Quotes About Learning

Don't squander precious ignorance by researching it away.

it is ultimately these mistakes that make evolution possible.

giving children something with which to surprise their parents is one of the greatest gifts a teacher can bestow.

Survival machines that can simulate the future are one jump ahead of survival machines who can only learn on the basis of overt trial and error.

obscurantism in an academic subject expands to fill the vacuum of its intrinsic simplicity.

It is the joy of true education: of reading for the sake of a wonderful book rather than for an exam; of following up a subject because it is fascinating rather than because it is on a syllabus; of watching a great teacher's eyes light up for sheer love of the subject.

Personally I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world championship. Humanitiy needs a lesson in humility.

I had begun with the comforting conclusion that books are the tongue of divine wisdom, and had ended only with the thin hunch that all books are grand follies, destined forever to be misunderstood.

It is not that you know nothing about war, young man, Dorrigo Evans had said. It is that you have learnt one thing. And war is many things.

Voyez-vous, d'après mon expérience, c'est quand on a l'impression de ne pas progresser qu'on avance sans doute le plus. »

Something draws you... An impatience with your own ignorance.

Each of the positive and negative events of our lives, especially traumatic ones, help to shape us just as a raw diamond is made beautiful by the process of carving and polishing the rough stone until it awakens as a brilliant gemstone. It is only through the testing of our capabilities through trials and challenges that we can learn the deeper meanings of our lives.

A related but more complex aspect of working memory gives us the ability to draw on past learning or experience and apply it to the situation at hand or predict future outcomes.

Psychologists tell us that in order to learn from experience, two ingredients are necessary: frequent practice and immediate feedback.

What you learn from others you can use to follow. What you learn for yourself you can use to lead.

Vicarious learning from the experiences of others saves making errors yourself, but I regard the study of successes as being basically more important than the study of failures. There are so many ways of being wrong and so few of being right, studying successes is more efficient.

It is not easy to become an educated person.

The applications of knowledge, especially mathematics, reveal the unity of all knowledge. In a new situation almost anything and everything you ever learned might be applicable, and the artificial divisions seem to vanish.

This is a book about thinking. One cannot talk about thinking in the abstract, at least not usefully. But one can talk about thinking about digital filters, and by studying how great scientists thought about digital filters, one learns, however gradually, to think like a great scientist.

Cognitive sorting continues from the time that students enter college to the time they get a degree

I already have a doctorate in conflict investment. I don't really need the gifted-amateur reading list.

His way to wisdom was to hear out others who might or might not know any more than he did and then to sift it all through his own mental strainer.

Give yourself permission to be a beginner. By being willing to be a bad artist, you have a chance to be an artist, and perhaps, over time, a very good one.

But do you know how old I will be by the time I learn to really play the piano/act/paint/write a decent play?" Yes ... the same age you will be if you don't. So let's start.