Quotes About Learning

Cruelty is a skill taught not only by example, but also by experience of it.

There was always something to be learned from any experience, no matter how horrendous. As long as a man kept sight of that, his spirit could prevail against anything. It was only when one gave in and believed the universe to be nothing more than a chaotic collection of unfortunate or cruel events that one's spirit could be crushed.

If you can read, you can learn anything. If you've a will to.

Each circle spins off a circle of its own. Each one seems a new thing but in truth it is not. It is just our most recent attempt to correct old errors, to undo old wrongs done to us, and to make up for things we have neglected. In each cycle, we may correct old errors, but I think we make as many new ones. Yet what is our alternative? To commit the same old errors again? Perhaps having the courage to find a better path is having the courage to risk making new mistakes.

A man has to have a purpose in life. I know this now, but it took me the first score years of my life to learn it. In that I scarcely think myself unique.

I have never been wise.

There was a danger in asking too much of a child, but the danger of asking too little was almost equal.

It's a poor teacher who tries to instruct by blows and threats.

She had come to letters late in her life, and though she had mastered them, they had never become her good friends.

acho que Zar aprendeu a lição. Uma vez queimado, duas reservado. - Hmf. Uma vez deitado, sempre esfomeado seria um ditado melhor para este caso.

No hardship endured is a loss. Someone will learn from it. Someone profits from it.

The way she spoke, the way she thought, reflected the books they had shared. It was not that she had become wiser; wisdom had shone in her from the start. Now she had the words for her thoughts. She had been like a lantern flame burning behind a sooty glass. Now the glass was clear and her light shone forth.

There was always something to be learned from any experience, no matter how horrendous. As long as a man kept sight of that, his spirit could prevail against anything. It was only when one gave in and believed the universe to be nothing more than a chaotic collection of unfortunate or cruel events that one's spirit could be crushed.

I can teach you even if you hate me, or if you despise the lessons. I can teach you if you are bored, or lazy or stupid. But I can't teach you if you're afraid to speak to me. At least, not the way I want to teach you. And I can't teach you if you decide this is something you'd rather not learn.

There is this, boy. And you should remember it in every situation, not just this one. Learning is never wrong. Even learning how to kill isn't wrong. Or right. It's just a thing to learn, a thing I can teach you. That's all. For now, do you think you could learn how to do it, and later decide if you want to do it?

Anyone untaught can do a wrong thing. But after he's been taught, there's no excuse to repeat it.

Forgiving the Day. Even the youngest child could do this; all it required was looking back over the day and dismissing the day's pains as a thing that were past while choosing to remember as gains lessons learned or moments of insight.

That is half of teaching an apprentice: making sure the youngster learns what you said, not what she thinks you said.

I believe you each have something to offer the other. But you'll only value it if you discover it for yourselves.

Regrets are useless

Then I thought about it and wondered if I would ever reach a place in which I ceased finding out how stupid I could be.

Learning is never wrong. Even learning how to kill isn't wrong. Or right. It's just a thing to learn, a thing I can teach you.

Had he his way, paper would be as common as bread, and every child would learn his letters before he was thirteen. But even were it so, I do not think this would bring to pass all he hopes. He mourns of all the knowledge that goes into a grave each time a man dies, even the commonest of men.

once students have been taught that learning is tedious, difficult, and useless, they will never learn another lesson.