Quotes About Learning

Every exchange contained a lesson, like the pit in a cherry. To this day the Socratic method makes me want to bite someone.

But where you succeed will never matter so much as where you fail. .

Human children overimitate, reproducing each step regardless of its necessity. There is some reason why, now that it's our behavior, being slavishly imitative is superior to being thoughtful and efficient

Where you succeed will never so much matter as where you fail. -We Are All Beside Ourselves

WHERE YOU SUCCEED will never matter so much as where you fail," I said.

somewhere on earth, there was always a book with an answer in it, and the best way to find that answer was to read every book you could get your hands on.

Proactive interference," Paul would have explained. "It's when previously acquired information inhibits our ability to process new information.

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Which was a damn good thing, because if another human being treated you the way a toddler did—threw food in your face, questioned your every move, unraveled all of the aluminum foil off the roll, yelled at the silverware, made you clean shit off their ass, peed in your bed, peed in your car, peed on you while you were cleaning up their pee, demanded that you repeat everything at least sixteen times and then screeched at you for talking too much—then you would probably kill them.

The biggest obstacle to learning something new is the belief that you already know it.

Un niño escribió: El cuerpo humano está formado por el cerébreo, el bórax y la cavidad abominable. El cerébreo contiene el cerebro. El bórax contiene los pulmones, el hígado y otros seres vivos. La cavidad abominable contiene los intestinos, que son dos: el gordo y el flaco.1 Es

the older and younger Blumhardt and their friends. There would have been something significant to learn—as later developments prove—from the books of Friedrich Zündel, for example.

felsefe yapmak ölmeyi öÄŸrenmektir.

For every book you buy, you should buy the time to read it.

Stuff your brain with knowledge.

Books are a hard-bound drug with no danger of an overdose i'm the happy victim of books

I am a machine condemned to devour books.

The education of all children, from the moment that they can get along without a mother's care, shall be in state institutions.

Ignorance never yet helped anybody.

Non c'è via maestra per la scienza, e solo hanno una probabilità di raggiungerne le vette luminose coloro che non temono di affaticarsi a salirne i ripidi sentieri.

Thus does the beginner, who has acquired a new language, keep on translating it back into his own mother tongue; only then has he grasped the spirit of the new language and is able freely to express himself therewith when he moves in it without recollections of the old, and has forgotten in its use his own hereditary tongue.

Knowledge is annoying

a man be wise it is no shame for him to live and learn.' Sophocles.

Perhaps sex was something you had to learn and then stick at until you were good at it, like hockey or the piano. But an initial lesson would be helpful.