Quotes About Learning

You already know so much more than you think you know. You are not finished; you are merely ready.

Asking no further questions is the song of my people.

Todos tenemos algo de lo que arrepentirnos y eso es bueno

It isn't always comfortable or easy—carrying your fear around with you on your great and ambitious road trip, I mean—but it's always worth it, because if you can't learn to travel comfortably alongside your fear, then you'll never be able to go anywhere interesting or do anything interesting.

Henry that learning things gave a person advantage over other people.

A sad-faced Russian woman tells us she's treating herself to Italian lessons because I think I deserve something beautiful.

Happy the man who lives long enough to acknowledge his ignorance

From her mother, Janie learned to play charades and murder in the dark, to run three-legged races, to spot hermit thrushes, towhees (Mrs. P. said the towhee's call was Drink your tea!; Bea said it was Brush your teeth!), and tell prairie warblers from the maryland yellowthroat and the great horned from the barred owl by their calls.

In England you learn only to compete with your men in the world and it's not enough to be loved for yourselves because you are women. I shall try to learn of you, but you must try to learn from me, convenido?

Il n'y a pas d'erreur, pas de coïncidences. Tous les événements sont des bénédictions, qui nous sont données pour que nous apprenions.

So, did you need to hear that? Did you really need to know more?' Xas asked. 'Yes. It's always better to know more.' 'God help you,' Xas said with feeling.

It was a paradise of learning, and I prayed for eventual admission.

The past is very useful, but only for what if can teach us about the present. The present is the rich thing. But I am very fond of the past.

The study of history should be our preparation for understanding the present, rather than an escape from it.

El pasado es muy útil, pero sólo cuando puede enseñarnos algo acerca del presente. El presente es lo que cuenta. Pero me gusta mucho el pasado.

Scholarship must go on. For good or for evil, but inevitably, in every field.

as if wherever he taught was a dining room instead of a classroom, and we were all eating at his table.

truthfully, this is the fabric of all my fantasies: love shown not by a kiss or a wild look or a careful hand but by a willingness for research. i don't dream of someone who understands me immediately, who seems to have known me my entire life, who says, i know me too. i want someone keen to learn my own strange organization, amazed at what's revealed; someone who asks, and then what, and then what?

but you can't spend your whole life hoping people will ask you the right questions. you must learn to love and answer the questions they already ask.

Despite popular theories, I believe people fall in love based not on good looks or fate but on knowledge. Either they are amazed by something a beloved knows that they themselves do not know; or they discover a common rare knowledge; or they can supply knowledge to someone who's lacking. Hasn't everyone found a strange ignorance in someone beguiling? . . .Nowadays, trendy librarians, wanting to be important, say, Knowledge is power. I know better. Knowledge is love.

The idea of a library full of books, the books full of knowledge, fills me with fear and love and courage and endless wonder.

but a library is a gorgeous language that you will never speak fluently.

some people were never satisfied by facts they had not themselves discovered.

Behind them the two cohorts marched along, the novices learning from Cracolyna's veterans how best to keep themselves comfortable in overnight bivouacs. And not to dice with veterans.