Quotes About Learning

mistakes are positive elements of quintessential thinking and failure is an important part of the foundation upon which to build success.

As you learn more, the fundamentals become at once simpler but also subtler, deeper, more nuanced, and more meaningful.

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. —B. F. Skinner

Mistakes, loss, and failure are all flashing lights clearly pointing the way to deeper understanding and creative solutions.

It's not what you don't know that gets you in trouble. It's what you do know that ain't so. —Will Rogers or Mark Twain or someone else

True experts continually deepen their mastery of the basics.

The depth with which you master the basics influences how well you understand everything you learn after that.

Effective students and creative innovators regularly strive to uncover the unintended consequences of a lesson learned or a new idea.

The simple and familiar hold the secrets of the complex and unknown. The depth with which you master the basics influences how well you understand everything you learn after that. Today

The best place to find things: the public library.

Read to live, not live to read

Alas! there is no fool like him who wishes for knowledge! It is only through woe that we are taught to reflect, and we gather the honey of worldly wisdom, not from flowers, but thorns.

He who studies old books will always find in them something new, and he who reads new books will always find in them something old.

Sono convinto che chi non legge resta uno stupido. Anche se nella vita sa destreggiarsi, il fatto di non ingerire regolarmente parole scritte lo condanna ineluttabilmente all'ignoranza, indipendentemente dai suoi averi e dalle sue attività.

In three months Ron read more than he had in his entire previous life. He felt his mind widen, his perceptions become more acute, for each book was a prism refracting the infinitely varied truths of experience. Some were telescopes; some microscopes.

I believe that anyone who doesn't read remains dumb. Even if they know how, failing to regularly ingest the written word dooms them to ignorance, no matter what else they have or do.

Après quatre mois d'emprisonnement, j'en sais plus sur la justice qu'après deux années d'université.

During the interim, no matter how much agony the man may feel, he also experiences excitement, the excitement of learning how to cope with a closed society that reflects free society as a funhouse mirror reflects the human form: everything is there, but distorted.

Convicts on the main line sent me books from the library. I've always been able to make it if I could read.

One must spend time in gathering knowledge to give it out richly.

When Honor's sun declines, and Wealth takes wings, Then Learning shines, the best of precious things.

they may also be implying that making the discovery that human beings just can't cope with certain kinds of question, and making that discovery for yourself – and actually making it, rather than just lazily assuming that you know it already – isn't a valuable experience, or is an experience without effects. Surely that cannot be true?

The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas. It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong than to be always right by having no ideas at all.

To cultivate a pleasure in being wrong sounds perverse, yet losing an argument means escaping from an old idea and the acquisition of a new way of looking at things.