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Quotes About Learning

But all knowledge is conveyed to us by the senses: they are our masters:
~ Roger Ariew
Knowledge begins through them and is
~ Roger Ariew
By experience we find out a short way by a long wandering.
~ Roger Ascham
It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience.
~ Roger Ascham
There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.
~ Roger Ascham
In mine opinion, love is fitter than fear, gentleness better than beating, to bring up a child rightly in learning.
~ Roger Ascham
Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty.
~ Roger Ascham
Let the master praise him, and say, 'Here ye do well.' For, I assure you, there is no such whetstone to sharpen a good wit, and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.
~ Roger Ascham
Young children were sooner allured by love, than driven by beating, to attain good learning.
~ Roger Ascham
A man, groundly learned already, may take much profit himself in using by epitome to draw other men's works, for his own memory sake, into short room.
~ Roger Ascham
It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
~ Roger Babson
Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
~ Roger Babson
The conquest of learning is achieved through the knowledge of languages.
~ Roger Bacon
Neglect of mathematics work injury to all knowledge, since he who is ignorant of it cannot know the other sciences or things of this world. And what is worst, those who are thus ignorant are unable to perceive their own ignorance, and so do not seek a remedy.
~ Roger Bacon
Now there are four chief obstacles in grasping truth, which hinder every man, however learned, and scarcely allow anyone to win a clear title to learning, namely, submission to faulty and unworthy authority, influence of custom, popular prejudice, and concealment of our own ignorance accompanied by an ostentatious display of our knowledge.
~ Roger Bacon
Wissenschaft ist Macht.
~ Roger Bacon
Asking, "What else can I do?" when you discover that you are wrong, in any situation or after suffering any personal setback, illuminates the path you need to take
~ Roger Connors
When you guide and don't tell, people may fail a bit more, but they will also grow more, learn more, have more ownership, and bring more results to the company table." Give
~ Roger Connors
Humility is a deep, authentic acknowledgment that we can't do it alone, that we should be mindful of the perspectives others bring, and that we can be better and do more with input from others.
~ Roger Connors
I'm going to work at a place I love, in an industry I love being involved in because of the challenge and excitement. Live it, breathe it, understand it, research it, study it. Learn every day.
~ Roger Connors
Failing fast involves egoless work. Egoless programming. Egoless operating. Egoless analysis. To remove ego, structure projects as a team effort. No solo acts. No product is any one person's "baby." Otherwise, people can't criticize a product without criticizing the person. To fail fast and learn quickly, remove ego and make everything a team effort.
~ Roger Connors
If you want to build a project that is perfect, you'll never succeed. You must allow failure, and people need to know it, so tell them.
~ Roger Connors
As Mark Twain reportedly said, "It's not what you don't know that gets you into trouble, it's what you know for sure that just ain't so.
~ Roger Connors
He who owns Books and loves them is wise.
~ Roger Duvoisin