Learning Quotes - Page 41

One destitute of wealth is not destitute, he is indeed rich, but the man devoid of learning is destitute in every way.

My sister bought me a set at a candy store and taught me the moves.

Learn first to love yourself, and then you can love me.

Some of the guys I played with .. didn't go around learning more about their instruments from an intellectual point of view. All they wanted was to play hot jazz, and the instrument was just a means. I'd imagine that a lot of them criticized me-said my technique was too good. Something like that. But I've always wanted to know what made music. How you do it, and why it sounds good. I always practiced, worked like hell.

All the time a person is a child he is both a child and learning to be a parent. After he becomes a parent he becomes predominantly a parent reliving childhood.

Sadly, children's passion for thinking often ends when they encounter a world that seeks to educate them for conformity and obedience only.

Everyone gets the same twenty-four hours in a day, the difference is how you use it.

I've learned it's always better to have a small percentage of a big success, than a hundred percent of nothing.

We think only through the medium of words. Languages are true analytical methods. Algebra, which is adapted to its purpose in every species of expression, in the most simple, most exact, and best manner possible, is at the same time a language and an analytical method. The art of reasoning is nothing more than a language well arranged.

Problems only exist in the human mind.

Standardized personalization=universal right to meaningful learning. Personalized standardization=flexible access to mandated learning.

It's important to be innovative when times are prosperous. It's essential to be innovative when they are not.

As we acquire knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious.

I praise God for you, sir: your reasons at dinner have been sharp and sententious; pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, audacious without impudency, learned without opinion, and strange with-out heresy.

There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.

I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I feel my fate in what I cannot fear. I learn by going where I have to go.

People whose talents are not exploited become disenchanted and disruptive.

There is one very good reason to learn programming, but it has nothing to do with preparing for high-tech careers or with making sure one is computer literate in order to avoid being cynically manipulated by the computers of the future. The real value of learning to program can only be understood if we look at learning to program as an exercise of the intellect, as a kind of modern-day Latin that we learn to sharpen our minds.

The truth is not a crystal that can be slipped into one's pocket, but an endless current into which one falls headlong.

A student can win twelve letters at a university without learning how to write one.

Learning is a lifetime process, but there comes a time when we must stop adding and start updating.

Unintended consequences get to the heart of why you never really understand an adaptive problem until you have solved it. Problems morph and "solutions" often point to deeper problems. In social life, as in nature, we are walking on a trampoline. Every inroad reconfigures the environment we tread on.

Nature is not cruel, only pitilessly indifferent. This is one of the hardest lessons for humans to learn. We cannot admit that things might be neither good nor evil, neither cruel nor kind, but simply callous-indifferent to all suffering, lacking all purpose.

In due course we arrive, if wit can be said that we ever fully arrive. The truth is there are destinations beyond destinations and do the confirmed sailor goes on tacking forever.

I really believe that you never stop learning.