Quotes About Learning

Einstein later said, "it made me clearly realize how much superior an education based on free action and personal responsibility is to one relying on outward authority."57

la intuición no es más que el resultado de una experiencia intelectual anterior.»

he "dropped my abrupt contradiction" style of argument and "put on the humbler enquirer" of the Socratic method.

no acababa de entender que el conocimiento progresa por acumulación y en colaboración.

more emphasis was placed on independent thought than on punditry, and young people saw the teacher not as a figure of authority, but, alongside the student, a man of distinct personality.

epistemological

people, including types that I didn't like much at all but felt I had something to learn or to gain from.

All writing is that structure of revelation. There's something you want to find out. If you know everything up front in the beginning, you really don't need to read further if there's nothing else to find out.

Readin' good books is like meetin' a girl you wanna get to know bettah

What can you learn from the differences between the previous screenings and this one? Given these two headings, where is the North Pole? Test screenings are just a way to find out where you are.

Few people know how much you have to know in order to know how little you know.

One reason alone is enough for today, and that reason lies in the national misconception of what constitutes education. All of your lives you have been trained to believe that your mental equipment consisted of learning how to memorize a multitude of facts. This is what I call parroting a man. To my mind, this inadequate concept of education is the crime of the age.

Whenever new knowledge of a transforming nature permeates the race, the standard of world culture rises.

I HAVE already hinted that the dainty, squeamish, and fastidious taste acquired by a surfeit of idle reading, had not only rendered our hero unfit for serious and sober study, but had even disgusted him in some degree with that in which he had hitherto indulged. He

Nor did I forget what is the natural pleasure of every man who has been a reader;… filling the shelves of a tolerably large library.

Ambition, policy, bravery, all far beyond their sphere, here learned the fate of mortals.

Get something to improve yourself at least 1% each day

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

The most important investment you can make is in yourself.

Diversification is protection against ignorance. It makes little sense if you know what you are doing.

The more you learn, the more you earn.

In fact, when Warren Buffett was once asked about the key to success, he pointed to a stack of nearby books and said, "Read 500 pages like this every day. That's how knowledge works. It builds up, like compound interest. All of you can do it, but I guarantee not many of you will do it.

Reading could be the BEST addiction one could have. The only proven side effect is imagination & an edge in knowledge.

If you wait till you know everything it's too late