Quotes About Learning

Perfection is a road, not a destination. Every time I live, I get an education.

We must not be too proud or too stupid to profit by our mistakes—

We must not be too proud or too stupid to profit by our mistakes—and God knows we make 'em.

La ignorancia engendra el miedo.

I look, you look, he looks; we look, ye look, they look." "Upon my soul, he's been studying Murray's Grammar!

for a whale-ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.

His education was not yet completed. He was an undergraduate.

This life is slow suicide, unless you read." "Roland

experience nine times out of ten is merely stupidity hardened into habit.—Well

Only by testing do we learn what is really appealing and feasible—and, in the process, create our own opportunities.

There is not anything that can so suddenly flood the mind with shame as the conviction of ignorance, yet we are all ignorant of nearly everything there is to be known.

Why is it that when Robert Redford-cum-Denys Finch Hatton flies away in the golden glow out of Africa, he is pursuing his destiny? And when I walk away I'm just a chick who's scared of commitment and on the run, who's weird for ignoring Glamour magazine's predictions of my eggs drying up? Learning is an underrated form of liberation.

Scepticism is as much the result of knowledge, as knowledge is of scepticism. To be content with what we at present know, is, for the most part, to shut our ears against conviction; since, from the very gradual character of our education, we must continually forget, and emancipate ourselves from, knowledge previously acquired; we must set aside old notions and embrace fresh ones; and, as we learn, we must be daily unlearning something which it has cost us no small labour and anxiety to acquire.

Even a fool may be wise after the event.

Scepticism is as much the result of knowledge, as knowledge is of scepticism.

Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe.

we must set aside old notions and embrace fresh ones; and, as we learn, we must be daily unlearning something which it has cost us no small labour and anxiety to acquire.

A young man is embarrassed to question an older one.

Tell me, too, about all these things, oh daughter of Jove, from whatsoever source you may know them.

For I have seen the cities of men; and learned their manners.

It is the height of folly to be wise too late.

There is nothing I hold so cheap as a learned man , except an unlearned one .

Misfortune, the teacher of superstition. - Attributed by Walpole to his friend, Richard Bentley.

Both T cells and neural network nodes compete for the right to commandeer the resources of the system in which they abide. And both show a seeming "willingness" to live by the rules which dictate self-denial. This combination of competition and selflessness turns an agglomeration of electronic or biological components into a learning machine with a quandary-solving power vastly beyond that of any individual module it contains.