Quotes About Learning

Science itself is learning how to better exploit negative results.

We all start from radical ignorance in a world that is endlessly strange, vast, complex, intricate, and surprising. Deliverance from ignorance lies in good concepts—inference fountains that geyser out insights that organize and increase the scope of our understanding.

You don't have to know everything. You simply need to know where to find it when necessary.

Our ignorance of the future has been wisely ordained of Heaven. For unless man were to be like God and know everything, it is better that he should know nothing. If he knows one fact only, instead of profiting by it he will assuredly land in the soup.

Aquele que já está no chão não precisa de cair; Aquele que desceu ao mais baixo não precisa de ter orgulho.

Cesa, hijo mío, de oír las enseñanzas que te hacen divagar de las razones de sabiduría'.

So Christian went on his way, saying: Here have I seen things rare and profitable; Things pleasant, dreadful; things to make me stable In what I have begun to take in hand: Then let me think on them, and understand Wherefore they showed me where; and let me be Thankful, O good Interpreter, to thee.

If you don't contradict yourself on a regular basis, then you're not thinking.

sometimes you win, sometimes you learn

For finally, "you can always count on Americans to do the right thing," as Churchill pointed out, "but only after they've tried everything else.

the great British economist John Maynard Keynes, written 70 years ago: "It is dangerous . . . to apply to the future inductive arguments based on past experience, unless one can distinguish the broad reasons why past experience was what it was.

Live to learn and you will really learn to live.

It's said that a wise person learns from his mistakes. A wiser one learns from others' mistakes. But the wisest person of all learns from others's successes.

Most people who decide to grow personally find their first mentors in the pages of books.

If you're not failing, you're probably not really moving forward.

God uses people who fail—'cause there aren't any other kind around.

Fail early, fail often, but always fail forward.

Good leaders ask great questions that inspire others to dream more, think more, learn more, do more, and become more.

You never really know something until you teach it to someone else.

A winner knows how much he still has to learn, even when he is considered an expert by others. A loser wants to be considered an expert by others before he has learned enough to know how little he knows.

One of the greatest problems people have with failure is that they are too quick to judge isolated situations in their lives and label them as failures. Instead, they need to keep the bigger picture in mind.

If you want to reach your potential and become the person you were created to be, you must do much more than just experience life and hope that you learn what you need along the way. You must go out of your way to seize growth opportunities as if your future depended on it.

The book you don't read can't help you; the seminar you won't attend can't change your life. The business gets better when you get better. Never wish it were easier, wish you were better.

People are training for success when they should be training for failure. Failure is far more common than success; poverty is more prevalent than wealth; and disappointment more normal than arrival. —J.WALLACE HAMILTON