Quotes About Learning

A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.

If there was one thing that life has taught me, it's to accept the most foolish and unthinkable happiness.

That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with delight and profit.

An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.

The mind is like the stomach. It is not how much you put into it that counts, but how much it digests.

He was what I often think is a dangerous thing for a statesman to be - a student of history and like most of those who study history, he learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.

Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates.

Un asno viejo sabe mas que un potro. (An old ass knows more than an old colt.)-A Wrinkle in Time

I am grateful for - though I can't keep up with - the flood of articles, theses, and textbooks that mean to share insight concerning the nature of poetry.

Jika ingin menjadi seorang penulis pertama sekali kena membaca, kedua kena membaca, ketiga, membaca, keempat membaca dan kelima baru menulis.

Perlu ramai "intelektual", bukan "intelekjual".

Max sent Scottie some literary advice, the same dictum he gave every college student who called on him. He stressed the importance of a liberal arts education but urged her to avoid all courses in writing. "Everyone has to find her own way of writing," he wrote Scottie, "and the source of finding it is largely out of literature.

He stressed the importance of a liberal arts education but urged her to avoid all courses in writing. "Everyone has to find her own way of writing," he wrote Scottie, "and the source of finding it is largely out of literature." Scottie

Knowledge acquired outdoors always seems to have a greater, hardier wisdom than the stuff you find at a desk on a computer.

America is layered with the given graffiti, names of its generous dead. There isn't a museum or hospital, a theater or municipal amenity, however humble, that can't be blessed with the remembrance of the comfortably-off and defunct. The money left to Ivy League universities in America isn't about the needs of learning.

You can't help respecting anybody who can spell TUESDAY, even if he doesn't spell it right; but spelling isn't everything. There are days when spelling Tuesday simply doesn't count.

To the uneducated an A is just three sticks.

Owl explained about the Necessary Dorsal Muscles. He had explained this to Pooh and Christopher Robin once before and had been waiting for a chance to do it again, because it is a thing you can easily explain twice before anybody knows what you are talking about.

Are you prepared to have quite obvious things explained to you, to ask futile questions, to give me chances of scoring off you, to make brilliant discoveries of your own two or three days after I have made them myself all that kind of thing?

Wiem, ?e to si? wydaje ?atwe - powiedzia? Prosiaczek do siebie - ale nie ka?dy to potrafi

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience - well, that comes from poor judgment.

Knowledge is good, method is good, but one thing beyond all others is necessary; and that is to have a head, not a pumpkin, on your shoulders and brains, not pudding, in your head.

The sum of things to be known is inexhaustible, and however long we read, we shall never come to the end of our story-book." ( Introductory lecture as professor of Latin at University College, London , 3 October 1892)

My reading list grows exponentially. Every time I read a book, it'll mention three other books I feel I have to read. It's like a particularly relentless series of pop-up ads.