Quotes About Learning

Amory selected a blade of grass and nibbled at it scientifically.

Makes sense, doesn't it?  They're investing a lot in their students.

I am tired of knowing nothing and being reminded of it all the time.

Experience is not worth the getting. It's not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you--it's a wall that an active you runs up against.

i'm in a muddle about a lot of things -- i've just discovered that i've a mind, and i'm starting to read read what? everything. i have to pick and choose, of course, but mostly things that make me think.

There's only one lesson to be learned from life anyway.... That there's no lesson to be learned from life.

Doctor Dougall was wrong. It was tempermentally impossible for Amory to get the best marks in school.

I learned a little of beauty - enough to know that it had nothing to do with truth - and I found, moreover, that there was no great literary tradition; there was only the tradition of the eventful death of every literary tradition....

I've found that I can always do the things that people do in books. Really they are the only things I can do.

Amory became thirteen, rather tall and slender, and more than ever on to his Celtic mother. He had tutored occasionally—the idea being that he was to keep up, at each place taking up the work where he left off, yet as no tutor ever found the place he left off, his mind was still in very good shape.

Te mondod folyton, hogy az embernek egyre több dolgot kell megismernie, és ha ezt abbahagyja, olyan lesz, mint a többi ember, és hogy addig kell elérnie valamit, míg ezt a folytonos megismerést abba nem hagyja.

You used to say a man knows things and when he stops knwing things he's like anybody else, and the thing is to get power before he stops knowing things.

De tudod, az a helyzet, hogy a tudás olyan végtelen… és minél többet tud az ember, annál több tudnivalóról szerez tudomást, ami már éppen csak hogy karnyújtásnyira van és ez így megy folyvást.

What if I do? I've heard you and Maury, and everyone else for whose intellect I have the slightest respect, agree that life as it appears is utterly meaningless. But it's always seemed to me that if I were unconsciously learning something here it might not be so meaningless.

A man knows things and when he stops knowing things he's like anybody else, and the thing is to get power before he stops knowing things.

I possess the most valuable experience, the experience of the race, for in spite of going to college I've managed to pick up a good education.

Sie dachte, ich wüsste viel, weil ich andere Dinge wusste als sie...

She thought I knew a lot because I knew different things from her….

a man knows things and when he stops knowing things he's like anybody else, and the thing is to get power before he stops knowing things.

she felt that she had learned something, though exactly what it was she did not know.

We must be kind and forgive one another or we won't survive. But even among the most religious there seems to be a great blind spot covering the world, an inability to learn from past experience. Civilization is as precarious as a sand castle. All the care and effort it took to create it can be knocked down in a second by some bully or another. And the world is full of bullies.

The crucial challenge is to learn how to read critically, analyze data, and formulate ideas—and

For many decades, the world needed to learn from America. But now America needs to learn from the world. And what it most needs to learn about is government—not big or small but good government.

Other educational systems teach you to take tests; the American system teaches you to think.