Quotes About Learning

To abstain from action is well—except to acquire merit.' 'At the Gates of Learning we were taught that to abstain from action was unbefitting a Sahib.

There are several ways, he said shyly, in which I'm trying to improve myself. I have a great many books and records and now I'm learning to play golf. Do you know golf, Sister? The English think it's a very serious game. I was going to learn a much more serious game called cricket, but you need twenty two people...

I have come to believe that nothing is ever wasted; out of mistakes or through mistakes, something quite worthwhile can come, in my case the see of another novel.

If we feel and learn nothing from the tragedies of the past, then we'll never know how to truly help avoid those same tragedies in the future. Certainly, we can't avoid all pain and suffering, but we can and should learn from it.

Iyther you dont know nothing or you know too much it dont seam like theres any thing in be twean.

People who for years had not looked for things in booked found new appetites for knowledge when they spoke to him. To someone who came in asking for the latest novel he might sell not only the novel but a biological treatise on the life of ants, an ecological study of ancient man, a philosophical work, and a history of small sailing-craft.

Life is for action, and if we desire to know anything, we must make up our minds to be ignorant about much.

What I learned is ignorance is not bliss. Ignorance is ignorance. You can't help or contribute to this planet without knowing what's really going on.

Doctor Who: You want weapons? We're in a library. Books are the best weapon in the world. This room's the greatest arsenal we could have. Arm yourself! (from Tooth and Claw in Season 2)

Work and study, theory and practice: the two must go hand in hand. You must not stop studying because you work, and you must not stop working because you study.

And we can grow as much through our mistakes, through our failures, as we can through our successes.

In this root sense, ignorance is an act of will, a choice that one makes over and over again, especially when information overwhelms and knowledge has become synonymous with impotence.

As someone who has to teach for a living, I shouldn't be saying this, but the planet can do quite well without books.

we must keep up our studies even as civilization collapses around us.

Does the half-life of information correlate with the decay of our attention?

Information is a lot like water; it's hard to hold on to, and hard to keep from leaking away.

Do you have to live to be a hundred to really grow up?

Information like this had a life of its own, and once it entered her mind, she couldn't unknow or forget it.

What is the half-life of information?

If we can't act on knowledge, then we can't survive without ignorance. So we cultivate the ignorance, go to great lengths to celebrate it, even.

I felt it wouldn't kill me to learn something before I died

Perhaps you have heard the Zen motto that says, "When the student is ready, the teacher appears"?

Never be afraid of not knowing, young man. Not knowing is ze practice of poets and sages.

Bah. Of course he does! He is a schoolboy! He must learn to read Latin, recite Shakespeare, and drink vodka!