Quotes About Learning

There's nothing wrong with being a genius who can fascinate the young. Rather, there's something wrong with the young who can't be fascinated by a genius.

books look as if they contain knowledge, while e-readers look as if they contain information.

There's something wrong with the young who can't be fascinated by a genius.

Yes, of course we were pretentious—what else is youth for?

Well, getting our history wrong is part of being a person.

The dangerous charm of GPC was that everything in the world could be called up; if you didn't look out, a couple of sessions might turn you from a serious enquirer into a mere gape-mouthed browser.

Istorija yra žinomyb?, atsirandanti atminties netobulum? ir dokument? netikslum? susikirtimo taške.

His experience of life had left him with the belief that getting through the first sixteen years or so was fundamentally a question of damage limitation.

Apropo, cum preferati, autodistrugerea prin lipsa cunoasterii sau prin acumularea cunoasterii de sine?

But then we learn something else: that the brain doesm't like to be typecast. Just when you think everything is a matter of decrease, of subtraction and division, your brain, your memory, may surprise you. As it it's saying: Don't imagine you can rely on some comforting process of gradual decline--life's much more complicated than that. And so the brain will throw you scraps from time to time, even disengage those familiar memory loops.

But I was wrong about most things, then as now.

The more you learn, the less you fear.

But then, as she told herself, who would learn better than she that hindsight is a prism that alters everything?

Let the learning go on without your being too conscious of it, and it is all done more smoothly and efficiently. Sometimes too much so, for, in complex skills like typing, one may learn to consistently type 'hte' for 'the'. The remedy is to reverse the process by consciously practicing the mistake 'hte', whereupon contrary to the usual idea of 'practice makes perfect', the mistake drops away—a phenomenon called negative practice.

When she pulled it out, something tum- bled out along with it: a soft copper lock of her own hair. She went blank for a moment, thrown oddly off bal ance. The things lined up neatly on the floor in front of her were like words to a sentence in a language she had only begun learning, a sentence punctuated poignantly by a copper curl. They told a story Rebecca sensed she already half knew, she could feel it radiating, increasing in light, on the far reaches of her awareness.

But there really was no point in asking. She read things, she knew things, and out they came, little surprises. It was strangely like unwrapping little gifts, not all of which he appreciated. She clung to facts and information, like flotsam in a shipwreck. They'd saved her.

We English have perfect eyesight. Alec finally turned to look at her. Are you jesting with me, wife? You decide, husband. Aye, you are, Alec answered. I've already learned all about the English sense of humor. And what have you learned? You don't have any.

Knowledge is freedom and with freedom comes understanding.

Going to university is only one avenue to gain knowledge. There are others. A degree isn't insurance against ignorance.

The thing you learn with Potage Parmentier is that simple is not exactly the same as easy.

Boredom is why God invented books.

I could not bear his expression. That look said, this is a long good-bye, yet not time enough. I have no aptitude for this. I cannot learn this. I would hold on, and hold on, until my hands clutch at emptiness.

You must learn that such a life is not only one of privilege, but also one of service and responsibility.

Of course you will make errors; we all do. But you must learn from your mistakes. Learn quickly, and when you get something wrong, admit it and apologize.