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Quotes About Learning

We mutinied quietly, using every lesson we'd been taught by every person who'd ever used us for their own benefit.
~ Laura Wiess
I'll regret it for the rest of my life, Rush, but I was fucking seventeen years old. We're morons at seventeen. We think everything we do is right-- that nothing has a consequence.
~ Laura Wright
He was twenty. I remembered twenty. I'd known everything at twenty. It took me another year to realize I knew nothing. I was still hoping to learn something before I hit thirty, but I wasn't holding my breath.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
Questions are great, but only if you know the answers. If you ask questions and the answers surprise you, you look silly.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
Not knowing a thing is not ignorance. Feigning knowledge you don't have can be--Sholto
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
I remembered twenty. I'd known everything at twenty. It took me another year to realize I knew nothing. I was still hoping to learn something before I hit thirty, but I wasn't holding my breath.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
Ignorance isn't bliss, but neither is knowledge. Sometimes you just know more, but it doesn't make you any happier.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
Not knowing a thing is not ignorance. Feigning knowledge you don't have, can be
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
Subtlety, that was what was needed. Subtle had never been my natural bent, but I had learned. Eventually.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
fear is not truly the same as respect. I'm learning that, at last.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
I'd like to be jealous," Galen said. "I was all set to be jealous, but damn, Frost, can you just teach me how to do it?
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
Richard had scooted in to sit on my left without being asked. He's a quick study. It's one of the reasons we're still going out. That and the fact that I lust after his body something terrible. I
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
sometimes things need to hurt some now, so they don't hurt a lot more later.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
You know, we should make a note of all the mean things Elisa says to us in Italian. That way, we'll learn all the best swearwords.
~ Lauren Henderson
Nothing like pointing out mistakes someone else is making to help you ignore your own.
~ Lauren Henderson
You listened so you would learn; you thought so that your answer would not return to humiliate or harm you, because, in Paulie's world, once something was said it could not be called back or explained away.
~ Laurence Shames
The desire for knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.
~ Laurence Sterne
But desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it. The
~ Laurence Sterne
To such, however, as do not choose to go so far back into these things, I can give no better advice, than that they skip over the remaining parts of this chapter; for I declare before-hand, 'tis wrote only for the curious and inquisitive.
~ Laurence Sterne
Je weniger wirkliches Wissen, desto mehr Hitze und Aufregung.
~ Laurence Sterne
The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.
~ Laurence Sterne
Heat is in proportion to the want of true knowledge.
~ Laurence Sterne
Literature is the safe and traditional vehicle through which we learn about the world and pass on values from on generation to the next. Books save lives.
~ Laurie Anderson
I love the process of learning a thing. It's doing a thing I find so boring.
~ Laurie Colwin