Quotes About Learning

A mere scholar, a mere ass.

He that increaseth wisdom, increaseth sorrow.

That which others hear or read of, I felt and practised myself; they get their knowledge by books, I mine by melancholizing.

What a glut of books! Who can read them?

I light my candle from their torches.

that I have read many books, but to little purpose, for want of good method; I have confusedly tumbled over divers authors in our libraries, with small profit, for want of art, order, memory, judgment.

It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers. —James Thurber (1894–1961)

Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

You should plan on working 60 hours per week. The first 40 are for your employer. The remaining 20 are for you. During this remaining 20 hours you should be reading, practicing, learning and otherwise enhancing your career.

the ratio of time spent reading vs. writing is well over 10:1.

Learning to write clean code is hard work. It requires more than just the knowledge of principles and patterns. You must sweat over it. You must practice it yourself, and watch yourself fail. You must watch others practice it and fail. You must see them stumble and retrace their steps. You must see them agonize over decisions and see the price they pay for making those decisions the wrong way.

Professional developers do not prevent others from working in the code. They do not build walls of ownership around code. Rather, they work with each other on as much of the system as they can. They learn from each other by working with each other on other parts of the system.

As you mature in your profession, your error rate should rapidly decrease towards the asymptote of zero.

I told you those two stories because they describe two very different kinds of mentoring, neither of which are the kind that the word usually implies. In the first case I learned from the authors of a very well-written manual. In the second case I learned by observing people who were actively trying to ignore me. In both cases the knowledge gained was profound and foundational.

If you're good at the debugger it means you spent a lot of time debugging. I don't want you to be good at the debugger.

There are two parts to learning craftsmanship: knowledge and work. You must gain the knowledge of principles, patterns, practices, and heuristics that a craftsman knows, and you must also grind that knowledge into your fingers, eyes, and gut by working hard and practicing.

all winter, far into the night, we read books and we practised writing. 20.

Most people are willing to pay more to be amused than to be educated.

If Hegel could not be taught to ordinary intelligent people, then I for one would not find reason to read him at all.

Teaching philosophy isn't what I do. Teaching philosophy is, sort of, what I am.

Now, for this book I had to learn the world of the Senate, which is really for all that's written about the Senate, an unknowing world and its mores, and the way things work with subcommittees and all. I loved learning about that.

One of the first things I learned when I began teaching courses in critical thinking in 1974 was that those of us trained in philosophy needed to supplement our philosophical training with the study of various cognitive, perceptual, and affective biases or illusions. We had a lot to learn from the social scientists if we were to teach our students to think critically. Identifying fallacies, learning to test deductive arguments for validity, and the like would not be enough.

Examples is more forcible than precept. People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh.

What we cannot remember, we must rediscover.