Best 3855 quotes in «learning quotes» category

Find your passion, learn how to add value to it, and commit to a lifetime of learning.

First of all, the most important, that is to learn everything good that has survived from other times, and carefully to watch the bad - and throw it out.

For all the best teachers pride themselves on having a large number of pupils and think themselves worthy of a bigger audience.

For children in their most impressionable years, there is, in fantasy, the highest of stimulating and educational powers.

For pleasure you can read the games collections of Andersson and Chigorin, but for benefit you should study Tarrasch, Keres and Bronstein.

For the problem of decision-making in our complicated world is not how to get the problem simple enough so that we can all understand it; the problem is how to get our thinking about the problem as complex as humanly possible--and thus approach (we can never match) the complexity of the real world around us.

For there is a great difference in delivery of the mathematics , which are the most abstracted of knowledges, and policy , which is the most immersed. And howsoever contention hath been moved , touching a uniformity of method in multiformity of matter, yet we see how that opinion, besides the weakness of it, hath been of ill desert towards learning, as that which taketh the way to reduce learning to certain empty and barren generalities; being but the very husks and shells of sciences, all the kernel being forced out and expulsed with the torture and press of the method.

For the truth of the conclusions of physical science, observation is the supreme Court of Appeal.

For the sensory thinker, the world of the mind bears a direct physical resemblance to the world outside.

For what one has to learn to do, we learn by doing.

For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes, by virtue of their common womanhood, the property of all women.

For you to be successful, sacrifices must be made. It's better that they are made by others but failing that, you'll have to make them yourself.

Four things a man must learn to do If he would make his record true; To think without confusion clearly; To love his fellowmen sincerely; To act from honest motives purely; To trust in God and Heav'n securely.

Four years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating notion that now I could teach myself.

Friends are helpful not only because they will listen to us, but because they will laugh at us; Through them we learn a little objectivity, a little modesty, a little courtesy; We learn the rules of life and become better players of the game

From all these experiences the most important thing I have learned is that legibility and beauty stand close together and that type design, in its restraint, should be only felt but not perceived by the reader.

From a programmer's point of view, the user is a peripheral that types when you issue a read request.

Get out of bed, go to school, stick at school. Make it happen for yourself because those opportunities are waiting.

Genius learns from nature, its own nature. Talent learns from art.

Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.

Get growing. Back yourself and make mistakes. It's your mistakes and observations that are your greatest tutors.

Give, give, give - what is the point of having experience, knowledge or talent if I don't give it away? Of having stories if I don't tell them to others? Of having wealth if I don't share it? I don't intend to be cremated with any of it! It is in giving that I connect with others, with the world and with the divine.

Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and my own specified world to bring them up and I'll guarantee to take any one at random and train him to become any type of specialist I might select-doctor, lawyer, merchant-chief, and yes, even beggar man and thief, regardless of his talents, penchants, tendencies, abilities, vocations, and race of his ancestors.

Giving a poor person money keeps them poorer longer...often forever; give them knowledge instead.

Give me a fruitful error any time, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections. You can keep your sterile truth for yourself.

Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow (e.g., given a large enough beta-tester and co-developer base, almost every problem will be characterized quickly and the fix obvious to someone).

Giving the Linus Torvalds Award to the Free Software Foundation is a bit like giving the Han Solo Award to the Rebel Alliance.

God is in the details.

Good programmers know what's beautiful and bad ones don't.

Growth begins when we start to accept our own weakness

(Heinrich von) Kleist would not be a Prussian if his first thought would not have been orderlinessand he would not be a German if he had not placed all his hopes of developing this inner orderliness into education. Education is the secret of life for him as for every German: studying, learning a lot from books, sitting in lectures, keeping notebooks, listening intently to professors.

He is not a true man of science who does not bring some sympathy to his studies, and expect to learn something by behavior as well as by application. It is childish to rest in the discovery of mere coincidences, or of partial and extraneous laws. The study of geometry is a petty and idle exercise of the mind, if it is applied to no larger system than the starry one. Mathematics should be mixed not only with physics but with ethics; that is mixed mathematics. The fact which interests us most is the life of the naturalist. The purest science is still biographical.

He [John von Neumann] had the invaluable faculty of being able to take the most difficult problem and separate it into its components, whereupon everything looked brlliantly simple.

He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.

He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind, he has descended into the secrets of all minds.

He who has no inclination to learn more will be very apt to think that he knows enough.

He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.

He who uses trickery should at least make use of his judgment to learn that he can scarcely hide treacherous conduct for very long among clever men who are determined to find him out, although they may pretend to be deceived in order to disguise their knowledge of his deceitfulness.

High performance leaders capitalize on crises to galvanize the motivation and actions of people in the organization.

How can we help students to understand that the tragedy of life is not death; the tragedy is to die with commitments undefined and convictions undeclared and service unfulfilled?

How you imagine the world determines how you live in it.

Human reason can neither predict nor deliberately shape its own future. Its advances consist in finding out where it has been wrong.

I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.

I am exclusively occupied with the problem of gravitation and hope with the help of a local mathematician friend [Marcel Grossman] to overcome all the difficulties. One thing is certain, however, that never in life have I been quite so tormented. A great respect for mathematics has been instilled within me, the subtler aspects of which, in my stupidity, I regarded until now as pure luxury.

I am learning every day to allow the space between where I am and where I want to be to inspire me and not terrify me.

I am not teaching you anything. I just help you to explore yourself.

I am the most travelled of all my contemporaries; I have extended my field of enquiry wider than anybody else, I have seen more countries and climes, and have heard more speeches of learned men. No one has surpassed me in the composition of lines, according to demonstration, not even the Egyptian knotters of ropes, or geometers.

I am too old to fawn upon a nurse, Too far in years to be a pupil now.

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.

I believe babies are born as innovative personalities... But our social processes work to stamp out exploration and questioning.