Quotes About Learning

My green thumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to see things from the plant's point of view.

Maybe it's a tired tale, but without an education, you're not going to go anywhere.

In more than 20 years I've spent studying the issue, I have yet to hear a convincing argument that college football has anything do with what is presumably the primary purpose of higher education: academics.

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

History is a race between education and catastrophe.

Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.

Fools make researches and wise men exploit them.

Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.

Every person that you meet knows something you don't; learn from them.

I've learned that when a man with money meets a man with experience, the man with experience ends up with the money and the man with the money ends up with experience.

Remember that the more you know, the less you fear.

Every person that you meet knows something you don't; learn from them.

You can't hire someone to practice for you.

Intuition is not something that is given. I've trained my intuition to accept as obvious shapes which were initially rejected as absurd, and I find everyone else can do the same.

Children and scientists share an outlook on life. If I do this, what will happen? is both the motto of the child at play and the defining refrain of the physical scientist. Every child is observer, analyst, and taxonomist, building a mental life through a sequence of intellectual revolutions, constructing theories and promptly shedding them when they no longer fit. The unfamiliar and the strange—these are the domain of all children and scientists.

information is not knowledge, and knowledge is not wisdom.

Small nonlinearities were easy to disregard. People who conduct experiments learn quickly that they live in an imperfect world.

The library remains a sacred place for secular folk [What Libraries Can (Still) Do, The New York Review Daily, October 26, 2015].

I freely admit that I have many times adopted Jim Oakley's precept of a "bloody good gallop," often with spectacular results. To this day I frequently learn things from farmers, but that was one time when I learned from a postman.

Gently I pointed out that it should be "sheep," and though he was so tired that he could hardly keep his eyes open, he launched into an interrogation as to why the singular should be the same as the plural and wanted to know all the other English words which had this peculiarity.

This old man had once told me that he left school when he was twelve, whereas I had spent most of the twenty-four years of my life in study. Yet when I looked back on the last hour or so I could come to only one conclusion. I'd had more of books, but he had more of learning.

First job I had to do was pass the stomach tube on a horse. Got it into the trachea instead of the oesophagus. Couple of quick pumps and down went the horse with a hell of a crash—dead as a hammer. That's when I started these grey hairs.

?i c?r?ile pot fi mentori, ba chiar pot fi sursa unui moment de ini?iere.

Smart bombs do not compensate for dumb kids.