Quotes About Learning

Directors who turn into big babies and shut out criticism stop learning.

Most of my technical knowledge comes from having worked in the industrial video industry.

would like to thank his colleagues, particularly Andrin and Helen, for their generous encouragement in his book-writing. Finally, he is most grateful to Christina, who, against all his instincts, got him to buy a house on a hill in the middle of nowhere. It has turned out to be a place in the middle of somewhere very special indeed, and a perfect place to write. And to his six-year-old daughter Zoe, who has taught him more than

To attain knowledge, add things every day. To attain wisdom, remove things every day. Lao-Tzu

His mother echoed that sentiment. "You become really self-sufficient when you work with the land," she said. "One of the things [Jeff] learned is that there really aren't any problems without solutions. Obstacles are only obstacles if you think they're obstacles. Otherwise, they're opportunities.

That's actually a very liberating expectation, expecting to fail," he has said.

In order for a child to learn how to handle responsibility, he must be given responsibility to handle.

I doubt if anything learnt at school is of more value than great literature learnt by heart.

You will only learn in a fight how much you've got to learn.

If no one ever tried anything, even what some folks say is impossible, no one would ever learn anything. So you just keep on trying and maybe some day you'll try something that will work.

I have a soft spot in my heart for tree houses, which have always imparted certain magic and practical knowledge.

the more we know, superficially, the less we penetrate, vertically.

Nature inspires creativity in a child by demanding visualization and the full use of the senses.

This seems clear enough: When truly present in nature, we do use all our senses at the same time, which is the optimum state of learning.

You probably learned from your failures more than from success.

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We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.

In other words, it is precisely because we have lost our grasp of the nature of knowledge that we have nothing to educate with for the salvation of our order.

Truly it is said, that knowledge is chief of all things, my son. It allows us to see clearly what we may achieve. Conjecture is no substitute for fact.

The first and most obvious understanding of education comes from the fact that anyone who can not tell Reason from rubbish is not yet in a condition to know that he can not tell Reason from rubbish, a disability, which, you would suppose, can hardly be one of those put forth as education. But it is.

Learning to treat people with respect, and learning give them the benefit of the doubt, is one of the core skills that turn a smart architect into an effective one.

I'm not a bad driver. And I never will be because I took lessons when I was quite a boy. I never had to pass a test because there wasn't such a thing when I first started driving a motor car. So I didn't have to pass one.