# Quote — Sheri S. Tepper, Grass

> “I don’t have much confidence,” she said. “A lot of what I’ve been taught isn’t making sense.”
>
> “That’s the nature of teaching. Something happens, and intelligence first apprehends it, then makes up a rule about it, then tries to pass the rule along. Very small beings invariably operate in that way. However, by the time the information is passed on, new things are happening that the old rule doesn’t fit. Eventually intelligence learns to stop making rules and understand the flow.”

- Author: [Sheri S. Tepper](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sheri-s-tepper.md)
- Book: [Grass](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sheri-s-tepper/grass.md)
- Page: 354
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sheri_S._Tepper#Grass_(1989)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/sheri-s-tepper/grass/i-dont-have

## More from this book

> To Sylvan truth was truth and all else was black heresy, though on occasion he had the very human difficulty of deciding which was which.

p. 7 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sheri-s-tepper/grass/to-sylvan-truth.md)

> Don’t waste your time on penitence or guilt. Solving the problem is better!

p. 338 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sheri-s-tepper/grass/dont-waste-your.md)

> Duty was simply not enough. There had to be more than that!

p. 446 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sheri-s-tepper/grass/duty-was-simply.md)