Quotes About Learning

As I found, if you complete your work more efficiently, your reward is more billable work, not more leisure time. However, once you're comfortable with the facts of a case, you simply lack the incentive to resolve the case, since you'll just have to start the arduous task of learning a new case.

The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts but of values.

The aim of education is the knowledge not of fact, but of values.

Faith begins as an experiment and ends as an experience.

every time the brain calculates the area of a rectangle, or sight-reads a piece of music, or tests an experimental hypothesis, the neurons involved are chemically changed to make it easier to travel the same path again. Kandel's research seems to have identified that repetition forms the chains that Polanyi called tacit knowing, and that James Watt called "the correct modes of reasoning.

The most disgraceful thing for kings is to disdain learning and be afraid of science.

The Encyclopédie itself promised "to offer craftsmen the chance to learn35 from philosophers, and thereby hopefully to advance further toward perfection.

Many more learned their science in the most practical way: as apprentices to artisans who were more likely to be literate than ever before in history.

We do know, however, that these differences—really dfferences in style rather than ability—are not handicaps or disabilities (unlike such barriers to learning as poor vision, mild brain damage, emotional disturbance or orthopedic handicap).

It's my side. I have found the pain. It is in my side, and I isolate it and define it, and arrange the other pains around it. I tell myself that pain is information, that I am learning to map the spaces of my own body. Then my body's feelings cascade toward my side, and pain pours over its outlines and erases them. ("Marriage")

Nobody stands taller than those willing to stand corrected.

Knowing how things work is the basis for appreciation, and is thus a source of civilized delight.

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

What can I tell you, except the stupid little I know?

I am enormously wise and abysmally ignorant

The one thing you've got to say about Columbia is that it has courses that are famous. It has alumni who come back and say it was the best thing they ever did.

The British system had requirements, including Latin. I'm not positive you ever had to know Greek, but there are certainly kinds of curricula where you had to know Greek too. I think in Britain there was the most mindless, repetitive sort of learning.

Thus the student leaves by the same door through which he entered, and is no different than before. Yet, having internalized all of his practices, he is totally changed.

Parenting is a learn-as-you-go profession.

Sweet are the uses of adversity.

Experience is by industry achieved, and perfected by the swift course of time

Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits.

Always the dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits.