Quotes About Learning

The fairly recent discovery that all of the water supplies in the industrialized countries are contaminated with minute amounts of antibiotics (from their excretion into water supplies) means that bacteria everywhere are experiencing low doses of antibiotics all the time. This exposure is exponentially driving resistance learning; the more antibiotics that go into the water, the faster the bacteria learn.

I was never able to find it in the analysis of chemicals or in degree programs or in any of my schools. But sometimes I find it in the soft flutter of butterflies, in the wildness of plants growing undomesticated in a forest clearing, in the laughter and running of young children, their hair flowing in the wind, and sometimes, sometimes I find it in the words of teachers who come among us from time to time—out there, far outside these walls, in the wildness of the world.

Children who begin working at an early age with music have, as habit, much less pre-attentional or unconscious gating in the neural network that attends to sound. Gating, in general, develops over time and with exposure, the pre-attentional self learning to gate whatever is not important to the conscious mind. Children, by nature, have much less gating than adults—gating

Killing off mature ecosystems results in the loss of cultural learning among the world's ecosystem communities. Or as Albert Einstein once observed, "Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.

Go to the pine if you want to learn about the pine, or to the bamboo if you want to learn about the bamboo. And in doing so, you must leave your subjective preoccupation with yourself. Otherwise you impose yourself on the object and do not learn.

Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.

One historian has remarked that "the process by which the learning of the Islamic world was discovered, appropriated, colonised by Western scholars, and made widely accessible by means of translation into Latin, the international language of scholarship ... was one of the turning-points in the intellectual evolution of mankind."8

The public library was more accommodating;

Contrary to current cynicism about past golden ages, the abstraction known as 'the intelligent layperson' does exist - in the form of millions of folks with a passionate commitment to continuous learning.

The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.

When people learn no tools of judgment and merely follow their hopes, the seeds of political manipulation are sown.

Sit down, have a nice cup of coffee read a book in another language - the fountain of youth!

We live better lives when we learn from our dreams.

Life is a school of the spirit.

Knowledge is a burden--once taken up, it can never be discarded.

education that stops with school stops where it is beginning.

Left untended, knowledge and skill, like all assets, depreciate in value—surprisingly quickly. —DAVID MAISTER, BUSINESS AUTHOR AND CONSULTANT

What are you reading, watching, memorizing, and applying that will make you an exceptional man?

Example 3. (T: Male Mandarin teacher in his late twenties. B1 and B2 boys about 13 years old; G1: a 12-year-old girl.) T: (Speaking slowly as he writes on the whiteboard) ?-?-? (bai wulong). Mess up. ?? (wulong), black dragon. ??? ???? Wulong Tea, do you know? Black Dragon tea. ?? (wulong)? means /mI ?eIp/.

Your failures don't define you, but they can refine you.

If your mind is empty, it is open to everything. In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities; in the expert's mind there are few.

One advantage of collaboration is that it's much easier to learn from someone else than from yourself. And inertia, which is often a major block in solitary work, hardly exists at all here: A releases B's energy, B releases A's energy. Information flows and multiplies easily. Learning becomes many-sided, a refreshing and vitalizing force.

A man can learn much, but learning is not knowledge. The only true source of infallible certainity is divine illumination.

to learn and not to do is really not to learn. To know and not to do is really not to know.