Quotes About Learning

What the public wants is a little intellectual 'kick', and nothing else has quite the kick of mathematics.

To read means to borrow to create out of one's readings is paying off one's debts.

No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.

One half who graduate from college never read another book.

Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization.

If one character, one pause, of the incantation is not strictly in proper form, the magic doesn't work. Human beings are not accustomed to being perfect, and few areas of human activity demand it. Adjustment to the requirement for perfection is, I think, the most difficult part of learning to program." The

Most code writers were like gifted athletes; they learned by doing and could not explain their actions. They just did it. This method, while fine for getting started, often hampered efforts at making code faster, which required unblinking self-analysis. "The secret to optimizing speed" he said, "is to ask yourself, 'What does this code actually need to do? What's the least work I can do to solve this problem?' " All

The veterans would spend so much time tutoring the novices that they would lose track of their work. And by the time the new hires learned enough really to help, the group would have missed the deadline anyway. "For the same reason," Perazzoli said, "your wife's not going to have a baby in three months if you give her two more people." Even

The scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer. Indeed the measure of our intellectual maturity, one philosopher suggests, is our capacity to feel less and less satisfied with our answers to better problems.

How is a boy's mind to expand if he does not ask questions, and who should be so well able to answer his questions as his father?

I was advised to read Jordan's 'Cours d'analyse'; and I shall never forget the astonishment with which I read that remarkable work, the first inspiration for so many mathematicians of my generation, and learnt for the first time as I read it what mathematics really meant.

In these days of conflict between ancient and modern studies, there must surely be something to be said for a study which did not begin with Pythagoras, and will not end with Einstein, but is the oldest and the youngest of all.

To know means to know all. Not to know all means not to know. In order to know all, it is only necessary to know a little. But, in order to know this little, it is first necessary to know pretty much.

Knowledge can be acquired by a suitable and complete study, no matter what the starting point is. Only one must know how to 'learn.' What is nearest to us is man; and you are the nearest of all men to yourself. Begin with the study of yourself; remember the saying 'Know thyself.

Live a life of friction. Let yourself be disturbed as much as possible, but observe.

All this teaching given in fragments must be pieced together, and observations and actions must be connected to it. If there is no paste, nothing will stick.

I teach that when it rains the pavement gets wet.

Despre dezvoltarea societ??ii: "Cu cât o societate ofer? mai pu?ine alternative, cu atât proiectele indivizilor decurg din cele câteva proiecte ?i norme oficial recunoscute, cu cât o societate las? loc mai pu?in loc pentru cultura îndoielii ?i pentru înv??ul dezv??ului, cu atât prostia ca încremenire în proiect câ?tig? teren ?i scleroza acelei societ??i este mai mare

nimeni nu se na?te "bou", ci doar devine a?a.

la na?tere, creierul unei fiin?e umane este preg?tit s?-?i fac? treaba, dar esen?ial este ce-i d?m s? fac? ?i cu cum îl hr?nim. Un specialist ne va vorbi nu despre num?rul de neuroni, ci despre conexiunile care se creeaz? între ei.

L-am intrebat de ce citeste la nesfarsit pe marii ganditori ai lumii devreme ce nu vrea sa publice nimic? "Pentru ca nu vreau decat sa inteleg. Nu vreau sa mor bou." a fost raspunsul. Cei mai multi dintre noi traim fara sa fi inteles nimic. Sau, mai rau inca, fara sa ne fi propus sa intelegem ceva.

La educación es, tal vez, la forma más alta de buscar a Dios.

Devíamos sempre aprender a amar-nos; é o único romance que dura a vida inteira.

To become a great teacher, one must become a teaching.