Quotes About Learning

Non si mette la vita nei libri. La si trova.

Books are wonderful, aren't they? … At the risk of sounding like a piece of steak, they tenderize one. … he concurred again, but had no notion what she was on about.

Considero la literatura (...) como un vasto país hacia las fronteras del cual viajo, pero a las que nunca llegaré. Y he empezado demasiado tarde. Nunca me podré poner al día.

Ogni conoscenza è preziosa, che abbia o no la minima utilità per l'uomo.

It was almost a side-effect that this caused me to educate myself to a degree which was beyond anything a school could hope to achieve. My own appetite for knowledge and reading and connection had led me, and that is how education works, not by spoon-feeding, but by stimulating the appetite so that children cannot wait to feed themselves.

Rachel found herself wishing that the week would never end-that her father could stay here forever-but knew he couldn't. If there was one thing she had learned in her brief time at Kalaupapa, it was that all things end.

when the student is ready, the teacher appears

Great masters merit emulation, not worship.

Knowledge is power, but wisdom is peace.

Don't postpone joy until you have learned all your lessons; joy is your lesson

The things that bug you the most have the potential to open you the most.

Programmers become so familiar with code reuse that they often copy existing techniques even when they aren't actually copying code.

If you know less than everything, you always feel inadequate.

I haven't got time to explain it to you, kid, but—that's not how the Force works.

No es vergonzoso admitir que no se sabe todo. Es una muestra de sabiduría, que es un talento mucho mas preciado que la fuerza física, o la capacidad de influir en la fuerza

But patience had to be learned alone.

Higher learning does not preclude the presence of lower minds.

One could teach knowledge. One could teach skills. One could even, she knew, teach something of the Force. But patience had to be learned alone.

A library is a place where you learn what teachers were afraid to teach you.

When you are done living for yourself, only then do you learn that living for others is the privilege,' Renata

Good books shouldn't be hidden away. They should be read by as many people as many times as possible.

That's what libraries were for: to make sure that everybody had the same access to the same books everyone else did.

That means letting them read books that are too easy for them, or too hard for them. That means letting them read books that challenge them, or do nothing but entertain them. And yes, it means letting students read books with things in them we might disagree with and letting them make up their own minds about things, which is downright scary sometimes. But that's what good education is all about.

To read old books is to get an education in possibility for next to nothing.