Quotes About Learning

In the first place, he had by that time lost the benefit of his early education: continual hard work, begun soon and concluded late, had extinguished any curiosity he once possessed in pursuit of knowledge, and any love for books or learning. His childhood's sense of superiority

a sound English education corrected in a great measure her French defects;

All true histories contain instruction;

Ognuno di noi ha dovuto cominciare, incespicando e barcollando sulla soglia, e se i nostri insegnanti ci avessero scherniti anziché aiutarci, continueremmo ancora oggi a incespicare e a barcollare.

I certainly esteem myself a steady, reasonable kind of body ... not exactly from living among the hills, and seeing one set of faces, and one series of actions, from year's end to year's end: but I have undergone sharp discipline which has taught me wisdom; and then, I have read more than you would fancy.

Education is the biggest threat to authoritarianism.

To travel far, there is no better ship than a book.

Le monde est oval. On apprend l'eau par la soif, et la terre par le voyage en mer; la passion par les affres, et la paix par les récits de guerre; l'amour par la mort, et les oiseaux par l'hiver.

It's a great thing to be great, Loo, and you and I might tug for a life, and never accomplish it, but no one can stop our looking on, and you know some cannot sing, but the orchard is full of birds, and we all can listen. What if we learn, ourselves, some day!

I am glad you have an hour for books, those enthralling friends, the immortalities...

Dinner will not be perfect, but I am learning that perfection isn't what matters. In fact, it's the very thing that can destroy you if you let it.

I am learning that perfection isn't what matters. In fact, it's the very thing that can destroy you if you let it.

You and I are lucky, Nurse Power. I frowned. Lucky? To be alive and well, you mean? To be here, in the middle of this. We'll never learn more or faster.

To travel is to turn the pages of the great book of life.

Careful." Why do persons only say that after the hurt? Grandma

I'm beginning to know enough to know that I know nothing.

The worn soles of Daffy's boots skidded on the icy stones. He'd been saving up for a new pair for Christmas, but then he'd come across an encyclopaedia in ten volumes, going cheap. Boots might last ten years, at best, but knowledge was eternal.

Ma knows everything except the things she doesn't remember right, or sometimes she says I'm too young for her to explain a thing.

Brother, there's no end to your knowledge.' 'I'm just old,' Cormac says with a chuckle.

Kartais mokytojai išmoko daugiau, negu patys supranta.

When I was four I didn't know about the world, or I thought it was only stories. Then Ma told me about it for real and I thought I knowed everything. But now I'm in the world all the time, I actually don't know much, I'm always confused.

Learn even from enemies.

These inexperienced doctors rarely knew one end of a woman from the other.

When I was as young as you are now I learned how to save my own life.