Quotes About Learning

Dan Philosophy is what you do when you don't yet know what the right questions are to ask.

The unwillingness to give a hearing to contradictory viewpoints, or to imagine that one might learn anything from an ideological or cultural opponent, represents a departure from the best side of American popular and elite intellectual traditions.

Public ignorance and anti-intellectualism are not identical, of course, but they are certainly kissing cousins. Both foster the rise of candidates who regard a broad knowledge of history, science, and culture, and a decent command of their native language as political liabilities rather than assets—and who frequently try to downplay these qualities, even if they possess them, in order to pander to a public that considers conspicuous displays of learning a form of snobbery.

him lazy and stupid, they lashed his knuckles

you ever thought that you are not getting enough out of your digital camera, you are probably right. Many owners of new digital cameras are unaware of what their cameras are capable of doing and it's not really their fault. The fact is that all of these new-fangled cameras hit the market with a glut of expressions being used that baffled the consumer who was hungry to try out new technology. I did three years at photographic college in the early seventies and the difference between the

Sherman: You are the worst. Rick: You taught me everything I know.

Sometimes it takes a long, long time before we can glean enrichment from the deprivation and suffering which has baffled and overwhelmed us. —Mildred Tengbom

I can always be tempted by a library.

4. Attachment offers a secure base. Secure attachment also provides a secure base from which individuals can explore their universe and most adaptively respond to their environment. The presence of such a base encourages exploration and a cognitive openness to new information. It promotes the confidence necessary to risk, learn, and continually update models of self and the world.

It's okay to screw up. It's what we do afterward that defines us.

from the worst of experiences you learn the best of stuff.

and those of us who've been burned keep sticking our fingers in the fire, over and over again." Over and over and over. Jo

Having words opened up a world of possibilities for Martha.

If I had learned anything from this past year, it is that despair is love's fiercest enemy.

children, as they grow, learn about the world and their place in it by testing what they know and experimenting with what they don't.

That's what we did, didn't we, Audrey? We learned to be brave when it was easier to be afraid.

What can other countries learn from the German experience? "To look at your own country as if it were a foreign one. It's crucial to have a broken relationship to your past, to be ready to see your own history with shame and horror.

Knowledge is a beautiful thing, but there are a few things I wish I didn't know.

It's not really about collecting the thing itself," Laroche went on. "It's about getting immersed in something, and learning about it, and having it become part of your life. It's a kind of direction." He stopped on the word "direction" and chortled. "If anybody had a plant I didn't have, I made sure to get it. It was like a heroin addiction. If I ever had money I would spend it on plants.

In many towns, the library is the only place you can browse through physical books.

They created, for that short time, a system to protect and pass along shared knowledge, to save what we know for each other, which is what libraries do every day.

The library is a gathering pool of narratives and of the people who come to find them.

You read and read and read and read," she said, "and then what?

There are a lot of surprising things in the library; a lot of things you don't think of when you try to imagine all of what a library might contain.