Quotes About Learning

Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.

Don't just learn from God's Word, but believe it will change your life.

Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once to get over the fear of doing it. Twice to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.

Experience, as we know, is deceptive: one judges the world through the prism of what has happened to oneself and considers this a just and reasonable approach, when in fact it is quite obviously the perfect tactic for never learning anything about anything.

Desde la última vez que nos vimos, pensé, estuvo aprendiendo a jugar, a no querer a nadie, y éste es un duro aprendizaje. Pero no había llegado aún a quererse a sí mismo, a aceptarse; era a la vez sujeto y objeto, se miraba vivir dispuesto a la sorpresa, incapaz de determinar qué actos eran suyos, cuáles prestados o cumplidos por capricho. Estaba en la edad del miedo, se protegía con dureza e intolerancia.

Como se sabe, los Borbones ni aprenden, ni olvidan.

Lo que importa no es cagarla, Yammara, óigame bien, lo que importa no es cagarla, sino saber remediar la cagada.

At the end of my second year I understood something I'd been incubating for several months: that my law studies were of no interest or use to me whatsoever, for my only obsession was reading fiction and, finally, learning how to write it.

es mucho lo que se aprende en medio siglo.

Quisiera que el prurito de ser inteligentes no estuviese siempre entre nosotros.

Ah, ah. No releas, Paul. Eres muy joven, y aquellos que releen tienden a llenarse de la sabiduría inadecuada antes de tiempo. Ahora tienes que leer, leer todo lo que puedas, lo más heterogéneo posible. Sólo cuando llegas a mis años sabes que aquello que relees no es una pérdida de tiempo.

Todo lo que había hecho en su vida antes era sentarse delante de un libro. A absorber ideas de otros, sobre todo.

Hagas lo que hagas, te equivocarás. Y cuando crezca, te echará la culpa de todos sus problemas y defectos

No leo. Releo. (I don't read. I re-read)

Credo che la maturità non porti nessuna esperienza» disse. «O dovrei dire che l'esperienza non porta nessuna maturità?»

Habría que escribir un libro útil, al alcance de todos, de instrucciones para la derrota. Eso... Porque yo no le puedo enseñar a nadie a ganar al ajedrez ni a nada. Tendría que ser una especie de recetario del perdedor vocacional.

Let your bookcases and your shelves be your gardens and your pleasure-grounds. Pluck the fruit that grows therein, gather the roses, the spices, and the myrrh.

for the most part people do not like to learn. They like to know adn they like to tell others what they know, but they do not like the process of learning...

the surest kind of knowledge is what you construct yourself.

Deep learning has instead given us machines with truly impressive abilities but no intelligence. The difference is profound and lies in the absence of a model of reality.

Another feature we lose in going from logic to uncertainty is incrementality.

Presumably the child brain is something like a notebook as one buys it from the stationer's," he wrote. "Rather little mechanism, and lots of blank sheets.

I think the best part about my dad being gay is that I'm much more open-minded. I feel more at peace and I'm a good listener. I learned so much from (my dad's partner) John. How would I have turned out if this weren't my life?

The last refuge of the intelligentsia: when life gets too difficult, go find something to read.