Quotes on Learning

Many abolitionists have yet to learn the ABC of woman's rights.

To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

Most of the value of deep learning today is in narrow domains where you can get a lot of data. Here's one example of something it cannot do: have a meaningful conversation.

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.

His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.

Incidentally, when we're faced with a "prove or disprove," we're usually better off trying first to disprove with a counterexample, for two reasons: A disproof is potentially easier (we need just one counterexample); and nitpicking arouses our creative juices. Even if the given assertion is true, our search for a counterexample often leads to a proof, as soon as we see why a counterexample is impossible. Besides, it's healthy to be skeptical.

Mere poets are sottish as mere drunkards are, who live in a continual mist, without seeing or judging anything clearly. A man should be learned in several sciences, and should have a reasonable, philosophical and in some measure a mathematical head, to be a complete and excellent poet.

To inquisitive minds like yours and mine the reflection that the quantity of human knowledge bears no proportion to the quantity of human ignorance must be in one view rather pleasing, viz., that though we are to live forever we may be continually amused and delighted with learning something new.

We have never been so rich in books. But there has never been a generation when there is so much twaddle in print for children.

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.

Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.

No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.

Gratitude is an attitude that hooks us up to our source of supply. And the more grateful you are, the closer you become to your maker, to the architect of the universe, to the spiritual core of your being. It's a phenomenal lesson.

For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.

A different language is a different vision of life.

To grasp and hold a vision, that is the very essence of successful leadership-not only on the movie set where I learned it, but everywhere.

From the freedom to explore comes the joy of learning. From knowledge acquired by personal initiative arises the desire for more knowledge. And from mastery of the novel and beautiful world awaiting every child comes self-confidence.

I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.