Quotes About Learning

I enjoyed studying costume, learning about the corsetry and the historical context of fashion. I never had any real intention of being a costume designer.

My family's ignorance of the world they lived in was always a source of worry to me, and I never lost an opportunity of imparting information.

IgnoranÈ›a familiei mele în ceea ce priveÈ™te lumea în care tr?iesc a constituit întotdeauna un motiv de îngrijorare pentru mine È™i n-am l?sat niciodat? s?-mi scape vreo ocazie de a le împ?rt??i cunoÈ™tinÈ›e.

Secondo me, bisogna trovargli un nuovo istitutore», disse Larry. «Ti allontani da casa cinque minuti, e quando torni, lo trovi che sta sbudellando Moby Dick nel portico.»

I said I *liked* being half-educated; you were so much more *surprised* at everything when you were ignorant.

I believe that all children should be surrounded by books and animals.

Theodore had an apparently inexhaustible fund of knowledge about everything, but he imparted this knowledge with a sort of meticulous diffidence that made you feel he was not so much teaching you something new, as reminding you of something which you were already aware of, but which had, for some reason or other, slipped your mind.

In contrast to the traditional idea of creative discovery as great leaps into the unknown by the 'man of genius' - the exploration of the adjacent possible by diverse perspectives can explain autocatalytic innovation within the context of cultural learning and conformity. The growth of diversity is self-accelerating because the size of the possible exponentially increases with the dimensions of the attributes being tinkered with.

Too often critics seem more intent on seeking new ways to alter Congress than to truly learn how it functions. They might well profit from the advice of Thomas Huxley, who said a century ago: Sit down before facts as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notionor you shall learn nothing.

What you don't know may not hurt you, but what you don't remember always does.

People don't become leaders because they never fail. They become leaders because of the way they respond to failure.

It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so. - Will Rogers The

Books are no substitute for experience working with people, so now that you've read this book on leadership, go out and interact with people before you read any more.

Since nobody's perfect, we need resistance to test our ideas.

Very well. I shall try to think like an idiot.

The greatest failure is a person who never admits that he can be a failure.

I had a lot of experience with people smarter than I am.

Both my mum and dad were great readers, and we would go every Saturday morning to the library, and my sister and I had a library card when we could pass off something as a signature, and all of us would come with an armful of books.

There's just so many great stories in the past that you can know a little bit about, but you can't know it all, and that's where imagination can work.

To know a man's library is, in some measure, to know a man's mind.

When she had discovered that I hungered to learn, she commenced to shovel knowledge my way as vigorously as she spaded the cowpats into her beloved flower beds.

The greatest wisdom often consists in ignorance.

Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.

Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.