Quotes About Learning

that is often associated with classroom knowledge that may get in the way of understanding what's going on in real life.

Most mistakes get worse when you try to correct them.

that we depend on them for what information we need to obtain.

Having spent a couple of decades in this mind-set, I am convinced (but cannot prove) that training and education can help us avoid its pitfalls.

We do not spontaneously learn that we don't learn that we don't learn. The problem lies in the structure of our minds: we don't learn rules, just facts, and only facts. Metarules (such as the rule that we have a tendency to not learn rules) we don't seem to be good at getting. We scorn the abstract; we scorn it with passion

Cicero, Seneca, Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Lucian, or the poets: Juvenal, Horace, or the later French so-called "moralists" (La Rochefoucauld, Vauvenargues, La Bruyère, Chamfort). Bossuet is a class on his own. One can use Montaigne and Erasmus as a portal to the ancients: Montaigne was the popularizer of his day; Erasmus was the thorough compiler.

If you want to become antifragile, put yourself in the situation "loves mistakes"—to the right of "hates mistakes"—by making these numerous and small in harm. We will call this process and approach the "barbell" strategy.

Learn to read history, get all the knowledge you can, do not frown on the anecdote, but do not draw any causal links, do not try to reverse engineer too much—but if you do, do not make big scientific claims.

We do not spontaneously learn that we don't learn that we don't learn.

without penalty to themselves from having been wrong in the first paper

It was taken for granted that people learned to be tolerant there;

Journalists can teach us how to not learn.

True, our knowledge does grow, but it is threatened by greater increases in confidence, which make our increase in knowledge at the same time an increase in confusion, ignorance, and conceit.

is the exact contrary of knowledge; one should learn to avoid using terms made for knowledge to describe its opposite.

The most privileged were sent to school in France, as both my grandfathers were

the project managers incur only small errors and can adapt to them.

Double a man's erudition; you will halve his citations.

we know a lot more what is wrong than what is right

It illustrates a severe limitation to our learning from observations or experience and the fragility of our knowledge.

soccer moms try to eliminate the trial and error, the antifragility, from children's lives

they are now totally untrained to handle ambiguity.

We certainly know a lot, but we have a built-in tendency to think that we know a little bit more than we actually do

our knowledge does grow, but it is threatened by greater increases in confidence, which make our increase in knowledge at the same time an increase in confusion, ignorance, and conceit.

To put it again in other words: it is rather a good thing to lose arguments.