Quotes About Learning

Everyone you meet knows something you don't know but need to know. Learn from them.

At that time I was still in that childlike state where life consists of single, unrelated experiences.

We must make mistakes. We must live out our own vision of life. . .If you avoid error you do not live; in a sense even it may be said that every life is a mistake, for no one has found the truth.

try to plant the results of my experience in the soil of reality;

Thus, my friends, you learn much about the world, and through it about yourself, by what I say to you here. But you have not learned anything about your mysteries in this way; indeed, your way is darker than before, since my example will stand obstructively in your path. You may follow me, not on my way, but on yours.

concentrating on those classics which school, with its needlessly laborious explanations of the obvious, had not spoiled for me.

old Carnegie library

Hide in plain sight, that was the way out here. He would learn something from that.

Americans don't read very much.

We shouldn't automatically oppose everything. I mean, what makes us so fucking smart? We're the beneficiaries of people before us figuring out shit that makes our lives better or helps us live longer. Why stop now, just because we think we know it all?

Collecting information is easy. Reviewing and applying information is hard.

Students in the school of prayer never graduate from the school of the Gospel.

asked if he wants to repeat 6th grade Garry says "That's okay. I've got to go to school 'til I'm 16 anyway. What's the difference what grade I'm in when I get done?

If we did not bring to the examinations of our instincts a knowledge of their comparative dignity we could never learn it from them

Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.î

The most difficult problem is not that of wanting to learn. It is time. With enough time you might learn to listen and to walk. And with enough time I would listen to you, and walk your way without undoing mine. With sufficient time everything will again belong to everybody. We will be able to exist in our life, and at the same time in the life of all persons who were once things, and in the life of things that later are to be persons.

You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read.

Two Core Abilities for Thriving in the New Economy 1. The ability to quickly master hard things. 2. The ability to produce at an elite level, in terms of both quality and speed.

If you can't learn, you can't thrive.

If you're not uncomfortable, then you're probably stuck at an "acceptable level.

Doing things we know how to do well is enjoyable, and that's exactly the opposite of what deliberate practice demands….

Ericsson notes that for a novice, somewhere around an hour a day of intense concentration seems to be a limit, while for experts this number can expand to as many as four hours—but rarely more.

To remain valuable in our economy, therefore, you must master the art of quickly learning complicated things. This task requires deep work. If you don't cultivate this ability, you're likely to fall behind as technology advances. The

A side effect of memory training, in other words, is an improvement in your general ability to concentrate. This ability can then be fruitfully applied to any task demanding deep work.