Quotes About Learning

My ignorance is essential. I do not write what I know but what I need to know.

Yes, I know Marcus Aurelius or Vauvenargues or Chesterton has already said this, and far better; but let's face it — you weren't listening then either.

In fact, life is our greatest teacher. Whatever we are doing can be instructive, whether we are at the office, or talking to our spouse, or driving a car on the freeway. If we are present to our experiences, the impressions of our activities will be fresh and alive, and we will always learn something new from them. But if we are not present, every moment will be like every other, and nothing of the preciousness of life will touch us.

Sad Fact of Life— Smart people sometimes get stupid, but stupid people never get smart. Never. Ever.

Smart people sometimes get stupid, but stupid people never get smart.

Smart people sometimes get stupid, but stupid people never get smart. Never. Ever. 'You can come down the evolutionary ladder,' Chon has observed to Ben and O; 'you can't climb up.

Stupid is forever, ignorance can be fixed.

Learning should take place when it is needed, when the learner is interested, not according to some arbitrary, fixed schedule

Fail often, fail fast

Zen master Shunryu Suzuki writes, "In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's there are few."8

An investigator starts research in a new field with faith, a foggy idea, and a few wild experiments. Eventually the interplay of negative and positive results guides the work. By the time the research is completed, he or she knows how it should have been started and conducted.

I discovered that in a story I could safely dream any dream, hope any hope, go anywhere I pleased any time I pleased, fight any foe, win or lose, live or die. My stories created a safe experimental learning place.

No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar.

Common sense and education are highly compatible in fact, neither is worth much without the other.

I personally don't believe people really grow. They just learn stuff when they were a kid, and hold on to it, and that affects every relationship they have.

Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns - - the ones we don't know we don't know. And if one looks throughout the history of our country and other free countries, it is the latter category that tend to be the difficult ones.

There are times when I think that the ideal library is composed solely of reference books. They are like understanding friends-always ready to meet your mood, always ready to change the subject when you have had enough of this or that.

An encyclopedia is a book or set of books filled with facts from A to Z. So was Encyclopedia's head. He had read more books than just about anyone in Idaville, and he never forgot what he read.

What's the point of having great knowledge and keeping them all to yourself?

He had the beginning of wrinkles and the easy manner of one who has already made his mistakes.

A man who never makes mistakes has long since ceased to do anything new. A man who is always making mistakes is a doomed man with swollen ambitions. But he who judiciously salts success with mistake is the rapid learner.

People think that computer science is the art of geniuses but the actual reality is the opposite, just many people doing things that build on eachother, like a wall of mini stones.

To make mistakes or be wrong is human. To admit those mistakes shows you have the ability to learn, and are growing wiser.

If you learn from every mistake, you never fail at anything.