Quotes About Learning

New York Times has noted, "Data is merely the raw material of knowledge.

Language is what we use to tell stories, transmit knowledge, and build social bonds. It comforts, tickles, excites, and destroys. Every society has language, and somehow we all learn a language in the first few years of our lives, a process that has been repeated for as long as humans have been around. Unlike swimming, using Microsoft Windows, or making the perfect lemon souffle — which some of us never manage to do — learning a language is a task we can all take for granted.

Now we have come full circle to the subtitle of this book: children learn by unlearning other languages. Viewed in the Darwinian light, all humanly possible grammars compete to match the language spoken in the child's environment. And fitness, because we have competition, can be measured by the compatibility of a grammar with what a child hears in a particular linguistic environment. This theory of language takes both nature and nurture into account: nature proposes, and nurture disposes.

As with any motor skills movement, the act of hitting a baseball needs to be consciously learned, then subconsciously performed. This assures spontaneous reaction.

For hym was levere have at his beddes heed Twenty bookes, clad in blak or reed, Of Aristotle and his philosophie, Than robes riche, or fithele, or gay sautrie.

When he gave me the book, Bill said Be skeptical about this one. It's a great book. But try to be a filter, not a sponge.

The first duty of a revolutionary is to be educated.

A country that does not know how to read and write is easy to deceive.

Your lack of geographical knowledge is truly astounding.

Stupid people go to college butsmart people own them....

When mother-cow is chewing grass its young ones watch its mouth

Hanya kisahlah... yang bisa menghindarkan keturunan kita dari membuat kesalahan besar seperti pengemis-pengemis buta yang menabrak duri-duri pagar kaktus. (Anthills of The Savannah)

A man who asks questions does not lose his way; that is what our fathers taught us.

What a man does not know is greater than he.

The young he-goat said that but his sojourn in his mother's clan he would not have learnt to stick up his upper lip.

Wisdom that isn't distilled in our own crucible can't help us.

To believe in an ideal, is to be willing to betray it. It is something no Sith or Jedi has ever truly learned. -- Kreia, KOTOR 2

Love your experiments (as you would an ugly child)," Mau's maxim went. "Exploit the liberty in casting your work as beautiful experiments, iterations, attempts, trials, and errors. Take the long view and allow yourself the fun of failure every day.

Even the most successful people in this world make mistakes. Often they're just better at correcting them and moving on.

A library doesn't need windows, Andrew. We have books, which are windows into worlds we never even dreamed possible.

We all make mistakes. That's why my pencil has an eraser.

Books need to have their spines cracked, their covers opened, and their pages ruffled for them to come alive.

An open book is an open mind -Charles Chiltington

Knowledge not shared remains unknown