Quotes About Learning

Rimane il fatto che, in ogni modo, capire bene la gente non è vivere. Vivere è capirla male, capirla male e male e poi male e, dopo un attento riesame, ancora male. Ecco come sappiamo di essere vivi: sbagliando. Forse la cosa migliore sarebbe dimenticare di aver ragione o torto sulla gente e godersi semplicemente la gita. Ma se ci riuscite... Beh, siete fortunati.

If anybody asks, 'Can you do this job? Can you handle it?' you tell 'em 'Absolutely.' By the time they find out that you can't, you'll have already learned, and the job'll be yours. And who knows, it might just turn out to be the opportunity of a lifetime.

The pompous son of a bitch knows everythingit's too bad he doesn't know anything else.

É muito difícil ler os clássicos; logo a culpa é dos clássicos. Hoje o estudante faz valer a sua incapacidade como um privilégio. Eu não consigo aprender isto, portanto alguma coisa está errada nisto. E há especialmente alguma coisa errada com o mau professor que quer ensinar tal matéria. Deixou de haver critérios - para só haver opiniões.

All that we don't know is astonishing. Even more astonishing is what passes for knowing. As

you will make mistakes on a scale you can't even dream of now—because there is no other way to reach the end.

The fact remains that getting people right is not what living is all about anyway. It's getting them wrong and wrong and wrong and then, on careful reconsideration, getting them wrong again. That's how we know we're alive: we're wrong.

Rimane il fatto che, in ogni modo, capire la gente non è vivere. Vivere è capirla male, capirla male e male e poi male e, dopo un attento riesame, ancora male. Ecco come sappiamo di essere vivi: sbagliando. Forse la cosa migliore sarebbe dimenticare di aver ragione o torto sulla gente e godersi semplicemente la gita. Ma se ci riuscite... Beh, siete fortunati.

Tanta istruzione, e non serve a nulla. Nulla può isolare dal più infimo livello del pensiero.

Learning how to think" really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think.

Lo de «aprender a pensar» en realidad quiere decir ejercer cierto control sobre cómo y qué piensa uno.

Now – those who got it right. On the count of three, I'd like you to sit down if you'd seen the question before. 1, 2, 3!"  Everyone who was standing sits down. This gets a huge laugh. The students who got the answer wrong suddenly feel much better about their mistake: in a Harvard class, not a single person got it right unless they had seen it before.

Did you take lessons in stupidity, or does it come naturally?

I don't know how other people feel about college, but to me, it's overrated. College gives you living experience in an environment where you have to be responsible for yourself—but very little more than that. If you learn anything, you've done it yourself.

The minute you start thinking you know how things work, you're dead.

The minute you begin to cruise, to rely on skills learned last year, that's the moment you begin your decline.

Struggle a little bit! At first, it'll be difficult—or awkward—struggling on purpose. But every technique created by Sandler Training requires practice—reinforcement training—to accomplish it.

No one but a fool is always right.

We must know. We will know.

Wir müssen wissen, wir werden wissen.

Wir müssen wissen, wir werden wissen. Dobbiamo sapere, sapremo.

How can I survive without a book to read?

intel1ectual but

A university is not a political party, and an education is not an indoctrination.