Quotes About Learning

that is the journey of your life, godling, to learn the language of your soul, to learn it to learn it even as you live it.

Never be too easy with the knowledge you possess. Words are like coin—it pays to hoard.

they make me think of that boy, the way he always got into things he shouldn't have. Wits enough to be curious, not smart enough to be cautious.

History comforts the dull-witted

A civilization can as easily drown in what it knows as in what it doesn't know.

He's new to responsibility, Captain. You'll have to teach him." Teach him what? How to live beneath the burden of command? That's something I can't manage myself. I need only look into Whiskeyjack's face to understand that no one can - no-one who has a heart, anyway. We learn to achieve but one thing: the ability to hide our thoughts, to mask our feelings, to bury our humanity deep in our souls. And that can't be taught, only shown.

Hadrian cleared his throat and said, "Listen, HUB - oh and do thank Tammy for teaching you Terranglais. Hub, I have, uh, a question for you." "Proceed, Disappointingly Predictable and Wholly Enervating on the Spiritual-IQ Sentience-Complex Nodal Biological

Twenty thousand? Fifty? Five? Scholars make a career of not agreeing on anything.

Pou?ení z historie je to, že se z ní nikdy nikdo nepou?í.

Comicons and Science Fiction conventions are always fun. Besides, the days of the secluded writer are long gone. What's ironic is that the modern age has forced the most introverted, shy, and anxious segment of the population into the limelight. Adapt or disappear, and for most of us, conventions are a safe place in which we can learn how to be public figures. And then there's the blowhards? Did I mention the blowhards?

Giving advice to a child is like flinging sand at an obsidian wall. Nothing sticks. The brutal truth is that we each suffer our own lessons – they can't be danced round. They can't be slipped past. You cannot gift a child with your scars – they arrive like webs, constricting, suffocating, and that child will struggle and strain until they break. No matter how noble your intent, the only scars that teach them anything are the ones they earn themselves.

The lesson of history is that no one learns.

I always tell my clients that they can learn a lot by watching and analyzing other companies that are in crisis, especially competitors. (As that great philosopher Yogi Berra once said, "You can observe a lot by just watching.") For one thing, if a company in your industry group suffers a crisis, could you be next? Figure it out and govern yourself accordingly.

I feel at peace, content. My questions have been answered. I can accept my alone-life, knowing it's purpose. Interaction, love, is the purpose and the core. Now I see the possibility of a different kind of interaction - and it is something that I can start to learn as soon as I get home, beginning with my little place/house and my plants. How to interact with people this way I do not yet know. [Gift Bearer]

The most important task of teaching is to teach what it means to know.

Operant conditioning. A reflexive response.

It isn't necessary to learn how to do calculus to appreciate it, just as it isn't necessary to learn how to prepare fine cuisine to enjoy eating it.

Feynman asked Wouk if he knew calculus. No, Wouk admitted, he didn't. "You had better learn it," said Feynman. "It's the language God talks.

Looking at numbers as groups of rocks may seem unusual, but actually it's as old as math itself. The word "calculate" reflects that legacy -- it comes from the Latin word calculus, meaning a pebble used for counting. To enjoy working with numbers you don't have to be Einstein (German for "one stone"), but it might help to have rocks in your head.

Those of us who teach math should try to turn this bug into a feature. We should be up front about the fact that word problems force us to make simplifying assumptions. That's a valuable skill—it's called mathematical modeling.

First comes intuition. Rigor comes later.

That latter result, 3 + 10/70, reduces to 22/7, the famous approximation to ? that all students still learn today and that some unfortunately mistake for ? itself.

All you have to do is move around and meet new people to realize how dumb you really are.

Let failure be your workshop. See it for what is is: the world walking you through a tough but necessary semester, free of tuition. (from Workbook)