Education Quote by Jane Austen

“Had he learned - would he ever learn - to discard the thoughts he could not use?”

— Chad Harbach

“There were times he thought it would have been far better to never have known. Yet he continued to return to his core principle:…

— Haruki Murakami

“He had lost the capacity of personal suffering, or he thought he had, and could only be hurt truly by what happened to others.”

— Ernest Hemingway

“Moreover, he felt vaguely that what he called his convictions were not only ignorance but were a way of thinking that made the knowledge…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Because he had been- and in many ways still was- such a brilliant man, he no doubt understood the nature of his memory problem.…

— Yoko Ogawa

“I realized that as a thinking person his advantage lay precisely in his lack of formal education. Nobody told him what to think, and…

— Peter Hessler

“now he knew that there were communities everywhere, sprinkled across the vast landscape of the known world, in which people suffered. Not always from…

— Lois Lowry

“Before he had come to the town he had known about nothing but death: here he had learnt to live, to decide things for…

— Anne Holm

“‎But he still thought it self-evident that one had to do what was right; he had never learned how people could want to do…

— Ayn Rand

“The images whittled away at him like a sharp knife, steady and unrelenting. There were times he thought it would have been far better…

— Haruki Murakami

“He did not know what he sought or what his journeys would bring him; but he had a feeling that he would learn something…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“He tried to avoid these thoughts. He had to stand on guard against his own feeling—as if some part of him had become a…

— Ayn Rand