We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.

In wildness is the preservation of the world.

The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.

What is a farm but a mute gospel?

You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.

There is always another way to say the same thing that doesn’t look at all like the way you said it before. I don’t know what the reason for this is. I think it is somehow a representation of the simplicity of nature.

Every three months, I’ll say, ‚Honey, I think I should learn how to cook‘.

Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time.

‚Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree’s inclined.

I became a people-watcher when I lost all my friends when I was 12.

You learn a lot from traveling around.

Too much of what is called ‚education‘ is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.

There are no such things as Flowers there are only gladdened Leaves.

Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

You shall, I question not, find a way to the top if you diligently seek for it; for nature hath placed nothing so high that it is out of the reach of industry and valor.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.

Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!

I was a housewife, so I learned to write in times off, and I don’t think I ever gave it up, though there were times when I was very discouraged because I began to see that the stories I was writing were not very good, that I had a lot to learn, and that it was a much, much harder job than I had expected.

If a subject excites us, if it stirs our deepest curiosity, or if we have to learn because the stakes are high, we pay much more attention. What we absorb sinks in.

It was morning; through the high window I saw the pure, bright blue of the sky as it hovered cheerfully over the long roofs of the neighboring houses. It too seemed full of joy, as if it had special plans, and had put on its finest clothes for the occasion.

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

You can’t learn in school what the world is going to do next year.

When I came to Delhi and noticed an insider view, I felt what it was, and I was surprised to see it. It seemed as if dozens of separate governments are running at the same time in one main government. It appeared that everyone has its own fiefdom.

Everybody looks like clones and the only people you notice are my age. I don’t notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70.

A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation.

Most of us believe, or should believe, that every child can learn, given the opportunity, but try substitute teaching just once and you will see firsthand the socioeconomic issues that distract our kids from taking advantage of that opportunity.

The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.

Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it’s no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing.

So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their ending!

All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part.

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

All writers are going to have to learn more about science, because it’s such an interesting part of their environment.

The history of science shows that theories are perishable. With every new truth that is revealed we get a better understanding of Nature and our conceptions and views are modified.

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

I actually don’t read most of the coverage about Facebook. I try to learn from getting input from people who use our services directly more than from pundits.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

Too often we act – ask our schools to be truant officers, our teachers to be truant officers, because we’re giving them children who have, you know, they’re not ready to learn. And if they’re not ready to learn by the third grade, they know they’re behind.

I got to Africa. I got the opportunity to go and learn, not about any animal, but chimpanzees. I was living in my dream world, the forest in Gombe National Park in Tanzania. It was Tanganyika when I began.

Working with a guy like Ice Cube on ‚Ride Along,‘ you learn so much. He’s a guy who produces, writes, and directs, so you watch and learn and ask questions. As you go, you learn and figure out what you should and shouldn’t do. I do nothing but soak up information.

The eye sees what it brings the power to see.

When you learn about the teaching and the practice of another tradition, you always have a chance to understand your own teaching and practice.

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

What we call Man’s power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination.

It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.

I love the sea.

It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

Don’t just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.

I walk every day, and I look at the mountains and the fields and the small city, and I say: ‚Oh my God, what a blessing.‘ Then you realise it’s important to put it in a context beyond this woman, this man, this city, this country, this universe.

God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.

There are many things that I don’t understand.

When you read, I’m sure you don’t realize that your eyes are going backwards and forwards and to this place and that place. Mine don’t do that.