Quotes About Learning

even the smartest people tend to seek out evidence that confirms what they already think, rather than new information that would give them a more robust view of reality.

For until you can admit what you don't yet know, it's virtually impossible to learn what you need to.

offer an environment that is simply not conducive to learning.

But while there are exceptions to every rule, it's also good to know the rule.

Until you can admit what you don't yet know, it's virtually impossible to learn what you need to.

Experience is a hard teacher. She gives the test first and the lessons afterwards. —Anonymous

Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order. —John Adams

Colleges should offer lots of optional life-enriching experiences, like intramural basketball and a place to sunbathe. But reading books, like basketball or sunbathing, is a leisure activity, neither more nor less admirable than any other, and colleges should not pretend otherwise.

Of course, ideas can always be misleading—but then so can numbers. Still, we advance by learning new ways to think, even if those ways are not infallible. Much

Because each day is different, I thrive on creating something out of nothing, and I love running a business. I also flourish when I know what's going on across the company and who's doing what with whom and why. I love learning from customers, and I marvel at the knowledge and experience of people who contribute to the creation of great products.

Humans had proven to be unusually good at learning to recognize visual patterns; we internalize our alphabets so well we don't even have to think about reading once we've learned how to do it.

cities have marvelous innate abilities for understanding, communicating, contriving and inventing what is required to combat their difficulties," she wrote. They get their order from below; they are learning machines, pattern recognizers—even when the patterns they respond to are unhealthy ones.

De Forest was wrong about the utility of gas as a detector, but he kept probing at the edges of that error, until he hit upon something that was genuinely useful. Being right keeps you in place. Being wrong forces you to explore.

Steven Johnson

John Locke first began maintaining a commonplace book in 1652, during

If the commonplace book tradition tells us that the best way to nurture hunches is to write everything down, the serendipity engine of the Web suggests a parallel directive: look everything up.

Being wrong on its own doesn't unlock new doors in the adjacent possible, but it does force us to look for them.

The trouble with error is that we have a natural tendency to dismiss it.

Motivation is what gets you into this game; learning is what helps you continue to play; creativity is how you steer; and flow is how you turbo-boost the results beyond all rational standards and reasonable expectations.

Neurons that fire together wire together.

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom,"24 William Blake

Motivation is what gets you into this game; learning is what helps you continue to play; creativity is how you steer; and flow is how you turbo-boost the results beyond all rational standards and reasonable expectations. That, my friends, is the real art of impossible.

Experiencing the selflessness, timelessness, effortlessness, and richness of nonordinary states of consciousness can accelerate learning, facilitate healing, and provide measurable impact in our lives and work. But we have to revise or tactics and upend convention to make the most of those advantages.

We all see farther by standing on the shoulders of giants.