Quotes About Learning

There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don't know we don't know. —DONALD RUMSFELD

But being uncomfortable is a virtue, not a hindrance.

How vital then that we come to know God's Word as a familiar friend: Even the Holy Spirit cannot cause us to remember something we never learned!

an old Zen proverb: "When the master points at the Moon, many people never see it at all, they only look at the master.

Mon père ne m'a pas appris la langue des femmes de son peuple.

Ninety percent of asking questions is about listening to answers.

Dealing with morons Ã¢â'¬Â¦ is like teaching Hindu to a beagle.

You got to imagine your memory is like an old bucket, you know? Once it's filled up with old stuff there ain't no way to get new stuff in. No way at all, you understand? So I don't remember any new stuff because my old bucket is all filled up with old stuff that happened way back. You understand what I'm saying here?

I may be an old guy, but the truth is old guys remember stuff real well. Not recent things, you understand, but old things. You got to imagine your memory is like an old bucket, you know? Once it's filled up with old stuff there ain't no way to get new stuff in. No way at all, you understand? So I don't remember any new stuff because my old bucket is all filled up with old stuff that happened way back.

Does this thing have fast forward?" Sorenson asked. "Hold down the shift key," the kid said.

If I 'ad known zen what I know now.

then what I know now. Which phrase is used a lot.

Maybe of not having to say if I had known then what I know now. Which phrase is used a lot.

Text messaging," Pauling said. "What's that?" "You can send written words by cell phone." "When did that start?" "Years ago." "OK," Reacher said. "Live and learn.

You got to imagine your memory is like an old bucket, you know? Once it's filled up with old stuff there ain't no way to get new stuff in.

And training has a purpose. It takes people who aren't necessarily very smart and it makes them seem smart by beating some basic tactical awareness into them. Until it becomes instinctive.

get something out of them.

I said, "I don't need no education.

Night School

21. Escuela nocturna (Night School)

Learning is relatively easy when the link between cause and effect is clear. But complex systems often sever that connection: causes remote from effects, solutions detached from problems, and feedback delayed or misleading (Cyert and March, 1963; Senge, 1990).

The WELLians were learning how to turn their private experiences into a public commodity.

They say experience is the best teacher, but I'll be damned if I know what it teaches you.

I believe all suffering contains at least the opportunity for good," came his response, "but not everyone actualizes that potential. Not all of us learn and benefit from suffering; that's where free will comes in. One prisoner in a concentration camp will react quite differently from another, because of the choice each one makes to respond to the environment.