Quotes About Learning

To claim absolute knowledge is to become monstrous. Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.

He learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn. And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn. It is shocking to find how many people do not believe they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult.

She asked me to tell her what it is to rule," Paul said. "And I said that one commands. And she said I had some unlearning to do." She hit a mark there right enough, Hawat thought. He nodded for Paul to continue. "She said a ruler must learn to persuade and not to compel. She said he must lay the best coffee hearth to attract the finest men.

At the age of fifteen, he had already learned silence.

But one learns from books and reels only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those things.

Educational bureaucracies dull a child's questing sensitivity.

Ignorance has its advantages. A universe of surprises is what I pray for!

The body, learning a thing is good for it, interprets the flavor as pleasurable—slightly euphoric. And, like life, never to be truly synthesized.

if I'd been born in my grandfather's time, I'd have made my grandfather's mistakes. There's no doubt of it. I just don't want to make my grandfather's mistakes today.

Duncan, have I not told you that when you think you know something, that is a most perfect barrier against learning?

What are you, child, that you need time to learn about yourself?

Can you remember your first taste of spice?" "It tasted like cinnamon." "But never twice the same," he said. "It's like life—it presents a different face each time you take it. Some hold that the spice produces a learned-flavor reaction. The body, learning a thing is good for it, interprets the flavor as pleasurable—slightly euphoric. And, like life, never to be truly synthesized.

That is the beginning of knowledge—the discovery of something we do not understand.

As with all priests, you learned early to call the truth heresy.

Many things we do naturally become difficult only when we try to make them intellectual subjects. It is possible to know so much about a subject that you become totally ignorant.

Thinking you knew something was a sure way to blind yourself. It was not growing up that slowly applied brakes to learning (Mentats were taught) but an accumulation of "things I know." New

They learned early that sharing secret or private names was an ancient device for ensnaring a person in affections.

learned rapidly because his first training was in how to leam. And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn. It is shocking to find how many people do not believe they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult.

his first training was in how to learn. And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn. It is shocking to find how many people do not believe they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult.

Nepoznato se u svakom trenutku nalazi posvuda uokolo. Tu treba tražiti znanje.

Kad sam se školovao za mentata...Bilo je vrlo teško, Alija, nau?iti kako rabiti vlastiti um. Prvo nau?iš dopuštati umu samostalno djelovanje. To je vrlo ?udno. Ti možeš rabiti svoje miši?e, vježbati ih, oja?avati, ali um radi sam od sebe. Ponekad, nakon što ve? nau?iš to o umu, on ti pokazuje stvari koje ne želiš vidjeti.

You must cultivate ecological literacy among the people.

Previše znanja nikad ne dopušta jednostavne odluke.

Mentats cultivated naivete. Thinking you knew something was a sure way to blind yourself. It was not growing up that slowly applied brakes to learning (Mentats were taught) but an accumulation of "things I know.