Quotes About Learning

There are two ways to write error-free programs. Only the third one works.

To be old and wise, you must first be young and stupid.

Wisdom is not bought.

Cave ab homine unius libri [Beware the man of one book].

Piscem natare doces [You're teaching a fish to swim].

Errare humanum est [To err is human].

The eggs do not teach the hen.

In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.

Every experience is a form of exploration.

The learning and recall of motor-related activities rely on different brain structures, namely, the cerebellar hemispheres, the basal ganglia, and the sensorimotor cortices. The critical learning and recall required for a musical performance or for the practice of sports rely on such structures in close association with the hippocampal system.

Mistakes are never frowned upon as a piece of glaring inefficiency, but are regarded as very good lessons for us by which we can profit to the fullest extent.

If you're twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel – as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to. Find out how other people live and eat and cook. Learn from them – wherever you go.

Don't lie about it. You made a mistake. Admit it and move on. Just don't do it again. Ever

Every grain of experience is food for the greedy growing soul of the artist.

The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it.

The one thing you need most of all is the readiness to learn something new. The chances that you will wake up are in direct proportion to the amount of truth you can take without running away.

EAT YOUR OWN FRUIT A disciple once complained, "You tell us stories, but you never reveal their meaning to us." Said the master, "How would you like it if someone offered you fruit and masticated it before giving it to you?" No one can find your meaning for you. Not even the master.

As one man said, "I got a pretty good education. It took me years to get over it.

But are you listening for what will confirm what you already think? Or are you listening in order to discover something new?

Tá»™t cùng c?a tri th?c nhân lo?i v? Thiên Chúa: bi?t r?ng mình không bi?t. Bi k?ch Ä'au thÆ°Æ¡ng c?a chúng ta n?m ? chá»— chúng ta bi?t nhi?u quá. Chúng ta nghÄ© r?ng mình bi?t, Ä'ó là bi k?ch; và do Ä'ó ch?ng bao gi? khám phá ra.

To really touch something, she is learning—the bark of a sycamore tree in the gardens; a pinned stag beetle in the Department of Etymology; the exquisitely polished interior of a scallop shell in Dr. Geffard's workshop—is to love it.

Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.

We all grew up before we were grown up.

Boil the words you already know down to their bones,' Rex [Browning] says, 'and usually you find the ancients sitting there at the bottom of the pot, staring back up.