Learning Quotes

I have lived my life backwards as compared to my peers. Everyone did incredibly stupid things as teenagers and pre-teens. I didn't. I was the one telling everybody that they were incredibly stupid. Now that they are all past that stage and we are all much older— I am the one doing incredibly stupid things. I have figured that I've earned that right, by now! You have to earn the right to be stupid.

~ C. Joybell C.

The path to wisdom is paved with humility.

~ Tim Fargo

We need people who push boundaries rather than retreat inside them.

~ Tim Fargo

If we spark a student's passion, we unleash a powerful force upon the world.

~ Tim Fargo

After one has read everything and thought everything, one still have everything to learn.

~ Marty Rubin

It was amusing to me to see how the detective's overbearing manner had changed suddenly to that of a child asking questions of its teacher.

~ Arthur Conan Doyle

The new naval treaty permits the United States to spend a billion dollars on warships—a sum greater than has been accumulated by all our endowed institutions of learning in their entire history. Unintelligence could go no further! ... [In Great Britain, the situation is similar.] ... Until the figures are reversed, ... nations deceive themselves as to what they care about most.

~ Abraham Flexner

I had no systematic way of learning but proceeded like a quilt maker, a patch of knowledge here a patch there but lovingly knitted. I would hungrily devour the intellectual scraps and leftovers of the learned.

~ Ishmael Reed

ARTIFICIALLY-INDUCED INTELLIGENCE DETERIORATES AT A RATE OF TIME DIRECTLY PROPORTIONAL TO THE QUANTITY OF THE INCREASE.

~ Daniel Keyes

Knowing higher truths ensure that we have a larger perspective where all other things fall in place or start making sense.

~ Thomas Vazhakunnathu

Expectation levels set can be directly correlated to the quality of the training provided.

~ Mark W. Boyer

You can learn more in half an hour's direct contact with a source of knowledge (no matter the apparent reason for the contact or the subject of the transaction) than you can in years of formal effort.

~ Idries Shah

If you are not learning, you are not living.

~ Kevin James Breaux

Today I am so grateful that God knows my heart.Others may misunderstand my good intentions, judge my words or deeds, find fault,or blame what they truly do not understand.But God knows my heart. He knows I am learning, trying, endeavoring,to be all He created me to be.

~ Lori Nawyn

The text-book is rare that stimulates its reader to ask, Why is this so? Or, How does this connect with what has been read elsewhere?

~ J. Norman Collie

i don't think college is something you should tough out.

~ Kevin Roose

It is a Sufi contention that truth is not discovered or maintained by the mere repetition of teachings. It can only be kept understood by the perpetual experience of it. And it is in the experience of truth that the Sufis have always reposed their trust. Sufism is therefore not 'Do as I say and not as I do', or even 'Do as I do', but 'Experience it and you will know'.

~ Idries Shah

For he came to perceive that since people were his study, his teachers, the objects through which he could satisfy his persistent wonder about life itself, his own being among others, wherever he lived for the moment, there was his home.

~ Pearl S. Buck

The country inspector's face had shown his intense amazement at the rapid and masterful progress of Holmes' investigation. At first he had shown some disposition to assert his own position, but now he was overcome with admiration, and ready to follow without question wherever Holmes lead.

~ Arthur Conan Doyle

A wise person alway learn from every thing at any given morment.

~ Hamzat Haruna Ribah

I received comments on how extraordinary it was that I could keep up speaking for exactly 45 minutes. Indeed, in an age of soundbites lasting some seconds and of quick quotes in the news, all those minutes do seem like an eternity, easy to get lost in. Yet, wait a moment. Television is not the only place where speeches are given. Some hundred thousand teachers teach every day. They all speak 45 minutes, more times a day. They have been doing this for years. Every teacher knows exactly when the time will be over and that by then his speech will need to come to a natural end. It is this tension that determines the success of a lesson. It is a sign of the times that we forget these daily achievements in education. A million students daily attend several ‘live’ lectures and this in secondary education alone. These are high ratings!

~ Robbert Dijkgraaf

Simply put, the best teachers believe that learning involves both personal and intellectual development and that neither the ability to think nor the qualities of being a mature human are immutable. People can change, and those changes--not just the accumulation of information--represent true learning.

~ Ken Bain

Great experiences are built on a foundation of bad experiences.

~ Tim Fargo

Life without death simply isn't life, but death

~ Juliet Daniel

Those who study a wide variety of things realize that they don't know everything whereas specialists think they do.

~ V. R. Roadifer

The problem with all students, he said, is that they inevitably stop somewhere. They hear an idea and they hold on to it until it becomes dead; they want to flatter themselves that they know the truth. But true Zen never stops, never congeals into such truths. That is why everyone must constantly be pushed to the abyss, starting over and feeling their utter worthlessness as a student. Without suffering and doubts, the mind will come to rest on clichés and stay there, until the spirit dies as well. Not even enlightenment is enough. You must continually start over and challenge yourself.

~ Robert Greene

Forgive, I hope you won't be upset, but when I was a boy I used to look up and see you behind your desk, so near but far away, and, how can I say this, I used to think that you were Mrs. God, and that the library was a whole world, and that no matter what part of the world or what people or thing I wanted to see and read, you'd find and give it to me.

~ Ray Bradbury

Yes, we know you are a graduate with PhD. But when was the last time you chase after a book shop to buy and read a book at your own volition to obtain an information for your self-development? Knowledge doesn't chase people; people chase knowledge and information.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

We don't live through life only by our own experiences, we live through life with other people's experience as a reference too.

~ Nike Thaddeus

Books must follow sciences, and not sciences b

~ Francis Bacon

No policeman had ever arrested anyone for over-reading; but ignorance prosecutes those who under-read. You begin to stop growing on the day you stop learning, so why not keep learning and keep growing!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

It is now established by verifiable evidence that religion stultifies the brain and is the great obstacle in the path of intellectual progress.The more religious a person is, the more he is steeped in ignorance and superstition, the less is his sense of moral responsibility. The more intelligent a person, the less religious he is. There is an old saying that 'where there are three scientists, there are two atheists.'The countries whose governments are dominated by religion and religious institutions are the most backward. By the same token, the countries whose people are the most enlightened, and whose governments are based upon the principle of secularism—the separation of church and state—are the most progressive.And let me tell you: When man is intellectually free, the progress he will make is beyond calculation.

~ Joseph Lewis

Every television program must be a complete package in itself. No previous knowledge is to be required. There must not be even a hint that learning is hierarchical, that it is an edifice constructed on a foundation. The learner must be allowed to enter at any point without prejudice. This is why you shall never hear or see a television program begin with the caution that if the viewer has not seen the previous programs, this one will be meaningless. Television is a nongraded curriculum and excludes no viewer for any reason, at any time. In other words, in doing away with the idea of sequence and continuity in education, television undermines the idea that sequence and continuity have anything to do with thought itself.

~ Neil Postman

Maturity/experience: the beguiling texture of stones subjected to years of furious seas.

~ Alain De Botton

A good teacher does something more than teaching, he makes you start learning.

~ Raheel Farooq

Genuine wisdom has two major conditions: you cannot teach it, and you cannot make someone learn it.

~ Raheel Farooq

What does it matter? I shrugged. It's interesting and anything thats interesting is worth learning.

~ Amanda Lance

Accountability makes no sense when it undermines the larger goals of education.

~ Diane Ravitch

We really learn only from those books that we cannot judge. The author of a book that we were able to judge would have to learn from us.

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

[Cornell University will be] an asylum for Science—where truth shall be sought for truth's sake, not stretched or cut exactly to fit Revealed Religion.

~ Andrew Dickson White