Quotes About Learning

Never try to tell everything you know. It may take too short a time.

first, in order to remember, something must be forgotten; second, the place where memories are stored has no boundaries. In other words, forgetting is a twin; its tandem effect is best called "simultancous" distraction, the instant when one memory defoliates another. This fuzzy double - one devouring the other - presumably inhibits learning

To start with, the idea of "children," in the everyday sense of the term, learning "rigorous science and mathematics" is palpably absurd.'] In the course of history a few actual children have managed the trick-Pascal, Gauss, and Galois come to mind-but such talent is as rare as that of Mozart or Mendelssohn. Even Newton was unacquainted with rigorous science and mathematics before the age of twenty!

And the second question, can poetry be taught? I didn't think so.

Scholars, I plead with you, Where are your dictionaries of the wind, the grasses?

When I was young, a teacher had forbidden me to say "more perfect" because she said if a thing is perfect it can't be more so. But by now I had seen enough of life to have regained my confidence in it.

The most important use to which he had put his memory was that he had stuffed an unprecedented number of mathematical constants and equations into it. Most of us have very few mathematical constants in our mind, perhaps only the up-to-twelve-times multiplication table. Johnny had put in his mind layers and layers of algebraic verities. These were the explanation of his extraordinary powers of mental calculation.

People move forward into the future out of the way they comprehend the past. When we don't understand something in our past, we are therefore crippled.

You learn far more from negative leadership than from positive leadership. Because you learn how not to do it. And, therefore, you learn how to do it.

As a child, I read science fiction, but from the very beginnings of my reading for pleasure, I read a lot of non-fictional history, particularly historical biography.

We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.

La macchina tecnologicamente più efficiente che l'uomo abbia mai inventato è il libro.

This is an example of why the humanists have always insisted that you don't learn to think wholly from one language: you learn to think better from linguistic conflict, from bouncing one language off another.

I think kids slowly begin to realize that what they're learning relates to other things they know. Then learning starts to get more and more exciting.

You must never feel badly about making mistakes ... as long as you take the trouble to learn from them. For you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons.

The only thing you can do easily is be wrong, and that's hardly worth the effort.

You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and not get wet.

It has been a long trip," said Milo, climbing onto the couch where the princesses sat; "but we would have been here much sooner if I hadn't made so many mistakes. I'm afraid it's all my fault." "You must never feel badly about making mistakes," explained Reason quietly, "as long as you take the trouble to learn from them. For you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons.

what you learn today, for no reason at all, will help you discover all the wonderful secrets of tomorrow.

And remember, also," added the Princess of Sweet Rhyme, "that many places you would like to see are just off the map and many things you want to know are just out of sight or a little beyond your reach. But someday you'll reach them all, for what you learn today, for no reason at all, will help you discover all the wonderful secrets of tomorrow.

My father had never watched tennis, never liked tennis too much. He said, 'OK, we buy a racket, we watch together ' because we didn't know anything. It was a process of learning together that made it more interesting.

Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.

The most intimate community of all knowledge—the republic of learning is the high purpose of scholars.