Learning Quotes - Page 24

Learn about a pine tree from a pine tree, and about a bamboo plant from a bamboo plant.

Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing.

People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.

We learn to believe by believing. We learn to love by loving. The practice of acting on a certain thing, even (or especially) when feeling is absent, embodies the entire "how" of growth.

Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow (e.g., given a large enough beta-tester and co-developer base, almost every problem will be characterized quickly and the fix obvious to someone).

Our thinking and our behaviour are always in anticipation of a response. It is therefore fear-based.

You all have learned reliance On the sacred teachings of Science, So I hope, through life, you will never decline In spite of philistine Defiance To do what all good scientists do. Experiment. Make it your motto day and night. Experiment. And it will lead you to the light.

Shakespeare, Leonardo da Vinci, Benjamin Franklin and Abraham Lincoln never saw a movie, heard a radio or looked at television. They had 'Loneliness' and knew what to do with it. They were not afraid of being lonely because they knew that was when the creative mood in them would work.

It is rare to find learned men who are clean, do not stink and have a sense of humour.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.

Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

At first I hoped that such a technically unsound project would collapse but I soon realized it was doomed to success. Almost anything in software can be implemented, sold, and even used given enough determination. There is nothing a mere scientist can say that will stand against the flood of a hundred million dollars. But there is one quality that cannot be purchased in this way - and that is reliability. The price of reliability is the pursuit of the utmost simplicity. It is a price which the very rich find most hard to pay.

When will we make the same breakthroughs in the way we treat each other as we have made in technology?

The more involved you are, the more significant your learning will be.

All I really need to know... I learned in kindergarten.

It's a big theme in my life, learning about myself and being a better person. I'm a work in progress; I have revelations every day.

The ancestor of every action is a thought.

We are all afraid. That's the thing that unites all truly successful people: fear, fear of failing, fear of criticism, fear of letting down the team in some way. That why they try so hard, that's why they pay attention to detail and try to get every possible duck in a row. It's fear

It is in the character of growth that we should learn from both pleasant and unpleasant experiences.

The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work.

There was once a man, Harry, called the steppenwolf. He went on two legs, wore clothes and was a human being, but nevertheless he was in reality a wolf of the steppes. He had learned a good deal of all that people of a good intelligence can, and was a fairly clever fellow. What he had not learned, however, was this: to find contentment in himself and his own life.

It is never too late to give up our prejudices.

If we value independence, if we are disturbed by the growing conformity of knowledge, of values, of attitudes, which our present system induces, then we may wish to set up conditions of learning which make for uniqueness, for self-direction, and for self-initiated learning.

It is funny you know, you spend 12 years of your life learning about things and about life, but they never really tell you how hard life really is.

In the development of the understanding of complex phenomena, the most powerful tool available to the human intellect is abstraction. Abstraction arises from the recognition of similarities between certain objects, situations, or processes in the real world and the decision to concentrate on these similarities and to ignore, for the time being, their differences.