Quotes About Learning

Use your knowledge to ask questions, not to tell people what you know.

Science was something that really caught my attention. It was something I really could sink my teeth into.

From the moment the doors of a hospital open for the first time and the first patient is treated, the facility acquires a pulse and begins to develop a personality as unique as any individual's. It fumbles and grows, learning from its mistakes. It stretches and explores, reaching out more and more to the world around it. Its organs decay and need repair or replacement. Its moods - the collective moods of its patients and employees - grow more distinctive.

It was my sister's fault. She brought...books home before I was old enough to check them out of the library myself.

It may take several times, but if you are consistent, they will learn to consistently obey, even in your absence.

No amount of discipline can make up for a lack of training.

"How long does it take to learn poker, Dad?" "All your life, son."

My mom put me and my sisters in the water to feel comfortable, to have water safety.

In the foyer of their building they displayed a large globe, one of the few in Philadelphia. On his way home from school each day, Hugh stopped in the office, spinning the globe on its axis, his fingers exploring the oceans and mountains of the world.

Getting to know patients is what I do. I learn about their deepest fears and secrets. A professional relationship becomes a personal one. It can be no other way. (190)

Smart means you know lots of shit. Clever means you can pretend you know it.

is so fundamental to our existence; it is wired into our DNA. That's why babies learn to fake cry before they're a year old and to bluff by the age of two. By four a child is an accomplished liar, and by five, he or she realises that truly outrageous lies are less likely to be believed.

I am forgiving of a mistake, but I am not forgiving when it is repeated. It means you didn't learn from it

He says that everything a cook needs to know—everything, mind you—is contained in five books: Escoffier, Larousse, Hering's Dictionary, La Repetoire. I tell him that's only four. "And Câreme," he says. He pauses. "No one wants.

George grinned and observed that success is always grounded in simply asking the right question

We don't learn to talk, as most think. We start to talk when our brain is good and ready to say something.

The greatness of Intel is not that it is smarter than other companies (though it may well be) or that it is too clever and competent to make a false move (we've just seen a stunning example of the very opposite) but that it has consistently done better than any company, perhaps ever, at recovering from its mistakes.

Liberal education intertwines the philosophical and rhetorical so that we learn how to learn, so that we continue both inquiry and cultural participation throughout our lives because learning has become part of who we are.

The university should not be a cloister; it should be a laboratory that creates habits of action through inquiry laced with compassion, memory, and fidelity.

You need to be willing to wipe the slate clean and admit that you may not know everything about running. This is the best advice I can give for staying injury-free

I view life as a learning experience. It is not so much all about music it is about what happens when you are doing the music.

The day we stop learning is the day we die.

Knowledge itself is never dangerous, it is how that knowledge is used that is dangerous

Impatience and stupidity claim more victims than any weapon.