Best 3855 quotes in «learning quotes» category

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.

Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.

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

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

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

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.

Growth begins when we start to accept our own weakness

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.

Habit is the nursery of errors.

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 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 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 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

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

He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.

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 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

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 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.