Quotes about Learning

Meg was a great reader and was never without a book; while walking to school she often had one open in her hands, so engrossed she would sometimes trip while navigating familiar streets.

I don't think I'm the smart sister, Isabel said. You are, Sophie told her. You just have a lot to learn.

The little I knew about my own self wouldn't have filled a thimble!... But one thing I do thank her for, for teaching me to learn for myself, by reading and studying and writing a clear hand. And for keeping alive in me somehow the desire to know.

However, loving is nothing if it is not an education...

So he bought her a car, only he refuse to show her how to drive it.

I guess this is because they teach me, and I teach the children and there's no beginning or end to teaching and learning and working—it all runs together.

I think us here to wonder, myself. To wonder. To ast. And that in wondering bout the big things and asting bout the big things, you learn about the little ones, almost by accident. But you never know nothing more about the big things than you start out with. The more I wonder, the more I love.

It not my salvation she working for. And if she don't learn she got to face judgment for herself, she won't even have live.

hadn't realized I was so ignorant, Celie. The little I knew about my own self wouldn't have filled a thimble! And to think Miss Beasley always said I was the smartest child she ever taught! But one thing I do thank her for, for teaching me to learn for myself, by reading and studying and writing a clear hand. And for keeping alive in me somehow the desire to know.

A burnt finger remember the fire.

You need to be around people who know more than you and have more talent than you. Don't be intimidated by them; be inspired.

Buy the truth and do not sell it; get wisdom, discipline and understanding. PROVERBS 23:23