Quotes About Learning

Humans cannot be born with fully formed brains simply because the resulting head would not fit through the birth canal. Rather, our brains are built and formed after we are born, like a ship in a bottle, a process that takes fifteen, maybe twenty years.

in a 2007 study of humans, German researchers found that people learn vocabulary words 20 percent faster following exercise than they did before exercise, and that the rate of learning correlated directly with levels of BDNF.

physical activity sparks biological changes that encourage brain cells to bind to one another.

study shows that exercise—or at least the resulting fitness levels—can have a powerful impact on that fundamental skill.

One of Bob's aphorisms," says Stickgold, "is that for every two hours your brain spends taking in information during the day, it needs an hour of sleep to figure out what it means. If you don't get that hour, you don't figure it out. The difference between smart and wise is two hours more sleep a night." This idea takes on a new dimension

The body was designed to be pushed, and in pushing our bodies we push our brains too. Learning and memory evolved in concert with the motor functions that allowed our ancestors to track down food, so as far as our brains are concerned, if we're not moving, there's no real need to learn anything.

so as far as our brains are concerned, if we're not moving, there's no real need to learn anything.

One of the prominent features of exercise, which is sometimes not appreciated in studies, is an improvement in the rate of learning, and I think that's a really cool take-home message," Cotman says. "Because it suggests that if you're in good shape, you may be able to learn and function more efficiently.

One of the prominent features of exercise, which is sometimes not appreciated in studies, is an improvement in the rate of learning

By showing that exercise sparks the master molecule of the learning process, Cotman nailed down a direct biological connection between movement and cognitive function.

physical activity counts as novel experience, at least as far as the brain is concerned.

It's about growth versus decay, activity versus inactivity. The body was designed to be pushed, and in pushing our bodies we push our brains too. Learning and memory evolved in concert with the motor functions that allowed our ancestors to track down food, so as far as our brains are concerned, if we're not moving, there's no real need to learn anything.

Reading's the means by which the lowest man can lift himself from a state of ignorance.

He said he would die an educated man if he didn't live long enough to die as a free one.

Learning is not easy, but hard; culture is severe. The steps to Parnassus are steep and terribly arduous.

Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself.

Human knowledge is dark and uncertain philosophy is dark, astrology is dark, and geometry is dark.

la plus belle des savants, la plus savante des belles

Young men make mistakes. This is inevitable, in any profession.

procurar que entendiese que conocer los hechos no implica necesariamente comprenderlos.

Para ser un asesino realmente exitoso hay que tener siempre ganas de aprender

Axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses: We read fine—things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the Author.

Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?