Learning Quotes

Tell me, what use is prayer, contemplation, or learning? Does prayer grow rye? Does contemplation fill a fishing net? Does learning build a house or plow a field?

Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself.[Ensinar é mostrar que é possível. Aprender é tornar possível a si mesmo.]

Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but – I hope – into a better shape.

Secretly, I still get proud of the ways Rosie and I loved each other. We had no one else to learn from—none of our parents were shining examples of relationship success—so we learned this from each other: when someone you love needs you to, you can get a hold of your five-alarm temper, get a hold of the shapeless things that scare you senseless, act like an adult instead of the Cro-Magnon teenager you are, you can do a million things you never saw coming.

Re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul.

People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.[Les gens de qualité sçavent tout, sans avoir jamais rien appris.]

People never learn anything by being told, they have to find out for themselves.[As pessoas nunca aprendem nada que lhes é contado, precisam descobrir por si mesmas.]

People learn twenty-five percent from their teacher, twenty-five percent from listening to themselves, twenty-five percent from their friends, and twenty-five percent from time.[A gente aprende 25% com o mestre, 25% escutando a si mesmo, 25% com os amigos, e 25% com o tempo.]

One day I would be a better hand at the game. One day I would learn how to laugh.

Nothing important is learned, it is simply remembered.

No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.

Learning softeneth the heart and breedeth gentleness and charity.