Quotes About Learning

There is a brilliant child locked inside every student.

If you can't make a mistake, you can't make anything.

There have been studies that clearly state that children who are exposed to arts education at a young age will in fact do markedly better in their SAT tests.

I started studying music at the age of five and a half. My older sister was taking piano lessons. When her teacher left our apartment, I would get up on the piano bench and start picking out the notes that were part of my sister's lessons.

You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way.

There was a failure to recognize the deep problems in AI for instance, those captured in Blocks World. The people building physical robots learned nothing.

I think Lenat is headed in the right direction, but someone needs to include a knowledge base about learning.

We wanted to solve robot problems and needed some vision, action, reasoning, planning, and so forth. We even used some structural learning, such as was being explored by Patrick Winston.

Most organizations should be pro-active, but philanthropists concerned with poverty should deliberately be reactive, learning from the efforts of ordinary folks who tired of looking the other way as their communities fell apart.

For among them are those who creep into households and capture weak women, burdened with sins and led astray by various passions, always learning and never able to arrive at a knowledge of the truth." 2 Timothy 3:6–7

Life is more about the journey than the destination

That's what I love about reading: one tiny thing will interest you in a book, and that tiny thing will lead you to another book, and another bit there will lead you onto a third book. It's geometrically progressive - all with no end in sight, and for no other reason than sheer enjoyment.

Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of mystery.

educated in the 'liberal arts' (literally 'the intellectual pursuits suited to the free')

I no longer think, as I once naively did, that we have much to learn directly from the Romans – or, for that matter, from the ancient Greeks, or from any other ancient civilisation.

received a classical education

You have to understand accounting and you have to understand the nuances of accounting. It's the language of business and it's an imperfect language, but unless you are willing to put in the effort to learn accounting - how to read and interpret financial statements - you really shouldn't select stocks yourself. - Warren Buffett

Mary Buffett

First one is astonished at the things one learns with comparative ease. Then one is appalled by the things one doesn't know.

If life had taught her anything, it was to listen to her instincts.

Kids absorbed more than most parents realized.

No one is born a parent. We all learn along the way.

But God doesn't make bad things happen or necessarily stop them from happening. What He does do is give us strength to understand and persevere, learn from and through the tragedy.