Quotes About Learning

Everyone's life is a mess. Everyone's. We all make mistakes . . . and not just little slip-ups. Major mistakes that hurt us and other people.

What kind of programmer is so divorced from reality that she thinks she'll get complex software right the first time?

Aphorism, n.: A concise, clever statement you don't think of until too late.

Before you're ready to tell that story well, you might have to study and learn the equivalent of an entire specialized college education on the society in which your story takes place, because all sorts of things were happening that you need to understand before you can even begin to tell a story in that milieu.

A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.

This is not true. Everyone is an entrepreneur. The only skills you need to be an entrepreneur are the ability to fail, to have ideas, to sell those ideas, to execute on them, and to be persistent so even as you fail you learn and move onto the next adventure.

If we truly want to learn, we never learn when we are talking. We only learn when we are listening.

I have never met a mentally strong person who wasn't a voracious reader.

You can't tell nobody what they don't know—not even that they don't know

Grow antennae, not horns.

La introducción en un campo de conocimiento es más un adoctrinamiento que un estímulo del pensamiento crítico-científico. El tiempo de aprendizaje —en la ciencia tanto como en la industria, el arte o la religión— se caracteriza por una «sugestión de ideas puramente autoritaria».

1. Per educare occorre proporre adeguatamente il passato.

2. Seconda urgenza: il passato può essere proposto ai giovani solo se è presentato dentro un vissuto presente

3. La vera educazione deve essere un'educazione alla critica.

Non sono qui perché voi riteniate come vostre le idee che vi do io, ma per insegnarvi un metodo vero per giudicare le cose che io vi dirò.

These children are so stupid; they think they are the first to discover the world.

To be macho, you must already know everything, know it so well that you're already bored by the knowledge.

He hadn't enjoyed school all that much, but they could have warned him that language would prove overtaxing.

The worthiest among human beings, said Diogenes according to Stobaeus (3.86.19), are those who despise learning and prefer a state of ignorance-ignorance understood not in the sense of not knowing anything, but in the sense of dispensing with unnecessary learning and acquiring only the knowledge that is sufficient for a good and simple life. This is what Diogenes identified as the only meaning and purpose of philosophy.

People who grow, question what they know.

Concluí que os livros nos enlevam, mas nunca o bastante, e que ao mesmo tempo que nos aproximam de uma revelação final podem nos distrair e atrasar nosso progresso.

Carezco de un repertorio de conocimientos sólidos sobre algo concreto, no domino un arte o una técnica, y aunque a veces puede parecer que sé mucho o que al menos hablo como experto, en el fondo todo son vaguedades, palabrería, filfa y apariencia, con algunos relumbrones que crean la ilusión de un vasto saber apenas entrevisto.

Lo que veo es que cada vez hablás peor, repetiste mil veces las mismas palabras.

Entonces el derecho a la educación no sirve, Pati