Quotes About Learning

An hour or two of learning from the masters is usually enough to recharge my artistic batteries.

If I were going to tell one of my sons how to possess the world, I would simply bring him into my house, show him that solid wall of books, and say to him: 'the secret is in there somewhere, and even if you never find out what it is, you will still have come closer.

Arbitrary benchmarks cheat kids out of a fulfilling education.

Enjoy failure and learn from it. You can never learn from success.

Failure is an enigma. You worry about it, and it teaches you something.

Learning by trial and error, or experimentation, can be exciting, the lessons learned deeply engrained. Learning by failure is a remarkably good way of gaining knowledge. Failure is to be welcomed rather than avoided. It is a part of learning. It should not be feared by the engineer or scientist or indeed by anyone else.

A knowledge of general literature is one of the evidences of an enlightened mind; and to give an apt quotation at a fitting time, proves that the mind is stored with sentential lore that can always be used to great advantage by its possessor.

Books are the beehives of thought; laconics, the honey taken from them.

The great opposition to reading is what I allow to fill my time instead of reading. To say we have no time to read is not really true; we simply have chosen to use our time for other things, or have allowed our time to be filled to the exclusion of reading. So don't add reading to your to-do list. Just stop doing the things that keep you from doing it. But read.

Computer engineers of today are likely to find that if they have a two-week holiday they may miss a crucial new development in computing. Similarly, those wishing to keep abreast of mechanical engineering in the late nineteenth century had little choice but to keep working at the coalface where knowledge was being sledge-hammered out of the rock of ignorance.

Your young white, who gathers his learning from books and can measure what he knows by the page, may conceit that his knowledge, like his legs, outruns that of his fathers', but, where experience is the master, the scholar is made to know the value of years, and respects them accordingly.

Intelligence normally entails two interrelated but somewhat different components. The first involves effective adaptation to an environment.

I think it is most important for a teacher to play the pieces and studies that are being played by the student.

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Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.

We often forget that the journey is just as important as the end destination, and evolution occurs all along the way.

It is not the amount of knowledge that makes a brain. It is not even the distribution of knowledge. It is the interconnectedness.

Forgetting used to be a failing, a waste, a sign of senility. Now it takes effort. It may be as important as remembering.

The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting of an old one.

Everyone, young and old, must have access to the knowledge and skills to participate in the evolving economy.

Woe to our time, for the study of letters has perished from among us.

This old man had once told me that he left school when he was twelve, whereas I had spent most of the twenty-four years in my life in study. Yet when I looked back on the last hour or so I could come to only one conclusion. I'd had more of books, but he had more of learning.

What if people come and take all the books away and melt them like they did to the motorcars?' 'Books don't melt.