Quotes About Learning

Al hombre más torpe se le pueden explicar los temas más difíciles si no se ha formado todavía ninguna idea de ellos; pero no se puede aclarar ni aun lo más sencillo al hombre más inteligente si está firmemente convencido de que conoce ya, sin la menor sombra de duda, lo que se presenta ante él.   LIEV TOLSTÓI, 1897

Experience is making the same mistake over and over again, only with greater confidence

The gist of it was that people don't learn what is imposed upon them but rather what they freely seek, out of desire or need.

downside to experience. "Experience is making the same mistake over and over again, only with greater confidence," he said. The line wasn't his, but he liked it.

I think it is easier to take someone in the fishing industry and teach him about currency trading," he says, "than to take someone from the banking industry and teach them how to fish." He then explained why fishing

It's supply and demand," he said. "My sister teaches kids with learning disabilities. She enjoys her work as much as I do, but earns much less. If nobody else wanted to teach, she'd make more money." Say what you will about the analysis.

I recall that one of the first investment bankers I met taught me a poem. God gave you eyes, plagiarize. A

The only thing history teaches us, a wise man once said, is that history doesn't teach us anything. O

Hannah's dad had a habit of never walking home the same way twice, with the intention of giving her a sense of how it all fitted together. What he'd actually achieved was to fail to provide a dependable route. As she stood confused on the corner, turning in a circle, it struck Hannah this happened all the time - grown-ups trying to teach you things in the wrong way, their way, that only made sense if you already knew what you were trying to learn.

The storage capacity of the average human brain is two-hundred and fifty-six exabytes. However, the average adult human only uses approximately one billionth of that storage space effectively. This means my knowledge capacity is approximately three thousand trillion times that of your average human.

One day, she told us, you'll have to leave here and go out into the big world out there and earn your living like everyone else. To do that you need to learn. The more you learn now, the more interesting your life will be.

good experiences give us happiness but bad experiences teach us good lessons

but we can only question what we know.

Education is not acquiring a stock of ready-made ideas, images, sentiments, beliefs and so forth; it is learning to look, to listen, to think, to feel, to imagine, to believe, to understand, to choose and to wish.

Every human being is born an heir to an inheritance to which he can succeed only in the process of learning.

if you do not plunder the past, the absence feeds on you

We are foolish as teenagers. We say wrong things, do not know how to be modest, or less shy. We judge easily. But the only hope given us, although only in retrospect, is that we change. We learn, we evolve. What I am now was formed by whatever happened to me then, not by what I have achieved, but by how I got here.

A writer's mind must never be closed. It's his duty to be curious and my duty to feed the curiosity. Think of it as the start of a big adventure.

In reality, many universities have direct investments in corporate America in the form of substantial stock portfolios. By purchase and persuasion, our institutions of higher learning are wedded to institutions of higher earning.

Know everything.  Pretend you know nothing, but know it all.

I think of childhood as the R&D stage of the species, concerned exclusively with learning and exploring. We adults are production and marketing.

forgetting is vastly underrated as a mental operation.

Great cooking is all about the three 'p's: patience, presence, and practice.

The short summary is, babies and children are basically tripping all the time.