Learning Quotes - Page 51

Quality in education is what makes learning a pleasure and a joy.

Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.

So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.

One cannot guess how a word functions. One has to look at its use and learn from that. But the difficulty is to remove the prejudice which stands in the way of doing this. It is not a stupid prejudice.

I really had no religious upbringing, which is unusual. But I think it saved me, because when I found the theory that I wanted to follow, I did not have anything to unlearn.

I found in rules of mathematics a peace and a trust that I could not place in human beings. This sublimation was total and remained total.

Science is founded on uncertainty. Each time we learn something new and surprising, the astonishment comes with the realization that we were wrong before.

You can learn much about life from a checker game: surrender one to take two; don't make two moves at one time; move up, not down; and when you reach the top, you may move as you like.

The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business--or almost anywhere else for that matter.

Recognizing your own ignorance is the first step toward wisdom.

I have to say I've made many mistakes, and been humbled many, many times. But you know what? It's never too late to learn.

The heart is as important as the head in learning

Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them.

I spent my life learning to feel less.

Those, who are strongly wedded to what I shall call 'the classical theory', will fluctuate, I expect, between a belief that I am quite wrong and a belief that I am saying nothing new. It is for others to determine if either of these or the third alternative is right.

To be interested is to be absorbed in, wrapped up in, carried away by, some object. To take an interest is to be on the alert, to care about, to be attentive.

To go faster you must slow down.

The only jewel which will not decay is knowledge.

Each has his own happiness in his hands, as the artist handles the rude clay he seeks to reshape it into a figure; yet it is the same with this art as with all others: only the capacity for it is innate; the art itself must be learned and painstakingly practiced.

I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.

Computer Science is the only discipline in which we view adding a new wing to a building as being maintenance.

People who are cocky and arrogant say, 'I know that' and move along. People who are confident and positive ask themselves,' How good am I at that?' and seek to improve

I think success has no rules, but you can learn a great deal from failure.

It's not so much what you have to learn if you accept weird theories, it's what you have to UNlearn.

The average man takes life as a trouble. He is in a chronic state of irritation at the whole performance. He does not learn to differentiate between troubles and difficulties, usually, until some real trouble bowls him over. He fusses about pin-pricks until a mule kicks him. Then he learns the difference.