Mary E. Pearson Quotes

When you realize there is something you don't understand, then you're generally on the right path to understanding all kinds of things.

I believe the process of going from confusion to understanding is a precious, even emotional, experience that can be the foundation of self-confidence.

Content if hence th' unlearn'd their wants may view, The learn'd reflect on what before they knew.

The older you get the more you understand what you're doing.

Learning is finding out what you already know.

It's not finding what's lost, it's understanding what you've found.

It occurs to her that she should record this flash of insight in her journal - otherwise she is sure to forget, for she is someone who is always learning and forgetting and obliged to learn again.

How slowly one comes to understand anything!

The way of learning is none other than finding the lost mind.

Only recently I’ve learned, it’s an obvious thing, but it just took me a while to realize

I think that we come to a greater understanding of the world we live in and ourselves through reading.

There are many things I’ve written that I didn’t really understand until a long time later.

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.

It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.

Experience is what really happens to you in the long run; the truth that finally overtakes you.

I write to make sense of things that don't make sense to me.

I think that's one of the most important things that books do: not to teach you anything, but to help you teach yourself by just being in the world of the book and having your own thoughts and reactions and noticing your own reactions and thoughts and learning about yourself that way.

As you mature, you start reading and studying and researching, you start to really know what life is about.

There are some things you only learn through experience.

It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well.

I'm beginning to understand myself. But it would have been great to be able to understand myself when I was 20 rather than when I was 82.

A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know.

What teens will realize is always a mystery to me. I'm still realizing so many things myself, very belatedly, that it seems unwise to think I have any right to be showing people things in hopes that they'll realize them.

Sometimes it's the journey that teaches you a lot about your destination.

I think you just learn so much about yourself over the years.