Quotes About Learning

We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth.

If we succeed in giving the love of learning, the learning itself is sure to follow.

Our great mistake in education is, as it seems to me, the worship of book-learning -- the confusion of instruction and education. We strain the memory instead of cultivating the mind.

The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.

In expert tennis, 80% of the points are won, while in amateur tennis, 80% are lost. The same is true for wrestling, chess, and investing: Beginners should focus on avoiding mistakes, experts on making great moves." Erik Falkenstein

Conifer. It's a dynamically typed Lisp without parenthesis tuned for machine learning.

I've never understood how so many barely literate people read the Bible so much. It's hard. In the same way it surprises me that uneducated seamstresses all over the world can figure out how to put in sleeves and zippers.

If there is ever anything you want to know, you just ask me and we'll find the answer in a book." This was a wonderful thing to hear and I believed her.

they say a baby's true babtism occurs when hefirst falls out of bed

But much more often I have seen the marriage and the family grow closer, better. Everybody learns to deal, has to help, has to be honest and say it sucks. Everybody has to laugh, everybody has to feel grateful when whatever else the child can't do he can kiss the hand that brushes his hair.

Good teachers are door openers in to that wisdom you already have inside

You must know history. Even if you want to refuse, to reject things, you must be aware of what you are rejecting.

If children are not introduced to music at an early age, I believe something fundamental is actually being taken from them.

I was an elementary school teacher.

Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail.

All questions can be answered, if one is prepared to take the trouble to find out what they are.

In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.

You should put time into learning your craft. It seems like people want success so quickly, way before they're ready.

Yo he aprendido más de mi tierra yendo a los indios ranqueles, que en diez años de despestañarme, leyendo opúsculos, folletos, gacetillas, revistas y libros especiales.

Retire into yourself as much as possible. Associate with people who are likely to improve you. Welcome those whom you are capable of improving. The process is a mutual one. People learn as they teach.

The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.

Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely for science is but one.

It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing.

Liesure without books is death, and burial of a man alive.