Best 3855 quotes in «learning quotes» category

I was eventually persuaded of the need to design programming notations so as to maximize the number of errors which cannot be made, or if made, can be reliably detected at compile time.

I was determined to know beans.

I was fortunate to get a scholarship when I went to Lehigh University and Princeton. They were both wonderful schools. Somebody was kind enough to spend their money to educate people that they would never get to know. That's what I think philanthropy is about.

I will venture to say there is more learning and science within the circumference of ten miles from where we now sit [in London], than in all the rest of the kingdom.

I wish I knew as much about anything today as I knew about everything when I was twenty.

I wonder what especial sanctity attaches itself to fifteen minutes. It is always the maximum and the minimum of time which will enable us to acquire languages, etiquette, personality, oratory ... One gathers that twelve minutes a day would be hopelessly inadequate, and twenty minutes a wasteful and ridiculous excess.

I would by no means wish a daughter of mine to be a progeny of learning.

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

Just be who you are, calm and clear and bright. Automatically, as we shine who we are, asking ourselves every minute is this what I really want to do, doing it only when we answer yes, automatically that turns away those who have nothing to learn from who we are and attracts those who do, and from whom we have to learn, as well.

John von Neumann draws attention to what seemed to him a contrast. He remarked that for simple mechanisms, it is often easier to describe how they work than what they do, while for more complicated mechanisms, it is usually the other way around.

Keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for stars.

Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes and I am left the same. The more things change the more I am the same. I am what I started with, and when it is all over I will be all that is left of me.

Justice can seem to be so very demanding. But we must learn that when we put everything as right as we can put it right, it is Justice who invokes the Atonement, orders the adversary off our property, and posts the notice that his agents will make no more collections from us. Our debt will have been paid in full by the only perfect pure person who ever lived.

Keep children as much as possible by themselves ... keep them from company, good or bad. ... It will be generally found that the most virtuous and the most intellectual, are those who have been brought up with few companions. ... in fact his mental resources may be considered entirely unknown and unexplored, who cannot spend his best and happiest hours alone.

Knowledge increases in proportion to its use; that is, the more we teach the more we learn.

Knowledge about yourself binds, weighs, ties you down; there is no freedom to move, and you act and move within the limits of thatknowledge. Learning about yourself is never the same as accumulating knowledge about yourself. Learning is active present and knowledge is the past; if you are learning to accumulate, it ceases to be learning; knowledge is static, more can be added to it or taken away from it, but learning is active, nothing can be added or taken away from it for there is no accumulation at any time.

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

Knowledge of languages is the doorway to wisdom.

Knowledge emerges only through invention and re-invention, through the restless, impatient, continuing, hopeful inquiry human beings pursue in the world, with the world, and with each other.

Knowledge exists to be imparted.

Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; and love by love.

Knowledge must come through action. You can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.

Language is the dress of thought.

Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts which could not exist without it.

La rama que crece torcida nunca se endereza. A branch that grows crooked, or that is crooked from the beginning, will never straighten out. If you don't learn right from wrong early on, or if you don't learn manners when you are young, you will never learn them later.

Language is not a genetic gift, it is a social gift. Learning a new language is becoming a member of the club -the community of speakers of that language.

Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.

Knowledge is more a matter of learning than of the exercise of absolute judgment. Learning requires time, and in time the situation dealt with, as well as the learner, undergoes change.

Learn about a pine tree from a pine tree, and about a bamboo plant from a bamboo plant.

Laws for the liberal education of youth, especially of the lower class of people, are so extremely wise and useful, that, to a humane and generous mind, no expense for this purpose would be thought extravagant.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

Learning another language is like becoming another person.

Learning can be a bridge between doing and thinking. But then there is a danger that the person who uses learning as a bridge between doing and thinking may get stuck in learning and never get on to thinking.

Learning has been as great a Loser by being shut up in Colleges and Cells, and secluded from the World and good Company. By that Means, every Thing of what we call Belles Lettres became totally barbarous, being cultivated by Men without any Taste of Life or Manners, and without that Liberty and Facility of Thought and Expression, which can only be acquir'd by Conversation.

Learning how to learn is life's most important skill.

Learning is a lifetime process, but there comes a time when we must stop adding and start updating.

Learning is like a cow of desire. It, like her, yields in all seasons.

Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things.

Learning can be defined as the process of remembering what you are interested in.

Learning is better worth than houses or land.

Learning is experience understood in tranquility.

Learning is its own exceeding great reward.

Learning is more than absorbing facts, it is acquiring understanding.

Learning is the measurement of knowledge before and after.

Learning makes the wise wiser and the fool more foolish.

Learn that the present hour alone is man's.

Learn to wait; invariably either things will change or your heart will.

Learning preserves the errors of the past as well as its wisdom.

Learning results from what the student does and thinks, and only from what the student does and thinks. The teacher can advance learning only by influencing the student to learn.

Learning (Shakespeare's plays) ...in school was a bit of a bore.