Quotes About Learning

Intolerance. The person with a "closed" mind on any subject seldom gets ahead. Intolerance means that one has stopped acquiring knowledge. The most damaging forms of intolerance are those connected with religious, racial, and political differences of opinion.

Every person should make it his business to gather new ideas from sources other than the environment in which he daily lives and works.

No man's education is ever finished. A man's reading program should be as carefully planned as his daily diet, for that too is food, without which he cannot mentally develop.

Pessoas que abrem mão de parte de seu tempo livre para fazer cursos raramente ficam na parte de baixo por muito tempo. Fazendo esses cursos, elas abrem caminho para a subida, removem muitos obstáculos do trajeto e atraem o interesse daqueles que têm o poder para ajudá

When you do your work better To-day than Yesterday you realize your genuine Capacity and know that there is no actual Perfection except the Perfection of doing better To-day than Yesterday.

Failure to read and comply with pertinent material. Your

SPECIALIZED KNOWLEDGE is among the most plentiful, and the cheapest forms of service which may be had!

We form habits based on the degree of reinforcement we receive.

If we try something and like the results, we repeat the action.

As Carlyle put it—"All that mankind has done, thought, gained or been—it is lying in matchless preservation in the pages of books.

Ricordate inoltre che ogniqualvolta aprite la bocca in presenza di una persona che possiede abbondanza di cognizioni, le mostrate l'esatta riserva delle vostre conoscenze, o la loro mancanza! La vera saggezza è caratterizzata dalla modestia e dal silenzio.

The books awed her by size, thickness, the staggering mass of lines and words to read before she could read all of them. Then having read all of the books must she carry in her head all that knowledge from the books? This too staggered her. Wouldn't my head feel queer? she asked Elder Brewster. Wouldn't my head feel heavy carrying so much knowledge? Could any of it spill out if there was too much?

Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.

To be a good loser is to learn how to win.

Is a little experience too much to pay for learning to know oneself?

history had no lessons or rules to offer the student, it could only broaden his understanding and strengthen his critical judgment.

Infants prefer to look at dots that move in biological patterns rather than random ones. They will look longer at geometrical shapes that seem to be self-propelled than ones that seem to move passively. Children also have a bias toward life in the way they learn: they can learn about animals faster than inanimate objects, and they hold on to the memories of what they learn longer. Our knowledge of life, in other words, arises long before we can tell ourselves what we know.

I never knew any man who had once tasted the sweetness of experimental knowledge, that ever afterward fasted after ye Vapour garlick and onions of phantasmatical seeming philosophy. [William Petty]

A man goes to knowledge as he goes to war, wide awake, with fear, with respect, and with absolute assurance.

Power rests on the kind of knowledge one holds. What is the sense of knowing things that are useless?

We don't need anyone to teach us sorcery, because there is really nothing to learn. What we need is a teacher to convince us that there is incalculable power at our fingertips. What a strange paradox!

Añadió que nada en este mundo era un regalo: todo cuanto hubiera que aprender debía aprenderse por el camino difícil.

It isn't that as time goes by you're learning sorcery; rather, what you're learning is to save energy. And this energy will enable you to handle some of the energy fields that are not employed in perceiving the ordinary world we know. Sorcery is a state of awareness.

Every warrior on the path of knowledge thinks, at one time or another, that he's learning sorcery, but all he's doing is allowing himself to be convinced of the power hidden in his being, and that he can reach it.