Quotes About Learning

The more you learn, the more acutely aware you become of your ignorance

Fragmentation, or making learning an "add-on" to people's regular work, has probably limited more organizational learning initiatives than any other factor.

learning organization"—an organization that is continually expanding its capacity to create its future.

Around about now, young John Owen comes out of the shack lugging my old musket from the War. At six years of age, our youngest boy already knew his business. Not a word, just brings the shooting iron somewhat closer so's he don't waste powder, then hoists her up, set to haul back on the trigger. I believe his plan was to shoot this feller, get the story later.

Moment by moment, breath by breath...that is my greatest teaching.

In this very breath that we now take Lies the secret that all great teachers try to tell us.

Peter Robinson

Knowledge is the capacity for effective action.

Real learning gets to the heart of what it means to be human. Through learning , we become able to do things we never could and to extend our capacity to be part of the generative process of life.

If you look at four-year-olds, they are constantly asking questions and wondering how things work," Gregersen observed generally. "But by the time they are six and a half years old they stop asking questions because they quickly learn that teachers value the right answers more than provocative questions.

the emphasis on linear systems, top-down control, relentless efficiency and eradicating failure left little room for creative discovery and trial and error.

entrepreneurs do not try to avoid errors or surprises. They seek to learn from them, just as chefs often arrive at new recipes through improvisation.

You're a scholar, and this here is your school. Your lessons are hard—hard—but you gotta learn 'em. Most people don't learn what you bein' taught until they a lot older. Nothing is safe, that's what you been learnin'.

Amount of time an American child spends watching television, annually: 1,500 hours. Amount of time an American child spends in school, annually: 900 hours.

children]can thus learn the art of loving and know truly that when they think a thought they release a tremendous power or force in space.

fundamental nature of success: it's hidden among failures.

fail and fail often—but keep the cost of each failure low, so that you can keep going until you succeed.

To learn how to read any map is to be indoctrinated into that mapmaker's culture.

Un zoológico es una mejor ventana desde la cual observar el mundo humano que un monasterio

He adored talking about the rich…. But his real wealth was literary. He had read many thousands of books. He said that history was a nightmare during which he was trying to get a good night's rest. Insomnia made him more learned.

Books have led some to learning and others to madness.

I ate in the morning what I would digest in the evening; I swallowed as a boy what I would ruminate upon as an older man. I have thoroughly absorbed these writings, implanting them not only in my memory but in my marrow. (Quoted by Josh Foer in Moonwalking With Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything)

Groucho Marx said, "I find television very educational. Every time someone turns on a set I go into the other room and read a book.

As a young child in Rome, he wrote out the entire score of a nine-voice religious work after hearing it twice.