Taisen Deshimaru Quotes

I think school is a place where thinking should be taught.

A school that believes in the power of knowledge and learning will have reading at its core.

No brain, no gain. Stay in school.

The acquisition of knowledge was not for us so much a normal process of education as the storing up of weapons in an arsenal by means of which we hoped later to be able to hold our own in a hostile.

One may have broad or narrow talents, but only education renders them useful. Schools set up to train people will develop the intelligence of those who have it and end the stupidity of those who do not, providing a specialty to those who have narrow talent and broad knowledge to those with all-around ability.

We're supposed to be uncomfortable when we read something. That's how we learn.

When I was little, I always got so excited about learning - until I got to the actual learning part of learning.

It is only through reading that one can understand how people are smarter than you and what they have left behind for you.

In India, knowledge has always been considered more valuable than power, fame or riches. In our tradition, educational institutions are respected as temples of learning.

Life is like school. You aren't going to be born knowing what to do in every situation. You learn little by little.

Growing up, I've always kinda been into academics.

Loneliness has little to do with what we do or where we do it, whether we're married or unmarried, optimists or pessimists, heterosexual or homosexual. Loneliness has to do with the sudden clefts we experience in every human relation, the gaps that open up with such stomach-turning unexpectedness. In a brief moment, I and my brother or sister have moved away into different worlds, and there is no language we can share.... It is in the middle of intimacy that the reality of loneliness most dramatically appears.

I could hear rain still pouring from the gutters and a thin branch scraping against one of the windows; but the church seemed completely cut off from the restless day outside--just as I felt cut off from the church. I thought: I am a restlessness inside a stillness inside a restlessness.

Man is essentially ignorant, and becomes learned through acquiring knowledge.

One may almost doubt if the wisest man has learned anything of absolute value by living.

Reading maketh a full man.

Learning is the knowledge of that which none but the learned know.

Whose school-hours are all the days and nights of our existence.

I liked the education. I liked people learning things all around me and I liked going to people's classes.

The thing that I've most enjoyed is what I'm learning.

He felt all at once like an ineffectual moth, fluttering at the windowpane of reality, dimly seeing it from outside.

The true birthplace is that wherein for the first time one looks intelligently upon oneself; my first homelands have been books, and to a lesser degree schools.

School is an institution built on the axiom that learning is the result of teaching. And institutional wisdom continues to accept this axiom, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.

A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.

Most people know nothing about learning; many despise it. Dummies reject as too hard whatever is not dumb.