Quotes About Learning

If we would please in society, we must be prepared to be taught many things we know already by people who do not know them.

I listened eagerly to what they had to say and religiously followed their tips. Whatever I was told to buy, I bought. It took me a long time to discover that this is one method that never works.

At this time I studied books like: R. C. Effinger ABC of Investing Dice & Eiteman The Stock Market B. E. Schultz The Securities Market: And How It Works Leo Barnes Your Investments H. M. Gartley Profit In The Stock Market Curtis Dahl Consistent Profits In The Stock Market E. J. Mann You Can Make Money In The Stock Market

When you want to be well-liked in the world, you have to let a lot of people teach you things that you know and they don't.

Ce que j'ai appris, je l'ai oublié ; ce que je sais, je l'ai inventé.

Quand on veut plaire dans le monde, il faut se résoudre à se laisser apprendre beaucoup de choses qu'on sait par des gens qui les ignorent.

In an age in which the media broadcast countless pieces of foolishness, the educated man is defined not by what he knows, but by what he doesn't know.

Peut-être les hommes apprendront-ils de leur passé, peut-être disparaitront-ils dans leur quête irraisonnée de pouvoir...

To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

I have an education, I went to college, you know?

The process of growing and learning always involves risk.

Admire your heroes. Adapt from your models. learn from your mentors.

Training is anchored in the past. Education looks to the future.

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field.

By studying the masters -- not their pupils.

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.

An expert is a person who has found out by his own painful experience all the mistakes that one can make in a very narrow field.

But our Great Leader Chairman Mao told us, 'Learn to swim from swimming.' We should learn from taking part in revolutionary activities and from active labor.

I'm always improving and I want to get better and never hit a plateau. I find it an amazing adventure.

Human knowledge progresses when people recognize that they may be wrong even on issues that seem certain to them. Wisdom involves openness to those who disagree with us. It is only when our ideas have been subjected to criticism and all objections considered—if necessary seeking these objections out—that we have any right to think of our judgement as better than another's.

You feel you're learning everything about love as you watch him, from the other side. He imagines you leaving your cozy London world for a man in his thirties who has no real job, who still travels on buses, who's never found a firm footing with his life. The poet, the dreamer, and you would have fallen for it once. But you're too old, now. You just want to fuck.

Suffering should always open the door to wisdom.

I spend a lot of time learning about bird watching.

Mistakes are a fact of life: It is the response to the error that counts.