Quotes About Learning

You've an excellent eye. They're shit. But that's how you know what a truly great teacher I am. Any fool can get results from the gifted.

There was no magic to it. She simply listened, observed, and made sure she never spoke until she knew what she was speaking of. Knowledge is the root of power, after all.

being a parent … there is no plan. It's just a set of mistakes you hardly notice making.

Travel brings wisdom only to the wise. It renders the ignorant more ignorant than ever. Master

But I suppose regrets at least prevent one from repeating the same mistakes.

better next time. That's what life is." Logen

The mistakes of old,' intoned Bayaz with the highest pomposity, 'should be made only once. Any worthwhile education, therefore, must be founded on a sound understanding of history.

Yolk grinned. "If there's one thing I'm good at, it's doing things badly.

Perhaps you'll see now you have children of your own … being a parent … there is no plan. It's just a set of mistakes you hardly notice making.

has taught the two of us

I graduated from the University of Delaware with a double major in history and political science.

I went to school at this log school house. A white woman was my teacher, I do not remember her name. My father had to pay her one dollar a month for me. Us kids that went to school did not have desks, we used slates and set on the hued down logs for seats.

self-directed neuroplasticity (or SDN).

When you know that you know "how" to do something, you're on your way to mastering it.

Knowledge without experience is merely philosophy; experience without knowledge is ignorance.

El propósito del alma es aprender de la experiencia y adquirir sabiduría, pero si te has quedado atrapado en una emoción, nunca aprendiste de la experiencia, no superaste esta emoción ni la transformaste en conocimiento.

Familiar Memories "Re-mind" Us to Reproduce the Same Experiences

Si los conocimientos son para la mente y las experiencias para el cuerpo, cuando aplicas los conocimientos y creas una experiencia nueva, le enseñas al cuerpo lo que la mente ha aprendido intelectualmente. Los conocimientos sin la experiencia no son más que filosofía; la experiencia sin conocimientos no es más que ignorancia. Existe una progresión que debe darse. Tienes que adquirir conocimientos y vivirlos, aceptarlos emocionalmente.

We do not even know that we don't even know.

The conscious mind is where we store our explicit, or declarative, memories. Therefore, declarative memories are memories that we can declare. They're the knowledge we've learned (termed semantic memories) and experiences we've had in this lifetime (episodic memories).

Strong emotional experiences create long-term memories. So this new internal experience creates new long-term memories that override our past long-term memories, thus the choice becomes an experience that we never forget.

So as soon as you think a new thought, you become changed—neurologically, chemically, and genetically. In fact, you can gain thousands of new connections in a matter of seconds from novel learning, new ways of thinking, and fresh experiences. This means that by thought alone, you can personally activate new genes right away. It happens just by changing your mind; it's mind over matter.

Without learning and experiencing, we never upgrade our neural architecture.

My definition of genius, then, is to be uncomfortable and to be okay with being uncomfortable.