Learning Quotes - Page 52

As turning the logs will make a dull fire burn, so change of studies a dull brain.

A modest garden contains, for those who know how to look and to wait, more instruction than a library.

Computer science is to biology what calculus is to physics. It's the natural mathematical technique that best maps the character of the subject.

For the problem of decision-making in our complicated world is not how to get the problem simple enough so that we can all understand it; the problem is how to get our thinking about the problem as complex as humanly possible--and thus approach (we can never match) the complexity of the real world around us.

In a way, math isn't the art of answering mathematical questions, it is the art of asking the right questions, the questions that give you insight, the ones that lead you in interesting directions, the ones that connect with lots of other interesting questions -the ones with beautiful answers.

In the end, the secret to learning is so simple: Think only about whatever you love. Follow it, do it, dream about it...and it will hit you: learning was there all the time, happening by itself.

I loved making Pure Country. It was a great learning experience for me, seeing another part of the entertainment industry.

No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.

Our system of education is locked in a time capsule. You want to say to the people in charge, 'You're not using today's tools! Wake up!'

To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.

Human reason can neither predict nor deliberately shape its own future. Its advances consist in finding out where it has been wrong.

More than ever before, we need to learn and apply the principles of economic self-reliance. We do not know when the crisis involving sickness or unemployment may affect our own circumstances. We do know that the Lord has decreed global calamities for the future and has warned and forewarned us to be prepared. For this reason the Brethren have repeatedly stressed a 'back to basics' program for temporal and spiritual welfare.

More important than learning how to recall things is finding ways to forget things that are cluttering the mind.

It is today that we create the world of the future.

Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote.

It's only through listening that you learn, and I never want to stop learning.

We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance. Only by learning to love one another can our world be saved. Only love can conquer all.

This type of man who is devoted to the study of wisdom is always most unlucky in everything, and particularly when it comes to procreating children; I imagine this is because Nature wants to ensure that the evils of wisdom shall not spread further throughout mankind.

Business is a conversation because the defining work of business is conversation - literally. And 'knowledge workers' are simply those people whose job consists of having interesting conversations.

We learn simply by the exposure of living, and what we learn most natively is the tradition in which we live.

I love learning new techniques.

True values are not taught and declared, they evolve through the acts and interaction of the living, they are understood at a near tacit level by those who live them.

The really faithful lover of learning holds fast to the Good Way till death.

The silent treasuring up of knowledge; learning without satiety; and instructing others without being wearied: which one of these things belongs to me?

I keep working because I learn something new all the time.