Quotes About Learning

Just when I seemed about to learn ! Where is the thread now ? Off again ! The old trick ! Only I discern ? Infinite passion and the pain Of finite hearts that yearn.

Does the Great Colinski have a first name?" "Royal. Such a name, don't you think? Royal Colinski from East L.A." The burner vibrated in my pocket, but I was learning too much to stop. "Why

But adversity has a way of strengthening. If it doesn't kill you, you learn things.

Home is where your mistakes can be seen in context.

For it is the books you have read, as much as the people you have met, that constitute autobiography.

you must seek to become more than what you are by exposing yourself to different lands

Regret is so much harder to live with than failure

Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.

You might be the smartest person in the world, but the second-smartest person will just need a little more time to do it.

You rely on your speed too much. A young man's vanity. An old man learns to absorb pain and wait for an opportunity.

Ignorance is fertile ground.

cuando el alumno está preparado el maestro aparece (Bolsalegre)

A person cannot run and also learn. He must stay in one place for a while.

One never knows be it days, weeks or years, when the pupil is ready, the teacher appears.

Unless you are educated in metaphor, you are not safe to be let loose in the world.

I believe in teaching, but I don't believe in going to school.

I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn

Life must be kept up at a great rate in order to absorb any considerable amount of learning.

The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.

He studied Latin like the violin, because he liked it.

We go to school to learn what books to read for the rest of our lives.

How many things have to happen to you before something occurs to you

I had not taken the first step in knowledge; I had not learned to let go with the hands, As still I have not learned to with the heart. And have no wish to with the heart—nor need. That I can see. The mind—is not the heart. I may yet live, as I know others live, To wish in vain to let go with the mind— Of cares, at night, to sleep; but nothing tells me That I need learn to let go with the heart.

Everything I need to know... I learned in kindergarten.