Best 3855 quotes in «learning quotes» category

It is the greatest of all mistakes to begin life with the expectation that it is going to be easy, or with the wish to have it so.

It is the object of learning, not only to satisfy the curiosity and perfect the spirits of ordinary men, but also to advance civilization.

It is the studying that you do after your school days that really counts. Otherwise, you know only that which everyone else knows.

It is the prowess of scholars that meetings bring delight and departures leave memories.

It is the responsibility of every adult... to make sure that children hear what we have learned from the lessons of life and to hear over and over that we love them and that they are not alone.

It is the true nature of mankind to learn from mistakes, not from example.

It is those who have the distinction of privilege who set the standards of disgust with failure.

It is today that we create the world of the future.

It is true that the mental aspect of kung-fu is the desired end; however, to achieve this end, technical skill must come first.

It is true that I should have been surprised in the past to learn that Professor Hardy had joined the Oxford Group. But one could not say the adverse chance was 1:10. Mathematics is a dangerous profession; an appreciable proportion of us go mad, and then this particular event would be quite likely.

It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary... to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.

It is well, when the wise and the learned discover new truths; but how much better to diffuse the truths already discovered, amongst the multitude! Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power; and while a philosopher is discovering one new truth, millions may be propagated amongst the people. Diffusion, then, rather than discovery, is the duty of our government.

It is well-known that chess and music go well together, and many are those who have achieved unusual proficiency in both.

It is wise to learn; it is God-like to create.

It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is. Physics concerns what we say about nature.

It may be said "In research, if you know what you are doing, then you shouldn't be doing it." In a sense, if the answer turns out to be exactly what you expected, then you have learned nothing new, although you may have had your confidence increased somewhat.

It must be remembered that the purpose of education is not to fill the minds of students with facts... it is to teach them to think.

It occurs to her that she should record this flash of insight in her journal - otherwise she is sure to forget, for she is someone who is always learning and forgetting and obliged to learn again.

It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.

I trimmed my lamp, consumed the midnight oil.

It's a good thing to learn early that other people's opinions do not matter, unless they happen to be true.

It's becoming clear that in a sense the cosmos provides the only laboratory where sufficiently extreme conditions are ever achieved to test new ideas on particle physics. The energies in the Big Bang were far higher than we can ever achieve on Earth. So by looking at evidence for the Big Bang, and by studying things like neutron stars, we are in effect learning something about fundamental physics.

It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.

It seems that we learn lessons when we least expect them but always when we need them the most, and, the true gift in these lessons always lies in the learning process itself.

It's important to get in the habit of growing as a human being, developing and refining leadership and management skills and entrepreneurial instincts and changing to accommodate the times.

It's exciting to see how fast your kids learn and grow. I'm not too worried about them, particularly the ones who like to break rules and don't follow instructions; those are the ones that will do just fine because they know what's important to them.

It's important to be innovative when times are prosperous. It's essential to be innovative when they are not.

It's not by amusing oneself that one learns.

It's not just about looking and copying, it's about feeling too

It's not just about facts, information and technical know how... Gardens are about time, observation and intuition.

It’s not information overload. It’s filter failure.

It's not so much what you have to learn if you accept weird theories, it's what you have to UNlearn.

It's not up to us what we learn, but merely whether we learn through joy or through pain.

It's objective evaluations that give our hardwiring principles teeth and drive the organization toward results that last.

It's okay to learn from every experience, and it's okay to make mistakes.

It's OK to get angry with God. He can take it.

It's [programming] the only job I can think of where I get to be both an engineer and an artist. There's an incredible, rigorous, technical element to it, which I like because you have to do very precise thinking. On the other hand, it has a wildly creative side where the boundaries of imagination are the only real limitation.

It's time for the US to widen its circle of learning, not to circle its wagons against hostile ideas in education reform.

It takes the whole of life to learn how to live, and - even more surprising - it takes the whole of life to learn how to die.

It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.

It takes more time and effort and delicacy to learn the silence of a people than to learn its sounds. Some people have a special gift for this. Perhaps this explains why some missionaries, notwithstanding their efforts, never come to speak properly, to communicate delicately through silences. Although they "speak with the accent of natives" they remain forever thousands of miles away. The learning of the grammar of silence is an art much more difficult to learn than the grammar of sounds.

It takes a great deal of living to get a little deal of learning.

It was at home I learned the little I know. Schools always appeared to me like a prison, and never could I make up my mind to stay there, not even for four hours a day, when the sunshine was inviting, the sea smooth, and when it was joy to run about the cliffs in the free air, or to paddle in the water.

It would be idle, and presumptuous, to wish to imitate the achievements of a Morphy or an Alekhine; but their methods and their manner of expressing themselves are within the reach of all.

It was never factually true that young people learn to read or do arithmetic primarily by being taught these things. These things are learned, but not really taught at all. Over-teaching interferes with learning, although the few who survive it may well come to imagine it was by an act of teaching.

I've learned so many things and a lot of things I've learned the hard way. I look at failure as education in that respect I'm very well educated.

I've always said, the key organ here isn't the brain, it's the stomach. When things start to decline - there are bad headlines in the papers and on television - will you have the stomach for the market volatility and the broad-based pessimism that tends to come with it?

I've concluded that genius is as common as dirt. We suppress genius because we haven't yet figured out how to manage a population of educated men and women. The solution, I think, is simple and glorious. Let them manage themselves.

I've learned it's always better to have a small percentage of a big success, than a hundred percent of nothing.

I've learned so much from my mistakes... I'm thinking of making some more.