Quotes about Learning

How does the ordinary person come to the transcendent? For a start, I would say, study poetry. Learn how to read a poem. You need not have the experience to get the message, or at least some indication of the message. It may come gradually. (92)

He who thinks he knows, doesn't know. He who knows that he doesn't know, knows. For in this context, to know is not to know. And not to know is to know.

Woman, in the picture language of mythology, represents the totality of what can be known. The hero is the one who comes to know.

The boy answers, Don't ask unless you are willing to be hurt. Indra says, I ask. Teach. (That, by the way, is a good Oriental idea: you don't teach until you are asked. You don't force your mission down people's throats.)

You can't help respecting anybody who can spell TUESDAY, even if he doesn't spell it right; but spelling isn't everything. There are days when spelling Tuesday simply doesn't count.

Owl explained about the Necessary Dorsal Muscles. He had explained this to Pooh and Christopher Robin once before and had been waiting for a chance to do it again, because it is a thing you can easily explain twice before anybody knows what you are talking about.

I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

The best thing Jay-Z ever taught me was patience.

I've learnt to be more patient, more comfortable on the ball, and the number of goals I've scored, I'm happy.

A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.

Beware of the person of one book.

It is sometimes expedient to forget what you know.