Quotes About Learning

The hardest thing about being a parent is watching your kids make mistakes. Our instinct is to protect you. But you're right, Deenie. Sometimes we have to step aside and let you make them anyway. The best we can do is be there when you mess up.

What's wrong with mistakes? Not that I'd know. No one's ever let me make any.

History provides a great example but a terrible excuse.

Will it take the rest of my life to process what has happened? I don't know. If Freddy were here, he would say, 'Yet', as per the rules of a playful accord we have concerning unacquired knowledge, whereby if one of us said they didn't know something, the other had to say 'Yet'. And then the other one--usually me--would provide the missing information, or we'd look it up, or just speculate.

I'd had enough surprises in the last few months to know that you don't always find the answers you're looking for without finding about fifty unwanted ones first.

A shade of sorrow passed over Taliesin's face. 'There are those,' he said gently, 'who must first learn loss, despair, and grief. Of all paths to wisdom, this is the cruelest and longest. Are you one who must follow such a way? This even I cannot know. If you are, take heart nonetheless. Those who reach the end do more than gain wisdom. As rough wool becomes cloth, and crude clay a vessel, so do they change and fashion wisdom for others, and what they give back is greater than what they won.

I decided that adventure was the best way to learn about writing.

Writings can be stolen, or changed, or used for evil purposes. But isn't the risk worth taking? The more people who share knowledge, the greater safeguard for it. Isn't there more danger in ignorance than knowledge?

we learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.

For the odd thing about wisdom is the more you use it the more it grows; and the more you share, the more you gain. You'd be amazed how few understand that.

Ah, Princess, Dallben said, with a furrowed smile, a crown is more discomfort than adornment. If you have learned that, you have already learned much.

What is the use of studying much when I'm to see nothing at all?

Stale water is a poor drink," said Annlaw. "Stale skill is worse. And the man who walks in his own footsteps only ends where he began.

Keep reading. It's one of the most marvelous adventures anyone can have.

Keep reading. It's one of the most marvelous adventures that anyone can have

Keep reading It's one of the most adventures that anyone can have

In some cases," he said, "we learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.

See much, study much, suffer much.

If you made mistakes, you recognize them. As I told you, there are times when the seeking counts more than the finding.

In other words our own earliest sense of self-identity is associated with learning the language of our cultural womb.

it is much easier to be brave if you do not know everything

That's why we have the Museum, Matty, to remind us of how we came, and why: to start fresh, and begin a new place from what we had learned and carried from the old.

always busy because of interesting books

Why do you and I have to hold these memories? It gives us wisdom, The Giver replied.