Quotes About Learning

To remain innocent may also be to remain ignorant.

That baby has got to learn things including remaining erect & on deck & all, her study of herself must include no wings. She's sturdy, beautiful, & she will do, unless the universal homage turns her head as it might well do mine, hypnotized by the Little Baby...

Physical growth is a function of time. No two-year-old child has ever been six feet tall. Intellectual growth is a function of learning. Spiritual growth is neither a function of time or learning, but it is a function of obedience.

YOU GROW MORE FROM THE MOST CHALLENGING OFFENSES—THE ONES FOR WHICH YOU HAVE NOT BEEN TRAINED.

Politicians, like generals, have a tendency to fight the last war.

Regular monitoring both of behavioural progress and of consequences is of course necessary if the organism is to learn.

the consequences of some behaviour are experienced as pleasurable or painful, the quicker and more persistent is the ensuing learning likely to be.

Just because a man glances up at the sky at night does not make him an astronomer, you know.

The knowledge of the ancient languages is mainly a luxury.

If everyone had the same education, the inequality of income would be reduced by less than 10 percent.

If, by contrast, you think that uncovering your mistakes is one of the best ways to revise and improve your understanding of the world, then this is actually a highly optimistic insight.

us measure progress not by what is discovered but rather by the growing list of mysteries that remind us of how little we really know.

information available from the retina and other sensory organs is not sufficient to reconstruct the world. Size, distance, and other properties need to be inferred from uncertain cues, which in turn have to be learned by experience. Based on this experience, the brain draws unconscious inferences about what a sensation means. In other words, perception is a kind of bet about what's really out there.

One of my favorites is "If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research.

Mark Twain said: "What gets us into trouble is not what we don't know, it's what we know for sure that just ain't so.

A total synthesis of all human knowledge will not result in huge libraries filled with books, in fantastic amounts of data stored on servers. There's no value any more in amount, in quantity, in explanation. For a total synthesis of human knowledge, use the interrogative.

that's the way of all good explanations. The better they are, the more questions they raise.

When Max Planck began studying physics at the University of Munich in 1874, his teacher, Philipp von Jolly, warned him that it was already a mature field, with little more to learn.

The danger in ingenious hardware is that it distracts attention from education. What good is a wonderful machine if you don't know what to put on it?

You don't bother to memorise the literature—you learn to read and keep a shelf of books.

There is no barrier so strong as that of ignorance.

Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.

I go to books and to nature as the bee goes to a flower, for a nectar that I can make into my own honey.

To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.