Quotes About Learning

Boxing's not that straightforward," said Eldric. "You can practice and practice, but the real experience will always be different. Lots of things are like that, actually.

Cognition is the mental transformation of sensory input into knowledge about the environment and the flexible application of this knowledge.

Harry Harlow, a well-known American primatologist, was an early critic of the hunger reduction model. He argued that intelligent animals learn mostly through curiosity and free exploration, both of which are likely killed by a narrow fixation on food. He poked fun at the Skinner box, seeing it as a splendid instrument to demonstrate the effectiveness of food rewards but not to study complex behavior.

Would anyone test the memory of human children by throwing them into a swimming pool to see if they remember where to get out? Yet

food-deprived chickens that were not particularly good at noticing the finer distinctions of a maze task.5

Animals learn what they need to learn and have specialized ways of sifting through the massive information around them. They actively seek, collect, and store information. (p. 270)

of amazing intelligence, they learn quickly and remember easily with few repetitions. There is often an uncanny understanding of what is wanted and needed of them at any given time. Bred to love people, they bond very tightly to their owners."24 Instead

All that nature can offer is information and inspiration, not prescription.

This is clearly not so. Pigeons, for example, do better than humans at mentally rotating visual images, and some birds have an amazing memory for the location of hidden objects. Clark's nutcrackers store up to 33,000 seeds in caches distributed over many square kilometers and find most of the caches again months later.28As someone who occasionally forgets where he has parked an item as large and significant as his car, I am impressed by these peanut-brained birds.

All of this suggests that it makes sense to spend significant amounts of time reading and drawing, learning and experimenting, without guidance from instructors, peers, and experts.

Too much expertise, as we have seen, can fortify the associative barriers between fields. At the same time, expertise is clearly needed in order to develop new ideas to begin with.

The misfortune of man is that he was once a child.

Life is not a fairground, but a school. -- Franz Bardon

Do not cast your pearls before swine.

Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out of their course who set sail.

The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception.

Ich halte es mit der Gelehrsamkeit wie die Fürsten mit der Verräterei: Ich ehre die Gelehrsamkeit und verachte die Gelehrten, die eben nichts als Gelehrte sind.

Das Einmaleins ist mir bis auf diese Stunde nicht geläufig.

We should conduct ourselves so that wisdom will grow. Our organization's structures should be designed to facilitate learning at all levels, in all areas, even if at first we don't see the relevance. Professional development opportunities including seminars, university programs, special project teams, and mentoring programs are just a few examples of structured learning.

What would Buddha do to be happy? "Seek health, the greatest blessing; follow virtue. Listen to people; read good books and learn. Be truthful; break the chain of sad attachment. These six paths lead to the greatest good." Jatakas 84

Saying, I do not know,' constitutes one half of knowledge" is both a Prophetical tradition and a saying found in Graeco-Arabic wisdom literature. The phrase most widely recommended for use was lâ adrî "I do not know." Aristotle was described as saying that he was so fond of using it that he used it also in cases where he possessed the required knowledge.

Scholars who have to spend their time among ignoramuses, or, even worse, are under their control, are to be pitied. Knowledge, being more precious than pearls, must not be wasted upon the pigs who do not want it. This quotation of Matthew 7:6 is often repeated in adab works.

The knowledge scholars possess causes them to act. Eventually, they will be sought after by the people, but as true scholars, they will flee from all the worldly demands made on them. High praise is due to the man who speaks and knows, who listens and retains, who retains and acts.

Umar puts his awareness of the restlessness for more and more knowledge that possesses true scholars, in these words: "Scholars are more prone to sleeplessness and slower to have enough to eat than any guests.