Quotes About Learning

Through doubt we can learn more than through naive trust

just about every human being can reflect on his or her past and say, 'I learned from that hardship. I didn't think I would at the time, but I'm a bigger and better person for having endured it and persevered.

You know how it is—you grow up with a story all your life, it can transmute into something you neither question nor particularly value. It's why we have such bad luck learning from mistakes.

I saw it happening but could not stop it. Humility came to me too late. I'm a living proverb; learn from me.

I feel like a child. But I learn a little something every day. It's like a whole new way of living. It's a willingness to give up control. To make a commitment and have faith it'll work out.

Do you usually go hiking? This weekend, take a tennis lesson. Do you bowl? Leave that to your buddies this time. Why? Because it will give you conversational fodder for the rest of your life.

The only knowledge that is worthwhile, writes Northrop Frye. is the knowledge that leafs to wisdom, for knowledge without wisdom is a body without life.

The end of learning, he said, is to "repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him" by acquiring "true virtue" (Hughes 631). This reinforces and expands Sidney's point that the end of learning is virtuous action.

People say: idle curiosity. The one thing that curiosity cannot be is idle.

Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies.

Technique is noticed most markedly in the case of those who have not mastered it.

A combination of many stupidities can end up being a worthy man if he learns from his stupidities.

To librarians, booksellers, and collectors there is nothing limited in the subject of books about books.

Deep within our brains, as in theirs, our shadowy unconscious mind is continuously applying the lessons of our past experience to predict the consequences of our current circumstances. In fact, one way to characterize a brain is as a prediction machine.

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In the end, though he learned how to run an observatory, he fell in love with a different pursuit, the idea of applying the mathematical tools of astronomy to social data.

Or as the IBM pioneer Thomas Watson said, "If you want to succeed, double your failure rate.

Humans usually try to guess the pattern, and in the process we allow ourselves to be outperformed by a rat.

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This was the first scientific demonstration that the unconscious mind possesses knowledge that escapes the conscious mind.

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the first requirement of expanding his knowledge is induction, which is in essence the process of inferring a generalization from observations.

Human knowledge is not a mere collection, but a structure; it is a single body of interrelated cognitions.

The branch of philosophy that studies knowledge is epistemology.