Best 3855 quotes in «learning quotes» category

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

Goethe has made a remark upon the perfectability of the human mind, which is full of sagacity: It is always advancing, but in a spiral line.

Good questions work on us, we don't work on them. They are not a project to be completed but a doorway opening onto greater depth of understanding, actions that will take us into being more fully alive.

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

Gratefully accepting the proffered honor, [to inscribe a new legal work to him] I give the leave, begging only that the inscription may be in modest terms, not representing me as a man of great learning, or a very extraordinary one in any respect.

Growth means change and change involves risk, stepping from the known to the unknown.

Have I a secret about playing the piano? It's a very simple one. I sit down on the piano stool and make myself comfortable - and I always make sure that the lid over the keyboard is open before I start to play.

Growth begins when we start to accept our own weakness

Habit is the nursery of errors.

(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 likely to learn who is not willing to be taught; for the learner has something to do, as well as the teacher.

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 had regrets, of course, but not so many that he would lose any sleep over them. Life surprised him now and then and he didn't much care for surprises, unless he was passing them out. But - what was to be done? You had to deal with the reality, he had learned that over the years, no matter how much you didn't like it

He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

He is educated who knows how to find out what he doesn't know.

He is fortunate who had been able to learn the causes of things. -Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas

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 meant that when people laugh together, they cease to be young and old, master and pupils, jailer and prisoners. They become a single group of human beings enjoying its existence.

He not only overflowed with learning, but stood in the slop.

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

He that has sense knows that learning is not knowledge, but rather the art of using it.

He, who learns and makes no use of his learning, is a beast of burden, with a load of books.

He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.

He who knows how to teach a child is not competent for the oversight of a child's education unless he also knows how to train a child.

He who knows much about others may be learned, but he who understands himself is more intelligent. He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.

He who studies without passion will never become anything more than a pedant.

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

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.

High performance leaders create an inspiring future by connecting with a classic and honorable past.

He who learns the rules of wisdom, without conforming to them in his life, is like a man who labored in his fields, but did not sow

Human behavior is subject to the same laws as any other natural phenomenon. Our customs, behaviors, and values are byproducts of our culture. No one is born with greed, prejudice, bigotry, patriotism and hatred; these are all learned behavior patterns. If the environment is unaltered, similar behavior will reoccur.

History does not move by leaps into unrelated novelty, but rather by the selective emphasis of aspects of its own immediate past.

How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?

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

Humans more easily remember or learn items when they are studied a few times over a long period of time (spaced presentation), rather than studied repeatedly in a short period of time.

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 fortunate for civilization, that Beethoven, Michelangelo, Galileo and Faraday were not required by law to attend schools where their total personalities would have been operated upon to make them learn acceptable ways of participating as members of "the group.

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

I am acutely conscious, from vast experience in opens, that guys around, say 2100 or more can definitely play chess and that one often has to work very hard to beat them.