Learning Quotes

Learning has always been made much of, but forgetting has always been deprecated; therefore pedantry has pretty well established itself throughout the modern world at the expense of culture.

Diligent as one must be in learning, one must be as diligent in forgetting; otherwise the process is one of pedantry, not culture.

Concerning culture as a process, one would say that it means learning a great many things and then forgetting them; and the forgetting is as necessary as the learning.

Four years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating notion that now I could teach myself.

It's not up to us what we learn, but merely whether we learn through joy or through pain.

The scriptures say to wake up from the deep sleep of ignorance, remain fully awake, remain conscious, & go on learning.

Build your house on the rock of learning; no one can take your education away from you.

No man is the wiser for his learning

True taste is forever growing, learning, reading, worshipping, laying its hand upon its mouth because it is astonished, casting its shoes from off its feet because it finds all ground holy.

It takes a great deal of living to get a little deal of learning.

I think it's so important to keep learning and keep your brain active.

It occurs to her that she should record this flash of insight in her journal - otherwise she is sure to forget, for she is someone who is always learning and forgetting and obliged to learn again.

If this validates anything, it's that learning how to bunt and hit-and-run and turning two is more important than knowing where to find the little red light on the dugout camera.

An individual who stands out, or disagrees or takes risks is a danger to such systems and is effortlessly and, unconsciously sidelined.

Any noun can be verbed.

A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.

The chief art of learning is to attempt but a little at a time.

I was 17 and just learning what high fidelity was, what good sound was, and learning the mechanics of tape machines. It was a real education, going right from the consumer end to the record factory.

Managers must see themselves as experimenters who lead learning, not dictators who impose control.

Scholars are wont to sell their birthright for a mess of learning.

Learning to sing one's own songs, to trust the particular cadences of own's voices, is also the goal of any writer.

Whatever authority I may have rests solely on knowing how little I know.

Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues.

Something the heart must have to cherish, Must love and joy and sorrow learn; Something with passion clasp, or perish And in itself to ashes burn.

A man is a great bundle of tools. He is born into this life without the knowledge of how to use them. Education is the process of learning their use.

I've been with the Yankees 17 years, watching games and learning. You can see a lot by observing.

When Goya was 80 he drew an ancient man propped on two sticks, with a great mass of white hair and beard all over his face, and the inscription, "I am still learning."

There's nothing final about a mistake, except its being taken as final.

We need to bring learning to people instead of people to learning

The Tibetans are good at learning many skillful ways to show that everything we do becomes dharma practice, depending on which kind of approach we use.

One Tree Hill was a great learning opportunity for me, and Im excited to go and apply that elsewhere and see where I end up.

I don't always have a five-year plan. One thing you must do in life is keep your learning curve as high as possible.

Learning how to fly, for me, was so euphoric.

About medications that are drunk or applied to wounds it is worth learning from everyone; for people do not discover these by reasoning but by chance, and experts not more than laymen.

You must want to enough. Enough to take all the rejections, enough to pay the price of disappointment and discouragement while you are learning.

I am, by nature, a guitar player... I learned all of these other instruments around that, and around the theory that I built learning the guitar.

The Jewish tradition of learning-is learning. Adam chose knowledge instead of immortality.

Learning how to die is therefore learning how to live.

Remember that the secret of all learning is patience and that curiosity is not the same thing as a thirst for knowledge.

Admitting that you do not know something is the first step to learning.

I learned to embrace risk, as long as it was well thought out and, in a worst-case scenario, I'd still land on my feet.

From a programmer's point of view, the user is a peripheral that types when you issue a read request.

I’m learning that to be at home everywhere, I have to be sure to include the place I actually live.

Most new insights come only after a superabundant accumulation of facts have removed the blindness which prevented us from seeing what later comes to be regarded as obvious.

When Honor's sun declines, and Wealth takes wings, Then Learning shines, the best of precious things.

Repetition is the key to real learning.

That's your opportunity - to approach your work in a way that generates unique learning and interactions that are worth sharing.

Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.

I spent a lot of years just learning my craft and falling down in front of the camera.

He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind, he has descended into the secrets of all minds.