Quotes About Learning

Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.

No one asks how to motivate a baby. A baby naturally explores everything it can get at, unless restraining forces have already been at work. And this tendency doesn't die out, it's wiped out.

A fourth-grade reader may be a sixth-grade mathematician. The grade is an administrative device which does violence to the nature of the developmental process.

Some of us learn control, more or less by accident. The rest of us go all our lives not even understanding how it is possible, and blaming our failure on being born the wrong way.

not everyone is willing to defend a position of 'not knowing.' There is no virtue in ignorance for its own sake.

The historian's rightful task is to distil experience as a medicinal warning for the future generations, not to distil a drug.

Fools say that they learn by experience. I prefer to profit by others' experience.' This saying, quoted of Bismarck,

When we hack into the ancient behavioral pathways in our brains, we gain access to the amazing human potential for learning and change.

sea of knowledge is very vast and life is short–so one should suck out the essence of all learning and cast aside the useless information by clearly sifting them through one's discertion.]

All games are meaningless if you do not know the rules.

Ignorance has no beginning, but it has an end. There is a beginning but no end to knowledge.

Without education, confidence does not come.

You must keep your balance by using the intelligence of the body (whether instinct, feeling, or ability) but not by strength. When you keep the balance by strength, it is physical action; when by intelligence of the body, it is relaxation in action. Evenness is harmony, and in that evenness alone you learn.

Pain is your guru.

The moment you say, "I have got it," you have lost everything you had.

As you take great pains to learn, continue with devotion in what you have learned. Learning is very difficult, but it is twice as difficult to keep the ground gained.

Pain comes only when the body does not understand how to do the asana, which is the case in the beginning. In the correct posture, pain does not come. To learn the right posture, you have to face the pain. There is no other way.

If you want a simple way to remember the relationship between asana and concentration (dharana), it is this: If you learn a lot of little things, one day you may end up knowing a big thing.

In this way, pain can be a great teacher, which educates us how to live with it and eventually say goodbye.

Only by not forgetting the past can we be the master of the future.

Mathematics is not how fast you calculate, rather mathematics is how well you understand. Because a calculator can solve faster than anyone, but is unable to understand the difficult problems of differential calculus and integration.

Q: How many teachers did you have? A: Myself.

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Gustavo Solivellas dice: "El Conocimiento es Poder" (Francis Bacon)