Quotes About Learning

I did learn Chinese kung-fu in a school for a short time, but I couldn't afford to pay for long-term learning.

heard how badly I mangled French. Even if it was no good for my education, I was delighted to find that

Cynics always say no. Saying yes leads to knowledge. So for as long as you have the strength to, say yes.

If I had a dime for everytime that I was wrong, I'd be broke.

Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the farthest thing from it. Because cynics don't learn anything. Because cynicism is a self-imposed blindness, a rejection of the world because we are afraid it will hurt us or disappoint us.

Wikipedia is the first place I go when I'm looking for knowledge... or when I want to create some.

In his late teens, and probably as a result of Neefe's coaching, Beethoven began to read widely and voraciously. This is when he began to frame his life as a quest to

Mistakes are always mistakes, Or so I've heard them say... But if it teaches a lesson, The mistake will go away.

The better the school library, the higher the reading scores.

Older acquirers progress more quickly in early stages because they obtain more comprehensible input, while younger acquirers do better in the long run because of their lower affective filters.

The central hypothesis of the theory is that language acquisition occurs in only one way: by understanding messages.

I spent a little time in Germany as a schoolboy learning German, and it's a country I knew very well, spent a lot of time in. I knew the history very well. I've always wanted to do a piece of work about the post-war period, of one sort or another.

You should welcome your ignorance because it enables you to learn. (31)

In high school, American history had been a happy story; now Chihani told them the sad one.

The Enlightenment taught that observation unrecorded was knowledge lost.

The only reason people do not know much is because they do not care to know. They are incurious. Incuriousity is the oddest and most foolish failing there is.

Education is the sum of what students teach each other between lectures and seminars.

The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom.

The saying is actually 'Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.'

He said I would think I was getting better at it, being a boyfriend, but that I was going to have to learn not to listen to that kind of bullshit from myself. Just when I thought I'd figured out what made a girlfriend happy, what would make one stay, I would do something wrong again and that would be that.

When we were leaving he shook his head, said it must be great to be young and endlessly stupid.

How much of life have I wasted by believing the thing I was taught, that thinking is what makes us better, that the brain is superior to heart. —AUTHOR'S JOURNAL, JUNE 2001

Gregory Bateson once put it . . . The human being, depersonified in his own talk and thought, may indeed learn more thingish habits of action.16

Or as Luther Burbank put it, "It is repetition, repetition, repetition that habituates the skill.