Learning Quotes - Page 30

There are a million things in music I know nothing about. I just want to narrow down that figure.

True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.

Collect as precious pearls the words of the wise and virtuous.

If nobody said anything unless he knew what he was talking about, a ghastly hush would descend upon the earth.

In learning to pay respectful attention to one another and plants and animals, we relearn the acts of empathy, and thus humility and compassion - ways of proceeding that grow more and more necessary as the world crowds in.

Enthusiasm is the match that lights the candle of achievement.

Only people who die very young learn all they really need to know in kindergarten.

Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Doing more things faster is no substitute for doing the right things.

My headmaster chastised me with a diabolical instrument a leather strap tacked to a piece of wood but he taught me with such villainous success that I am now Prime Minister.

Humility is the first step towards learning. You can’t learn until you are humble enough to realize there is something for you to learn.

You won't learn if you think you already know everything.

Touch is the most fundamental sense. A baby experiences it, all over, before he is born and long before he learns to use sight, hearing, or taste, and no human ever ceases to need it. Keep your children short on pocket money but long on hugs

Fancy algorithms are slow when N is small, and N is usually small.

There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can't prove that there aren't any, so shouldn't we be agnostic with respect to fairies?

You can never learn less; you can only learn more.

I learned the way a monkey learns - by watching its parents.

I have a lot of energy. I have a great desire to absorb information. I’m not a sponge exactly, but I find that something I look at — just walking around Williamsburg, for example — is a great opportunity for ideas. I’ve been here before, I’ve seen things before, but now my eye gets keener and keener. So I can pick up little things: just the pattern of a brick walk, or the way they’ve attached a light to a house.

Supposing is good, but finding out is better.

I hit a ball for a living, but I have that passion to keep learning.

A leader these days needs to be a host - one who convenes diversity; who convenes all viewpoints in creative processes where our mutual intelligence can come forth.

As we have come to view teaching, it begins with an act of reason, continues with a process of reasoning, culminates in performances of imparting, eliciting, involving, or enticing, and is then thought about some more until the process can begin again

I'm a big believer in growth. Life is not about achievement, it's about learning and growth, and developing qualities like compassion, patience, perseverance, love, and joy, and so forth. And so if that is the case, then I think our goals should include something which stretches us.

Most learning is not the result of instruction. It is rather the result of unhampered participation in a meaningful setting. Most people learn best by being "with it," yet school makes them identify their personal, cognitive growth with elaborate planning and manipulation.

True literacy is becoming an arcane art, and the nation is steadily "dumbing down."