Quotes About Learning

Too many people spend too much time trying to perfect something before they actually do it. Instead of waiting for perfection, run with what you go, and fix it along the way…

it's wrong to be right; it's right to be wrong.

Do not seek praise. Seek criticism.

In the school they teach you what the world means, and once you have learned, you will always know, Amar's father had told him. But suppose the world changes? Amar had thought. Then what would you know?

My dear man, wisdom is a primitive concept," he had told him. "What we want now is knowledge.

As New Testament scholar Ernst Käsemann once said, "In scholarship as in life, no one can possess the truth except by constantly learning it afresh; and no one can learn it afresh without listening to the people who are his companions on the search for that truth. Community does not necessarily mean agreement."13

Rodney Stark puts it this way: "To expect to learn anything about important theological problems from Richard Dawkins or Daniel Dennett is like expecting to learn about medieval history from someone who had only read Robin Hood.

philosophy is "the love of wisdom.

Roman poet Ovid wrote: "Be patient and tough; some day this pain will be useful to you.

Stories were my passion, whether they were from books, comics or cartoons. I learned them all by heart and was as familiar with the characters as if they were members of my own family.

Childhood is built on bad decision-making.

Peter thought that he had noticed the shine of tears in her eyes, though of course it couldn't be so, since he had never heard of cats shedding tears. It was only later he was to learn that they could both laugh and cry.

learn to program by looking at good programs — not just at what they do, but at the source code.

One of the less publicized benefits of the open source movement is that it has made it easier to learn to program.

Reading and experience train your model of the world. And even if you forget the experience or what you read, its effect on your model of the world persists. Your mind is like a compiled program you've lost the source of. It works, but you don't know why.

The stated purpose of schools is to educate the kids. But there is no external pressure to do this well.

In other words, general set theory is pretty trivial stuff really, but, if you want to be a mathematician, you need some and here it is; read it, absorb it, and forget it.

The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education.

Teachers' using grades and the fear of failure mould the brains of the young until they have lost every ounce of imagination they might once have possessed.

Nobody knows something about everything.

the single difference between success and failure, between gain and loss, has boiled down to two words: applied knowledge.

Culture can be loosely defined as the body of non-genetic information which people pass from generation to generation.

A good stock of examples, as large as possible, is indispensable for a thorough understanding of any concept, and when I want to learn something new, I make it my first job to build one.

Closing a student's mind should be a criminal offense. If you let your ego get in the way of your teaching, you may become flustered or angry and lose sight of your goal to enlighten or give back.