Quotes About Learning

Information can be harmful when you're not ready for it. ['The Murder Room: The Heirs of Sherlock Holmes']

He who is unaware of his ignorance will only be misled by his knowledge.

Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.

He that is not aware of his ignorance, will be only misled by his knowledge.

He who is not aware of his ignorance will only be misled by his knowledge.

Du sollst das Gute in dir zum Meister setzen und das Nichtgute zum Jünger.

He is prudent who can listen in silence, who can take advice so as to gain a more precise, clear, and complete knowledge of the facts.

Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books...

They say that we are better educated than our parents' generation. What they mean is that we go to school longer. It is not the same thing.

They say that we are better educated than our parents' generation. What they mean is that we go to school longer. It is not the same thing.

An intellectual might lose her virginity to a soldier in the park, but she could learn to look back on it with wry, amused detachment. An intellectual might have a mother who showed her underpants when drunk, but she wouldn't let it bother her. And Emily Grimes might not be an intellectual yet, but if she took copious notes in even the dullest of her classes, and if she read every night until her eyes ached, it was only a question of time.

My time on the financial desk had become a slow ordeal of waiting for my superiors to discover more and more of how little I knew about what I was doing; and now however pathetically willing I might be to learn all the things I was supposed to know, it had become much too ludicrously late to ask.

It takes a lot of tries before you hit perfection. Except for my parents. They got it on the first try.

Takes a lot of tries before you hit perfection." He paused to reconsider that. "Well, except for my parents. They got it on the first try." (Adrian)

Gaining superpowers doesn't mean you know how to use them.

Honor, I thought. For real: the guardians should have taught it. Because I hadn't learned it.

You should know better.? ?I?ve never known better,? he countered. ?You should know that.

Rose: "If you'd teach me to swear in Russian, I might have a new appreciation for it."Dimitri: "You swear too much already."Rose: "I just want to express myself."Dimitri: "Oh, Roza… You express yourself more than anyone else I know."- Rose Hathaway & Dimitri Belikov (Frostbite)

I, had an excellent instructor. One that you currently have locked up. If you want to talk about skills going to waste, then go look in your own jail.

I'll see you later Roza." "At our next practice?" I asked. "We are starting those up again, right? I mean you still have things to teach me." Standing in the doorway, he looked over at me and smiled. "Yes. Lots of things.

I was crushing on my mentor. Crushing on my older mentor. I had to be out of my mind. He was seven years older than me. Old enough to be my…well, okay, nothing. But still older than me. Seven years was a lot. He's been learning to write when I was born. When I'd been learning to write and throw books at my teachers, he's probably been kissing girls. Probably lots of girls, considering how he looked.

Sydney! Stop. Think of something else. Conjugate Latin verbs. Recite the periodic table.

Look, Sage. I don't know much about chemistry or computer hacking or photosynthery, but this is something I've got a lot of experience with." I think he mean photosynthesis, but I didn't correct him. "Use my knowledge. Don't let it go to waste.

Besides, I could hardly complain to the administration that I was being forced to learn magic.