincerity.

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite.

Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he _becomes_ polite.

the real menace in dealing with a 5-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a 5-year-old.

For the ancients, to meditate is to read a text and to learn it "by heart" in the fullest sense of this expression, that is, with one's whole being: with the body, since the mouth pronounced it, with the memory which fixes it, with the intelligence which understands its meaning, and with the will which desires to put it into practice.

Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz

Right now, if I were lost in the wilderness, I feel that I could probably make it out, find a way to get home. I've learned a lot, and it's been great fun. Every single one of the caves in this last book I've been in--except for one very small one--and they really are exceptional.

I love being able to learn whatever I want and earn a living at it. Research is fun; writing is hard work.

Sometimes women who aren't perfect are more interesting; they've done more, or learned something.

Ayla, what am I doing wrong?" he asked, standing in front of her, dripping. "It's not you. I'm the one who's doingit wrong." "You're not doing anything wrong." "Yes I am. I've been trying all day to encourage you, but you don't understand Clan gestures.

Every time I went to the library, it felt like a treasure hunt: somewhere amid those dusty books was the answer, and all I had to do was find it.

The purpose of school is for children to learn, not for them to feel good about themselves all the time.

Kids need to learn that you need to feel bad sometimes. We learn through experience, and we learn especially through bad experiences.

technology means there is more to learn before becoming a productive adult. With the economy shifting away from agriculture and toward knowledge-based jobs, more education becomes necessary. As a result, it takes longer to grow to adulthood—you can no longer start working full-time at 12, as my grandfather did, and have all the skills you need. Instead, it takes until 18, 22, or longer to finish education and begin full-time work, one measure of reaching adulthood.

A scholar knows no boredom.

To express the same idea in still another way, I think that human knowledge is essentially active.

It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and so forth.