Quotes About Learning

And we would always be shaped by the experience, in ways we could not guess at the time.

But it is not enough to be told a word as big as that. You have to live with it, carry it around with you. You have to pace around and around it, see it from different angles, at different times of day, in different light, until you understand, until it enters you. You have to hold it inside yourself in secret for years, like the hideous stone inside a peach. How

Everyone has something to teach you, Duddleman, if you can bear to stay quiet enough to listen.

It is because the Spirit of Christ, is not the one only thing that is the Desire of their Hearts; and therefore their Learning only Works in, and with the Spirit of this World, and becomes itself, no small Part of the Vanity of Vanities.

Surely part of the moral meaning of representative government is that the representatives from all parts of a vast nation coming together in a great mosaic not only represent the interests and visions of their respective localities but also then learn from each other, affect each other, reason together, diminish their respective provincialisms, and shape something nearer to the common good.

You can learn more about human nature by reading the Bible than by living in New York.

I divide all readers into two classes; those who read to remember and those who read to forget.

The latest edition of a work of science is the most valuable; of literature, the earliest.

It was silly to suppose that trials only hardened men, automatically making them wise. He knew many who were stupid, arrogant, and mean, in spite of having suffered.

El hombre que aprende de memoria grandes porciones de las Escrituras enriquece su propia vida y aumenta su potencial para bendecir a los demás, si

I took acres of fertile ignorance up to that place. And they started to pour preconceptions all over it. Like forty tons of cement. No thanks. I got out before it hardened. I did a year, passed

Were textbooks to disappear tomorrow, and with them the treasures that they contain, it would take centuries to rediscover the calculus, but only days to recover our debts, and with our debts, the numbers that express them.

I feel as though I am swimming in an ocean of knowledge with but a teaspoon to consume it.

Don't you love the Oxford Dictionary? When I first read it, I thought it was a really really long poem about everything.

Turing's report left these questions hanging, but he did suggest a forerunner of what would eventually become the Turing Test: if you played chess against a learning machine, would you know if it was a human being or a computer?

To pass the Turing Test the computer would have to do more than imitate. It would have to be a learning entity.

Natural Wonders Every Child Should Know by Edwin Tenney Brewster.

Soft skills require a lot of hard work.

knowing nothing can get you humiliated and knowing a little bit can get you killed, but knowing all of it will bring you power.

We are a long time in learning that all our strength and salvation is in God.

Reciprocal accountability, or criticism [is] the only known antidote to error.

The measure of (mental) health is flexibility (not comparison to some 'norm'), the freedom to learn from experience Ã¢â'¬Â¦ to be influenced by reasonable arguments Ã¢â'¬Â¦ and the appeal to the emotions Ã¢â'¬Â¦ and especially the freedom to cease when sated. The essence of illness is the freezing of behavior into unalterable and insatiable patterns. Lawrence Kubie

News is something worth knowing that you didn't know already. (by an "earnest young woman" in his journalism class)

Training focuses on simulations. Coaching lives in the real world with real situations.