Quotes About Learning

Je mehr man in einer Sprache durch Vernunft unterscheiden lernt, desto schwerer wird einem das Sprechen derselben. Im Fertig-Sprechen ist viel Instinktmäßiges, durch Vernunft läßt es sich nicht erreichen.

We learn from history that we do not learn from history.

My entire learning process is slow, because I have no visual memory.

Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.

What experience and history teach is this—that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.

The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything.

The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history.

What experience and history teach is this - that nations and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it.

What experience and history teaches us is that people and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.

Education is the art of making man ethical

The owl of Minerva begins its flight only with the coming of the dusk.

The more you use your brain, the more brain you will have to use.

A little learning is a dangerous thing and a good deal of it is suffocating.

Where ignorance is not bliss, get wise!

As the twig is bent the tree is inclined.

Whom are you?" said he, for he had been to night school.

We have been better taught than the world. We cannot make the excuses of the world if we fail.

my philosophy of raising kids is kind of extreme. I think you should keep a baby around for a few days after it's born—until the novelty wears off—and then you put it in a big cardboard box with all the best books of Eastern and Western civilization. Then you bury the box and dig it up again when the kid's eighteen.

Humility is the only true wisdom by which we prepare our minds for all the possible changes of life.

I would rather have a good education and no money, than to have a fortune and be ignorant.

Instead of learning from one mind at a time, the search engine learns from the collective human mind, all at once. Every time an individual searches for something, and finds an answer, this leaves a faint, lingering trace as to where (and what) some fragment of meaning is. The fragments accumulate and, at a certain point, as Turing put it in 1948, "the machine would have 'grown up.

As Billy Graham has often said regarding early mornings, "No Bread, no bread." In my life, it is my goal to have a daily quiet time, exercise physically every day (even when traveling) and to read something to refresh my mind and help me to grow in knowledge.

You might define vision as foresight with insight based on hindsight.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing.