Quotes About Learning

Jer savrsenog protivrecja spoj ne shvata niti mudrac, nit' glupak, nit iko. Moj prijatelju, vestina je ova koliko drevna, toliko i nova. Vazda je covek sluzio se time: trime i jednim, i jednim i trime zabludu mesto istine da slavi. I tako brblja, druge uci tako neometano, po volji i vesto. Ko bi jos budalama da se bavi? Samo li cuje reci, obicno smatra svako da se pri tom, bez sumnje, mora i misliti nesto.

Das Gebildete wird sogleich wieder ungebildet, und wir haben uns, wenn wir einigermaßen zum lebendigen Anschaun der Natur gelangen wollen, selbst so beweglich und bildsam zu erhalten, nach dem Beispiele mit dem sie uns vorgeht.

He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth

Anyone who cannot give an account to oneself of the past three thousand years remains in darkness, without experience, living from day to day.

Gdy zm?drze? chcesz, przez b??dze? brnij udr?k?, Gdy chcesz si? sta?, na w?asn? sta? si? r?k?!

Wenn du eine weise Antwort verlangst, musst du vernünftig fragen.

Habe nun, ach! Philosophie, Juristerei und Medizin, Und leider auch Theologie Durchaus studiert, mit heißem Bemühn. Da steh' ich nun, ich armer Tor, Und bin so klug als wie zuvor! Heiße Magister, heiße Doktor gar, Und ziehe schon an die zehen Jahr' Herauf, herab und quer und krumm Meine Schüler an der Nase herum - Und sehe, daß wir nichts wissen können!

Instead of failing fast, consider learning early. I find that learning early creates a different mindset for me. I now create small, safe-to-fail experiments. I manage my ambiguity around the entire deliverable by creating small steps.

People learn together by working together. Don't waste time on fake team-building activities such as anything physical. Those activities might be fun for some people, but they don't help people learn how to work together at work.

So long as the mother, Ignorance, lives, it is not safe for Science, the offspring, to divulge the hidden causes of things.

I especially love analogies, my most faithful masters, acquainted with all the secrets of nature… One should make great use of them.

Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying.

The other pillar was more original. It centered on the need to build adaptive learning organizations to succeed in counterinsurgency campaigns, which the manual described as competitions in learning.

Language is a living, kicking, growing, flitting, evolving reality, and the teacher should spontaneously reflect its vibrant and protean qualities.

Language study is a route to maturity. Indeed, in language study as in life, if a person is the same today as he was yesterday, it would be an act of mercy to pronounce him dead and to place him in a coffin, rather than in a classroom.

The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions.

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.

Let every sluice of knowledge be opened and set a-flowing.

I read my eyes out and can't read half enough.... The more one reads the more one sees we have to read.

The world grows more enlightened. Knowledge is more equally diffused.

Amidst your Ardor for Greek and Latin I hope you will not forget your mother Tongue. Read Somewhat in the English Poets every day. . . . You will never be alone, with a Poet in your Poket. You will never have an idle Hour.

Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom.

Let us tenderly and kindly cherish therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write .

I must judge for myself, but how can I judge, how can any man judge, unless his mind has been opened and enlarged by reading.