Quotes on Learning

All learning begins when our comfortable ideas turn out to be inadequate.

To become learned, each day add something. To become enlightened, each day drop something

Learn the fundamentals of the game and stick to them. Band-Aid remedies never last.

I once heard a learned man say, "Every evil has its remedy, except folly. To reprimand an obstinate fool or to preach to a dolt is like writing upon the water. Christ healed the blind, the halt, the palsied, and the leprous. But the fool He could not cure."

I ... began my career as a wireless amateur. After 43 years in radio, I do not mind confessing that I am still an amateur. Despite many great achievements in the science of radio and electronics, what we know today is far less than what we have still to learn.

The best writing is rewriting.

Since the beginning of time, children have not liked to study. They would much rather play, and if you have their interests at heart, you will let them learn while they play.

The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.

You know that I don't believe that anyone has ever taught anything to anyone. I question that efficacy of teaching. The only thing that I know is that anyone who wants to learn will learn. And maybe a teacher is a facilitator, a person who puts things down and shows people how exciting and wonderful it is and asks them to eat.

The purpose of adult education is to help them to learn, not to teach them all you know and thus stop them from learning.

We worship education but hate learning. We worship success but hate the successful. We worship fame but hate the famous.

Artists are the antennae of the race, but the bullet-headed many will never learn to trust the great artists.

Of all that writ, he was the wisest bard, who spoke this mighty truth- He that knew all that ever learning writ, Knew only this-that he knew nothing yet.

Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.

Questions are the important thing, answers are less important. Learning to ask a good question is the heart of intelligence. Learning the answer-well, answers are for students. Questions are for thinkers.

Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

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