Quotes About Learning

she fell asleep wondering if turning frogs into princes could be learned. Or do you have to be born royalty?

Ah, ja... de verkeerslichten. Die weet ik nog.' 'Weet je die nog? Wat bedoel je?' 'Ik moet steeds goed onthouden welke kleur welke is als ik in deze gastheer zit. Katten kunnen de kleur rood namelijk niet zien,' legde Leo uit. 'Schitterend! Ik krijg rijlessen van een kleurenblinde daemon!

There is no shame in not knowing something," he said gently. "The shame is in not being willing to learn.

No es ninguna vergüenza no saber nada. La vergüenza es no tener ansias de aprender.

The most wise are those who know how little they know!" They

There is no shame in not knowing something. The shame is not being willing to learn.

There is no shame in not knowing something," he said gently. "The shame is in not being willing to learn

I don't know everything. No one does, and only the foolish seek to.

Everything is difficult," she whispered. "Maybe that's something else that I've learned.

It is ever the way of the Knowing. I have often thought it is like a light blooming on a dark sea: as it increases, so does the depth and size of the unknown. The most wise are those who know how little they know!

There is no shame in not knowing something. The shame is in not being willing to learn.

She'd been a hard taskmistress - How can you be a grown-up if you can't look after yourself? she'd challenged - but she had taught him what no Greek mother ever taught a son: the basic humdrum skills required for independence.

Knowledge breeds confidence.

It seemed to me like the ultimate wrong lesson for a girl her age to be learning. (If she wanted to watch reality TV, I reasoned, why not something like Survivor or The Amazing Race or even American Idol, where winning was based on real skills?) I suppose deep down,

Knowledge, after all, could not be unlearned.

What's it like to be a baby? It's like being in love in Paris for the first time after you've had three double espressos.

It's not that children are little scientists — it's that scientists are big children. Scientists actually are the few people who as adults get to have this protected time when they can just explore, play, figure out what the world is like.

Asking questions is what brains were born to do, at least when we were young children. For young children, quite literally, seeking explanations is as deeply rooted a drive as seeking food or water.

It's not that children are little scientists but that scientists are big children.

I'll show that babies, like scientists, use statistics and experiments to learn about the world.

Our brains are designed to arrive at an accurate picture of the world, and to use that accurate picture to act on the world effectively, at least overall and in the long run. The same computational and neurological capacities that let us make discoveries about physics or biology also let us make discoveries about love.

We decided to become developmental psychologists and study children because there aren't any Martians. These brilliant beings with the little bodies and big heads are the closest we can get to a truly alien intelligence (even if we may occasionally suspect that they are bent on making us their slaves.)

If the child is a budding psychologist, we parents are the laboratory rats.

What makes the terrible twos so terrible is not that the babies do things you don't want them to do --- one-year-olds are plenty good at that --- but that they do things because you don't want them to.