“Learning just for the sake of learning was frowned on, and greeted with suspicion”

“Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.”

“But there's so much to learn," he said, with a thoughtful frown."Yes, that's true," admitted Rhyme; "but it's not just learning things that's important. It's learning what to do with what you learn and learning why you learn things at all that matters.""That's just what I mean," explained Milo as Tock and the exhausted bug drifted quietly off to sleep. "Many of the things I'm supposed to know seem so useless that I can't see the purpose in learning them at all.""You may not see it now," said the Princess of Pure Reason, looking knowingly at Milo's puzzled face, "but whatever we learn has a purpose and whatever we do affects everything and everyone else, if even in the tiniest way.”

“Why, if you are interested in the country only for the sake of painting it, you'll never learn to see the country.”

“I've learned it's best to approach you from the front, for the sake of my well-being.”

“Who gives an island as a gift? I frowned. I hadn’t realized Edward’s extreme generosity was a learned behavior.Bella”