Learning Quotes - Page 5

Some people seem to think that good dancers are born, but all the good dancers I have known are taught or trained.

The only way to learn a new programming language is by writing programs in it.

Learning is the process whereby knowledge is created through the transformation of experience

Learning is more effective when it is an active rather than a passive process.

We live in the present, we dream of the future and we learn eternal truths from the past.

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

The only way to learn mathematics is to do mathematics.

I always tell kids, you have two eyes and one mouth. Keep two open and one closed. You never learn anything if you're the one talking.

You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you.

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.

The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.

People who want to improve should take their defeats as lessons, and endeavor to learn what to avoid in the future. You must also have the courage of your convictions. If you think your move is good, make it.

Our heads are round so thought can change direction

Change no one. Change nothing. React to no one, react to nothing. Do not live in the past and do not, worry about the future. Stay in the eternal now, where all is well. After all you are me and I am you. There's no difference. Do not react to the world. Do not even react to your own body. Do not even react to your own thoughts. Learn to become the witness. Learn to be quiet.

The young child approaching a new subject or anew problem is like the scientist operating at the edge of his chosen field.

It is not the biggest, the brightest or the best that will survive, but those who adapt the quickest.

Whatever an education is, it should make you a unique individual, not a conformist; it should furnish you with an original spirit with which to tackle the big challenges. It should allow you to find values which will be your road map through life; it should make you spiritually rich, a person who loves whatever you are doing, wherever you are, whomever you are with; it should teach you what is important, how to live and how to die.

The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained.

The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

We are the hollow men We are the stuffed men Leaning together...

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

An inflated consciousness is always egocentric and conscious of nothing but its own existence. It is incapable of learning from the past, incapable of understanding contemporary events, and incapable of drawing right conclusions about the future. It is hypnotized by itself and therefore cannot be argued with. It inevitably dooms itself to calamities that must strike it dead.

Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.

A man only begins to be a man when he ceases to whine and revile, and commences to search for the hidden justice which regulates his life. And he adapts his mind to that regulating factor, he ceases to accuse others as the cause of his condition, and builds himself up in strong and noble thoughts; ceases to kick against circumstances, but begins to use them as aids to his more rapid progress, and as a means of the hidden powers and possibilities within himself.