Quotes About Learning

They lived in a Wikipedia world, where knowledge was no longer required and only the ability to access it mattered.

Sananlaskussa sanotaan, että vahingosta viisastuu, mutta se ei pidä paikkaansa, sillä kaikki, mitä tapahtuu, uusiintuu seuraavalla kerralla aivan eri lailla eikä ollenkaan, niin kuin sitä kuvittelee.

La sintesi è possibile solo quando c'è la conoscenza, altrimenti diventa superficialità.

Wisdom is meaningless until your own experience has given it meaning... and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.

For the first two years I was married, I thought the only flavor was charcoal.

Time is a great teacher but unfortunately it kills its pupils.

What counts are merely the experiences one gains along the way. -Reinhold Messner

I don't think we can ever learn much from ultra-sensitive, shifty faces, skilled in disguise, that hide themselves in lust, as beasts hide to die.

Several decades of research have shown that learning retention depends less on the person or the topics involved than on the delivery system. What is striking is that our traditional educational system commonly uses the two least effective methods available: lecturing and reading, through which, respectively, only 5 and 10 percent of what is taught is retained. At the other end of the spectrum, an impressive 90 percent retention rate applies to whatever one teaches others!

Success, in the words of Winston Churchill, "consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm." The greatest barriers to success so far have been the fear of failure and the failure to learn from mistakes.

many of these excellent young people could not, as a general rule, either read or write, as these activities are understood in our best universities.

A society that fears knowledge is a society that fears itself.

Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

What happens to you, Uhtred, is what you make happen. You will grow, you will learn the sword, you will learn the way of the shield wall, you will learn the oar, you will give honor to the gods, and then you will use what you have learned to make your life good or bad.

I don't know technology and engineering. I don't know accounting.

I know what I don't know. To this day, I don't know technology, and I don't know finance or accounting.

I traveled a road that was supposed to be fatal before and came out alive. I met quite a few unpleasant characters on my journey and had a few anxious moments, but I learned from them that the best weapon you can give an enemy is your own fear.

Humans don't excel at performing repetitive manual work.

We only understand what we are prepared to understand

Advances are made by answering questions. Discoveries are made by questioning answers.

I am what the librarians have made me with a little assistance from a professor of Greek and a few poets.

One teacher, Susan Atkins evoked the experience of many of her colleagues when she said, "It's not just one classroom. It's every class. There's a core and you never know what they're going to throw at you, and the other kids watch, wondering if the 'core' is going to come after them.

Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures.

We have two lives — the one we learn with and the life we live after that.