Quotes on Learning

Being incarcerated does not mean being devoid of the capacity to learn, grow, and think, and it's critical that prisons provide spaces where learning can be both cultivated and encouraged.

Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.

Profound changes to how children access vast information is yielding new forms of peer-to-peer and individual-guided learning.

Every opportunity I got, I took it as a learning experience.

The challenge as a parent is letting your kids fail in the right ways because that's where we do most of our learning.

Virtue comes by nature, learning, and practice, and thanks to virtue, all of the aforesaid may deserve approval.

If you desire ease, forsake learning.

You think it matters to the kids whether they're learning to play on a Steinway or a normal piano?

I did all of my learning on 'My Fair Lady.'

Supervised learning works so well when you have the right data set, but ultimately unsupervised learning is going to be a really important component in building really intelligent systems - if you look at how humans learn, it's almost entirely unsupervised.

Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do: when neither innateness nor learning has prepared you for the particular situation.

pity me that the heart is slow to learn what the swift mind beholds at every turn.

I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.

When I heard the learn’d astronomer; When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me; When I was shown the charts and the diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them; When I, sitting, heard the astronomer, where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room, How soon, unaccountable, I became tired and sick; Till rising and gliding out, I wander’d off by myself, In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time, Look’d up in perfect silence at the stars.

I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

When I disagree with a rational man, I let reality be our final arbiter; if I am right, he will learn; if I am wrong, I will; one of us will win, but both will profit.

To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.

If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.

Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.

Learning from experience is a faculty almost never practiced

Indeed, learning to write may be part of learning to read. For all I know, writing comes out of a superior devotion to reading.