Soaking Up Knowledge Quotes

#1. The school reports say you don't concentrate. But you don't concentrate because you are thinking. They don't understand that. They think intelligence is all about soaking up knowledge. But true intelligence- the intelligence that really counts- is the ability to interpret facts to make them you own.

Chris Priestley

#2. Revealing her secret to her friends had lightened her burden. She found herself better able to focus, and her mind became a dry sponge soaking up knowledge. Lieutenant Volf may have been a brittle

M.A. Larson

#3. If we agree in love, there is no disagreement that can do us any injury,
but if we do not, no other agreement can do us any good.
Let us endeavor to keep the unity of the spirit in the bonds of peace.

Hosea Ballou

#4. I got paid a lot of money at one point so the focus became, for a lot of people, about that, but for me, it's always been the same goal: To stop the world for people.

Jim Carrey

#5. Like a sparrow in its flitting, like a swallow in its flying, a curse that is causeless does not alight.

Nancy B. Brewer

#6. In real life, I'm gorgeous, beautiful.

Rachel Dratch

#7. The hearts that never lean must fall.

Emily Dickinson

#8. It just makes you a better artist when you're with people who are great artists themselves. Being around Kanye, soaking up all the knowledge, all the stuff he got.

Big Sean

#9. If I wasn't doing modeling, I'd like to study child psychology.

Shanina Shaik

#10. Stephen Littlejohn is dead," Mr. Parrish shouted at her mother. "You are mine, and you will do as you are bid. You and your daughter are mine.

Lori Benton

#11. And yet another moral occurs to me now: Make love when you can. It's good for you.

Kurt Vonnegut

#12. The mind is like a sponge, soaking up endless drops of knowledge.

Robert M. Hensel

#13. There is no intellectual or emotional substitute for the authentic, the original, the unique masterpiece.

Paul Mellon

#14. It was about a hero who insisted with every breath that he was anything but a hero.

Robert Jordan

#15. And in some of the people of the town and community surrounding it, one of the characteristic diseases of the twentieth century was making its way: the suspicion that they would be greatly improved if they were somewhere else.

Wendell Berry

#16. The tantras are ancient sacred books of India and Tibet. The tantras detail specific means for attaining liberation.

Frederick Lenz

#17. Love thy neighbour, for in so doing thou art following the footsteps of Christ.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#18. My suggestion for the young graduate is to go work for someone else and be a sponge, soaking up all the knowledge you can about the profession before heading out on your own.

Keith Granet

#19. I've never been on a water slide in my life.

Ric Ocasek