Quotes About Learning

The brain can be a wonderful tool, can be a willing slave, as has been evidenced by some men, but of course it works poorly when it has not the habit of usage. An automobile can become a source of delight, but the first time you drive you are as apt to go up a tree as to go up the road.

Don't ask for a criticism until you are sure you can't give it yourself. Then you will be in a fine state to receive it.

I learned easily and had time to follow my inclination for sports (light athletics and skiing) and chemistry, which I taught myself by reading all textbooks I could get.

Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes, in the nature of the case, different points of view.

There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism.

We do not know what education can do for us, because we have never tried it.

When your boss listens to you carefully, reaches out to help you, and learns from you, it enhances your dignity and pride. Doing so also helps your boss gain empathy for you, to better understand how it feels to be you and what you need to succeed in your job and life.

Make sure that slow learners are rewarded—or at least not punished— for expressing their deviant views and acting in odd ways.

Organizations that learn from their failures forgive and remember, they don't forgive and forget.

Ignorance, mediocrity, and mistakes run rampant when organizations fail to link the right people to the right information at the right time. This

Einstein said, "A person who has never made a mistake never tried anything new.

Focus on "pulling the plug" on failed ideas more quickly, not on reducing your failure rate.

Every boss can't have deep knowledge of every follower's expertise. When that happens, a boss's job is to ask good questions, listen, defer to those with greater expertise, and, above all, to accept his or her own ignorance. Those who fail to do so risk making bad decisions and ruining their reputations.

He learned and heard many things about the San Francisco Fire Department from powerful people who forgot he was present—including a lot of dirt—that helped him become an effective leader in a long battle against discrimination in the department.

Most companies automatically search for fast learners, gregarious people with social graces, who are willing and able to bend to the wishes of others.

To obtain high marks in school often requires a high degree of conformity to conventional ways of looking at the world and people."24

Can you start with a small commitment rather than a big one? A small project for a client or perhaps an internship or trial period? That way, you can learn if there is an asshole problem before you sign up for the long term.

to find a few ideas that work, you need to try a lot that don't.

As more people become more intelligent they care less for preachers and more for teachers.

If the account given in Genesis is really true, ought we not, after all, to thank this serpent? He was the first schoolmaster, the first advocate of learning, the first enemy of ignorance, the first to whisper in human ears the sacred word liberty, the creator of ambition, the author of modesty, of inquiry, of doubt, of investigation, of progress and of civilization.

There are treasures in books that all the money in the world cannot buy, but the poorest laborer can have for nothing.

Those who make compassion an essential part of their lives find the joy of life. Kindness deepens the spirit and produces rewards that cannot be completely explained in words. It is an experience more powerful than words. To become acquainted with kindness one must be prepared to learn new things and feel new feelings. Kindness is more than a philosophy of the mind. It is a philosophy of the spirit.

To become acquainted with kindness one must be prepared to learn new things and feel new feelings. Kindness is more than a philosophy of the mind. It is a philosophy of the spirit.

The quality of a university is measured more by the kind of student it turns out than the kind it takes in.