Quotes About Learning

What we normally mean by 'education,' " he once told a crowd of wolf advocates, is, "I want someone else to know what I know so they will have my values." In his experience, it didn't work that way.

By playing games you can artificially speed up your learning curve to develop the right kind of thought processes.

We're not that much smarter than we used to be, even though we have much more information - and that means the real skill now is learning how to pick out the useful information from all this noise.

When you try to predict future E.R.A.'s with past E.R.A.'s, you're making a mistake.

it doesn't matter how much "failure" you've experienced if you decide to respond to it constructively.

As real spiritual life declines, it has ever been the tendency to cease to advance in the knowledge of the truth.

The teacher's task is not to implant facts but to place the subject to be learned in front of the learner and, through sympathy, emotion, imagination and patience, to awaken in the learner the restless drive for answers and insights which enlarge the personal life and give it meaning.

We live in a time of such rapid change and growth of knowledge that only he who is in a fundamental sense a scholar-that is, a person who continues to learn and inquire-can hope to keep pace, let alone play the role of guide.

In a world in which the total of human knowledge is doubling about every ten years, our security can rest only on our ability to learn.

The natural inclination of a child is to take pleasure in the use of the mind no less than of the body. The child's primary business is learning. It is also the primary entertainment.

We must become what we wish to teach.

The natural inclination of a child is to take pleasure in the use of the mind no less than of the body. The child's primary business is learning. It is also the primary entertainment. To retain that orientation into adulthood, so that consciousness is not a burden but a joy, is the mark of the successfully developed human being.

Creative Copying: He also returned to his earlier practice of copying other artists' works. Apart from the fact that it could be done indoors, copying was a way of learning, and although he was now a great master (without fully recognizing the fact), Van Gogh's urge to learn remained very strong.

All his life long, he had been learning how to be wretched, as one learns a foreign tongue; and now, with the lesson thoroughly at heart, he could with difficulty comprehend his little airy happiness.

Is it possible to know the truth without challenging it first?

It would be so great if it were possible to go through life without making a single mistake but there is no such path. Falling, tripping, losing the way, making mistakes, little by little, walking one step at a time, this is the only way.

For there to be pain, there has to be kindness. For darkness to standout there has to be the sun. You can't have one without the other, and both have their uses. So even if you stumble and make mistakes, that's not useless. Think of it as fertilizer, sure it feels like crap, but it will help you grow!" ~Kyoko Honda

Everytime you fall down or take the wrong path, it isn't wasted. You will surely develop and grow over time.

It takes just as much training to get along with people. Only, training by yourself in the mountains won't do you any good. You need to surround yourself with others. As you get to know them, of course you take the chance that you'll end up hurting them, or they'll end up hurting you. One of those things might very well happen. That's the only way we learn... about others, and about ourselves.

What you don't know, what you don't understand…You can learn those things starting now. So let's change, okay? Akito. This is what I wanted to talk to you about before. If you continue to stay in this environment, the "bond" and the "Sohma family" will consume you. You'll feel empty inside forever. You'll never be satisfied. You've realized it too, haven't you?

I wish I could've lived my life without making any wrong turns. But that's impossible. A path like that doesn't exist. We fail. We trip. We get lost. We make mistakes. And little by little, one step at a time, we push forward. It's all we can do. On our own two feet.

I'm not an academic, but I've always loved poetry since I've been small.

In the business world today, failure is apparently not an option. We need to change this attitude toward failure - and celebrate the idea that only by falling on our collective business faces do we learn enough to succeed down the road.

When you experience a failure as a leader, don't hide it - talk about it. Your missed opportunity will encourage others to take risks.