Quotes About Learning

Epicurus also taught that wisdom was the greatest virtue, for through it we could learn which pleasures to seek and which to avoid. Moreover, he professed that no one could be completely happy unless they lived a virtuous life, not because virtue was good in itself, but because it led to pleasurable consequences and the absence of pain and fear.

And only when we are proven wrong so clearly that we can no longer deny it to ourselves will we adjust our mental models of the world—producing a clearer picture of reality. Forecast

what makes these superforecasters so good. It's not really who they are. It is what they do. Foresight isn't a mysterious gift bestowed at birth. It is the product of particular ways of thinking, of gathering information, of updating beliefs. These habits of thought can be learned and cultivated

We have all been too quick to make up our minds and too slow to change them.

there is no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction….Learn from every mistake because every experience, encounter, and particularly your mistakes are there to teach you and force you into being who you are." Everything happens for a reason. Everything has a purpose.

Doubt is not a fearful thing," Feynman observed, "but a thing of very great value.

it turns out that forecasting is not a "you have it or you don't" talent. It is a skill that can be cultivated.

Quit pretending you know things you don't and start running experiments.

Epistemic uncertainty is something you don't know but is, at least in theory, knowable.

So many different formulas can work that there's no real formula. What's important is to learn from whomever or whatever you can, at your own rate, in your own way. How or when you learn doesn't matter, so long as the learning occurs.

I acquired an admiration for Japanese culture, art, and architecture, and learned of the existence of the game of GO, which I still play.

Faith's the agreement to abandon detachment, John! To supplant a packaged security for open integrity. To agree not to learn anymore. It is the acceptance of a channel, by a man who was previously able to move on the whole terrain

The teacher-student relationship evaporated, replaced by a rich and lively exchange of equals.

He's surprised: But how do you know it? I say: It's on the way to Santiago de Compostela. He asks if I've never been there. I tell him no, never, but I read about it in a book and remembered it. He makes fun of me, saying: I was sure you were a boy like that, one who knows things just because you read it in a book. He then becomes despondent and adds: But what's worse is that if someone asked both of us, I'm pretty sure you would be able to talk about it way better than I could.

Ik ben vijftien. Ik heb al honderden boeken gelezen. Ik voel me zwaar van al die boeken, een heerlijke zwaarte. Ik zal mijn leven lang blijven lezen. Ik zal er mijn beroep van maken. Ik word leraar. Een leraar van een bijzondere soort die nooit lesgeeft, die geen leerlingen heeft, maar boeken schrijft over wat hij gelezen heeft, met als doel anderen het verlangen en de behoefte te geven om hem na te volgen.

Don't forget, Brodeck: it's ignorance that always triumphs, not knowledge.

I am both a realist and a student of History. Mankind has never learned from History.

I had been here five years already, training very hard, learning about the systems, the shuttle, the station systems. But, everything really became real when I started to work with them.

I limiti, le trappole, le impossibilità mi sono necessari, vado loro incontro ogni giorno. Ritengo che la frusta sia necessaria, a condizione che a maneggiarla sia l'allievo, non il maestro.

Upon the one thing every writer absolutely must have, and that is intellectual curiosity.

We all know the symbols for school: an apple, a red one-room schoolhouse, a bell. But those symbols never really worked for me.... If I had to pick one symbol that represents teaching, it wouldn't be any of these. It would be the bulletin board.

Reading is the king of subjects. Math and science, writing and social studies -- they all depend on it. It's the most important thing children learn in school.

Every child knows ho to do a drumroll. It's instinctive, just like when children pick staples out of the rug and bring them to the teacher.