Quotes About Learning

I don't know anything about babies," he said. "No, and you've never lived any place but Arkansas," Clara said. "But you ain't stupid and you ain't nailed down. You can live other places and you can learn about children—people dumber than you learn about them.

The other men were easy to talk to, but they didn't know anything. If one stopped to think about it, it was depressing how little most men learned in their lifetimes.

He behaved like the old ones behaved; the old ones, too, would go to any lengths to learn some useful fact about the animals or the birds. They would figure that someone might need to know those facts; they themselves might not need to, but their children might, or their grandchildren might.

You can't avoid it, you've got to learn to handle it," Augustus said. "If you only come face-to-face with your own mistakes once or twice in your life it's bound to be extra painful. I face mine every day—that way they ain't usually much worse than a dry shave.

Though a Kickapoo, the man had respect for the old ways. He behaved like the old ones behaved; the old ones, too, would go to any lengths to learn some useful fact about the animals or the birds. They would figure that someone might need to know those facts; they themselves might not need to, but their children might, or their grandchildren might.

If one stopped to think about it, it was depressing how little most men learned in their lifetimes. Pea Eye was a prime example. Though loyal and able and brave, Pea had never displayed the slightest ability to learn from his experience, though his experience was considerable. Time and again he would walk up on the wrong side of a horse that was known to kick, and then look surprised when he got kicked.

Gradually he was learning the size, the scale of the Ringworld. It was unpleasant, like all learning processes. He

The priest splayed his digits wide. "Herdmaster, I learn. Later I will speak." "You do not seem pleased." There was no answer. "A place of puzzles," Pastempeh-keph said. "They surrender and have not surrendered. Their tapes show rogues acting in collusion. They live neither in herds nor alone. What are they?" "What do they believe themselves to be?" Fistarteh-thuktun asked. "Perhaps that is more important.

I can help your world, Louis. Your people know little about sex. Which statement Louis prudently let slide.

She is intelligent, tanjit! She's just never been hurt!......All you've got to do is watch her walk. Clumsy. Every second, it looks like she's going to fall over. But she doesn't. She doesn't knock things over with her elbows. She doesn't spill things or drop things. She never did. She never learned not to, don't you see? So she's not graceful.

You might find it helpful to read the works of Robert Heinlein and Poul Anderson. The hallmark of a truly great philosopher is that he never writes books on philosophy, and those two are the best. Anderson for how to get along with people who are conspicuously wrong, and Heinlein for when not to.

My first addiction was to books. -B. Chelsea Adams

You learn it in the moments when everyone's too tired to be sweet, too tired to try hard. You learn it by what they do for you then.

It basically means, we don't know shit about anything

we don't know shit about anything

She's been told that it takes ten years to figure out what you're doing. Ten years. She takes a breath, smiles. She's ready to get started. With the beginning of it. Her life.

it's perhaps better for a prince to learn young that looking before one steps is basic self-preservation.

Our inability to see things that are right before our eyes, until they are pointed out to us, would be amusing if it were not at times so serious. We are coming, I think, to depend too much on being told and shown and taught, instead of using our own eyes and brains and inventive faculties, which are likely to be just as good as any other person's.

He knew you could never teach an animal anything if you struck it, or even shouted at it angrily. He must always be gentle, and quiet, and patient, even when they made mistakes. Star

Down a long road through the woods a little boy trudged to school, with his big brother Royal and his two sisters, Eliza Jane and Alice. Royal was thirteen years old, Eliza Jane was twelve, and Alice was ten. Almanzo was the youngest of all, and this was his first going-to-school, because he was not quite nine years old.

This year the teacher was a slim, pale young man. His name was Mr. Corse. He was gentle and patient, and never whipped little boys because they forgot how to spell a word. Almanzo

An English speaker who has never studied French already knows around 15,000 French words!

Silence is also speech. -Silerian Proverb The bitter heart eats it's owner. -Kintish Proverb Only one thing is better than learning an enemy is dead: learning that he is in Sileria. -Valdani Proverb

You're a big help, Mr. I Read So Many Books.