Quotes About Learning

Reading an endless litany of study after study-one article found this, and another experiment found this, and another study found this-is like watching laundry spinning in a dryer, except that something good eventually comes out of a dryer!

Better the fool who remains silent than the fool who who speaks and demonstrates his foolishness. Better still, the one who listens carefully.

I can look back at stuff I wrote in my early days and squirm at some of the mistakes I made. But we're all learning every day we never stop. I just hope people keep on liking what I do. That gives me such a kick.

I hate to be wrong. It makes me feel like a failure. Being wrong has the same affect on me as a lack of food or sleep. It lowers my entire mood. But, I need to be proved wrong sometimes, as it restores humility, and doesn't allow my ego to swell to stupidly big sizes.

In our country, learned ignorance is on the rise.

In the scientific world, the syndrome known as 'great man's disease' happens when a famous researcher in one field develops strong opinions about another field that he or she does not understand, such as a chemist who decides that he is an expert in medicine or a physicist who decides that he is an expert in cognitive science. They have trouble accepting that they must go back to school before they can make pronouncements in a new field.

no man is ever a complete failure. He can always serve as a horrible example!

Forever I had not known before Forever was so long a word. The slow stroke of the clock of time I had not heard. 'Tis hard to learn so late; It seems no sad heart really learns, But hopes and trusts and doubts and fears, And bleeds and burns. The night is not all dark, Nor is the day all it seems, But each may bring me this relief— My dreams and dreams. I had not known before That Never was so sad a word, So wrap me in forgetfulness— I have not heard.

chasing. A retainer means "pay me now for work I may or may not do later." Hourly bills are exercises in creative writing. Our "research time" gets us paid to learn what we should have known or to re-learn what we have forgotten.

Always clear your mind after a bad play. Learn from your mistakes, but don't dwell on them.

Timeo hominem unius libri. 'I fear the man of one book.' It is attributed to Thomas Aquinas.

Maybe it's old-fashioned, but I'm opposed to sneakers without laces. Digital watches and pocket calculators, too. Gizmos that make life easier and dull our minds. Besides being unable to read or write, today's kids have trouble telling time, multiplying nine time seven, and tying their shoes

We give ourselves the name Homo sapiens, which means 'wise man,' but of course, we are not born that way, and we don't gain wisdom from books. We learn how to live by living. Vive ut vivas—

Fucking things up only takes a few minutes. Making things right, now, that's a lifetime job.

All we have to do to see is open our eyes and look. As we teach what we learn, I am in essence talking to myself.

It's very hard to teach anything to a young man who knows everything.

Education is a place where we ask, 'Did you get the answers right?' as opposed to, 'What did you learn?

I looked at longevity in show business when I was about 13, and the people who seemed to have longevity were the ones who'd spent quite a bit of time learning about what they were doing before they made it.

I'd never read anything like these texts, which taught me that literature demands concentration but pays you back in compound interest.

If we learned to drive as badly as we learn to make love, the roads would be nothing but wrecks. The erotic can be a window into the deepest core of feeling, but more and more doesn't get you there.

You already speak German; you just don't know it yet.

It has been a privilege to pursue knowledge for its own sake and to see how it might help mankind in more practical ways.

I think it was this curiosity about the natural world which awoke my early interest in science.

we alcoholics, when we are willing, can also learn a great deal by attending Al-Anon meetings.