Quotes on Learning

Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

Throughout the ages there have always been those who have been willing to go beyond the norms and reach for that unknown and distant star.

The joy of learning is as indispensable in study as breathing is in running. Where it is lacking there are no real students, but only poor caricatures of apprentices who, at the end of their apprenticeship, will not even have a trade.

Dwell as near as possible to the channel in which your life flows.

You can finish school, and even make it easy - but you never finish your education, and it's seldom easy.

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.

The only way to learn a new programming language is by writing programs in it.

Whenever anything negative happens to you, there is a deep lesson concealed within it, although you may not see it at the time

The most important single factor influencing learning is what the learner already knows. Ascertain this and teach him accordingly.

Truth is a shining goddess, always veiled, always distant, never wholly approachable, but worthy of all the devotion of which the human spirit is capable.

The most important single aspect of software development is to be clear about what you are trying to build.

I think it is inevitable that people program poorly. Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.

I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.

It is in the character of growth that we should learn from both pleasant and unpleasant experiences.

One of the biggest lessons I've learned recently is that when you don't know what to do, you should do nothing until you figure out what to do because a lot of times you feel like you are pressed against the wall, and you've got to make a decision. You never have to do anything. Don't know what to do? Do nothing.

Through learning we re-create ourselves. Through learning we become able to do something we were never able to do.

A teacher's failure to create an intellectually reflective, engagement for learning is not simply malpractice but it is immoral particularly for students who cannot withdraw.

How many lessons there are and how little they are taken

I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.