Quotes About Learning

Sadly, schools deal in the sale and exchange of knowledge, not wisdom." ~ "The Hole

In a complicated, fast-changing world the intelligent path is to let go of being a Knower and embrace being a Learner.

To flourish in this turbulent and tricky world, a strong, agile, curious mind is an essential.

It is the kind of learning you are practising that is important, not the subject-matter you are practising on.

Something of the previous state, however, survives every change. This is called in the language of cybernetics (which took it form the language of machines) feedback, the advantages of learning from experience and of having developed reflexes.

How can I shake and dispel the awful reputation of being an "erudite" writer? I'm about as erudite as a traffic cop. I like to know things; what's so two-headed peculiar about that?

Anyone who has tried to learn a foreign language knows only too dearly that languages can be full of pointless irregularities that increase complexity considerably without contributing much to the ability to express ideas. English, for instance, would have losed none of its expressive power if some of its verbs leaved their irregular past tense behind and becomed regular.

the brain of a child learning a language can cope with a mind-boggling amount of linguistic complexity.

Every relationship that we have in our lives - our contact with each person, place, and event - serves a very special, if yet to be realized purpose: They are mirrors that can serve to show us things about ourselves that can be realized in no other way.

With books you learn things, random things, whatever the author might be talking to you about, and you sort of soak them up like a sponge over the years. They are stored away in some dim recess of the unconscious mind until one day some equally random stimulus sparks a connection, and you find that you've combined different items of memory and perception into a completely new insight.

Men have need of history because, without it, the past threatens to overwhelm them.

But when did the young people become clever? Isn't that supposed to take time?" Guidanio doesn't smile. "Wisdom does," he says. "People can be clever at any age.

The world was full of things one needed to know to survive; he didn't have the time to fill his brain with the useless chaff of a patently silly culture.

Ambitious failure, magnificent failure, is a very good thing.

Everyone is better than you at something. If you have a tough time accepting others, it's probably because you think you're superior to them. However, you're not superior to every person in every way.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. MARK TWAIN

Without the freedom to make 'mistakes', people cannot learn to take control of their lives successfully.

We think olden times were simple because we know how grandpa's problems were solved, and any problem is simple when you can look up the answer in the back of the book.

A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers.

I've had a very interesting career. I get to do amazing things and work with amazing people and travel and learn languages - things most people don't get the opportunity to do.

You save an old man and you save a unit; but save a boy, and you save a multiplication table.

We are learning to live with death, with the dead, we are learning with the life of our death in us, to live with cats, with mother, with envelopes, with secrets, to live each instant, we are learning to live, we are learning but we don't know. Envelopes of instants: are they life, are they death? The answer depends on my force of relife. Today I have the Force. Everything is living. Tomorrow we'll see. Today I have the Force of ascent.

Everything has to be at once for six-month-old puppies, six-year-old children, and reformers of any age.

People have to learn to live with newly-discovered facts; if they don't, they die of them.