Quotes About Learning

We called him Tortoise because he taught us.

Going to the blackboard at school was the worst torture.

At 15, 16, life is being tossed at you.

This means that no single logic is strong enough to support the total construction of human knowledge.

The only way a kid is going to practice is if it's total fun for him... and it was for me.

When I enrolled in college at age 19, I had a total of eight years of formal classroom education. As a result, I was not comfortable with formal lectures and receiving regular homework assignments.

The use of computers and other mobile devices has to be so carefully controlled. As we discovered with 'Dream School' rather awkwardly, it can become a source of total disruption that destroys the co-operative learning experience.

So I guess I had, I think they tell me I had, about three years total of piano lessons, off and on.

She's a total professional, a diva, a mega-star, not just in music but in the entertainment industry. You always learn from the greats, and J.Lo is one.

I've seen that phenomenally successful people believe they can learn something from everybody. I call them 'mavericks with mentors.' Richard Branson, for instance, is a total maverick but he surrounds himself with incredibly successful, smart people and he listens to them.

I was a total education geek. I loved school. I loved learning. I loved doing homework. All of my books and notebooks from high school are underlined and highlighted and there are notes all over the margins. And you know, I was a theater kid too. I was all over the place.

I was such a screwup when I got to the big leagues. I was a total idiot.

I have to say, without sounding like a total tosser, that everything I've learned in life, and that has taken me out of my natural interior life, has been with men. They exposed me to things that I wasn't aware of. I learned from all the guys.

After I graduated from Brandeis, I took all the money I had in the world, which was $5,000, and I made a short film. I made every mistake you could possibly make. It was a total disaster as a piece of work, and yet, you know, it was ambitious in some way.

I'm a total nerd, so I'm on my telescope, or I read a lot. I'm very inspired by ancient history.

I'm always going to be making costumes. It's one of the ways I relax my brain. In addition to the pleasure of having the piece, there is a deep and abiding pleasure for me assembling something in my head - learning to know something in its totality in my head, and then putting together all the constituent parts into a cohesive whole.

I frequently meet ex-pupils who seem to think I didn't totally ruin their educations, so that's something.

I think it is totally wrong and terribly harmful if education is defined as acquiring knowledge.

You've got a great chance in college to do all sorts of terrible irresponsible things, and you should totally do them. I mean, make huge mistakes. This is the time in your life if you screw up, it's okay because you can bounce back from it.

You get better at the thing you do by having to explain it to someone else. That, I think, totally makes my work stronger.

In theory, I always think I should totally go back to school, because I don't want to start sinking slowly... I want to learn, blah blah blah. Then I think about actually going and sitting in classes and, man, it sounds terrible.

Intellectual fascination crosses many boundaries.

la ciencia es un viaje en el que buena parte de la diversión está, sin duda alguna, en el trayecto.

Bayes teaches us (1) never to assign perfect certainty to any such belief; (2) always to be prepared to update our credences when new evidence comes along; and (3) how exactly such evidence alters the credences we assign. It's a road map for coming closer and closer to the truth.