Quotes About Learning

Anyone who maintains that we have nothing useful to learn from listening to speeches either lacks sense or has a secret agenda at stake. - Diodotus

under the tuition of the poets.

History is philosophy teaching from examples.

No matter how good you get you can always get better, and that's the exciting part

I flunked out that semester, but I got my money's worth learning about people that don't have hearts no bigger than bird shot.

You can be too rich and too thin, but you can never be too well read or too curious about the world.

Few activities are as delightful as learning new vocabulary.

Palchinsky principles': first, seek out new ideas and try new things; second, when trying something new, do it on a scale where failure is survivable; third, seek out feedback and learn from your mistakes as you go along. The

Here's the thing about failure in innovation: it's a price worth paying. We

Specifically, Kahan identified "scientific curiosity." That's different from scientific literacy. The two qualities are correlated, of course, but there are curious people who know rather little about science (yet), and highly trained people with little appetite to learn more.

the "curse of knowledge" is a constant obstacle to clear communication: once you know a subject fairly well, it is enormously difficult to put yourself in the position of someone who doesn't know it.

To the economist, there is a story to tell about the contrast between the chaos of the traffic and the smooth running of the bookshop. We can learn something from the bookstore that will help us avoid traffic jams.

The French satirist Molière once wrote, "A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one." Benjamin Franklin commented, "So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables us to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do.

That is why 'learn from your mistakes' is wise advice that is painfully hard to take.

did start paying attention to the unglamorous insights

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gamble in a wartime prison camp should serve as an example to the staff of the World Bank today. We'll discover what the disasters at Three Mile Island and Deepwater Horizon have to tell us about preventing another Lehman Brothers crisis. We'll learn from a watchmaker

If we want to make the world add up, we need to ask questions -- open-minded, genuine questions. And once we start asking them, we may find it is delightfully difficult to stop.

their mistakes. Most individuals suffer from the same problem. Accepting trial and error means accepting error. It means taking problems in our stride when a decision doesn't work out, whether through luck or misjudgement. And that is not something human brains seem to be able to do without a struggle. 9

For superforecasters, beliefs are hypotheses to be tested, not treasures to be guarded," wrote Philip Tetlock after the study had been completed. "It would be facile to reduce superforecasting to a bumper-sticker slogan, but if I had to, that would be it.

and error means accepting error. It means taking problems in our stride when a decision doesn't work out, whether through luck or misjudgement. And that is

Accepting trial and error means accepting error. It means taking problems in our stride when a decision doesn't work out, whether through luck or misjudgement. And that is not something human brains seem to be able to do without

Leaving the world nicer than you found it, making a commitment to a lifetime of learning, paying attention to what you learn from life's experience so that you are more valuable to others, and being committed to developing the potential of as many people as you can are general purposes that are good to install in the hearts of each one of your children.

All her life she had known that books were living things, not just a convergence of concept and ink, intellect and paper. They did not breathe or think, but they grew and gave a sense of potential so much larger than whatever was written on their pages.