learning quotes

Start a part-time business and make as many mistakes as you possibly can while you still have your daytime job.

Without tact you can learn nothing.

We go to school to learn to work hard for money. I write books and create products that teach people how to have money work hard for them.

I’m trying my best to keep up with all this new technology, and I surround myself with all these wonderful people that are in the know and kind of help me out with all that.

To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.

When you revolutionize education, you’re taking the very mechanism of how people be smarter and do new things, and you’re priming the pump for so many incredible things.

I went to a lovely school, and I got an incredible education. And I actually think that my education is what really sets me apart, ‚cause I’m very smart.

Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.

Yeah, I like to keep myself interested – I’ll kind of throw myself into some area that I don’t completely know or understand, that I’m not adept at, so I’m forced to swim in order to stay afloat. There’s a good feeling that comes from that.

Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They’re both important and schools are forgetting one of them.

To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

I like school and I like learning.

I think we’re doing a dreadful job of educating.

The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.

Unfortunately, the highly curious student is a small percentage of the kids.

I’ve always written songs the same way. You learn different tricks – you learn craft, you learn structure, all that – as you go.

On the RFactor model that comes with the ‚Pro-Sim,‘ everything is balanced and measured. If you go up on the rear ride height, for example, it changes the airflow and the downforce of the car. You learn by trying different things, which gives you a better idea when you’re on a race weekend.

Touch a scientist and you touch a child.

No man who worships education has got the best out of education… Without a gentle contempt for education no man’s education is complete.

The more extensive a man’s knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

I really learned to sing in church, I think, really with emotion.

We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.

I don’t look at a man who’s expert in one area as a specialist. I look at him as a rookie in ten other areas.

There are many things that I don’t understand.

It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.

Intelligent people should learn from their experiences. With people on the street, the bad experience has beaten them.

To discover and know has always been a deep tendency of our nature. Can we not recognize it already in caveman?

Mistakes can be corrected by those who pay attention to facts but dogmatism will not be corrected by those who are wedded to a vision.

We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.

Personally, I think the best motto for an educational establishment is: ‚Or Would You Rather Be a Mule?‘

See, people are watching you. Especially your children. They’re taking in every single thing you do. They are like video cameras with legs. And they are always in the record mode. They learn more from what you do than from what you say.

When you’re older you want to learn from other people.

The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.

Well, I was 29 years old when I came to the United States Senate, and I have learned a lot.

Before I look stupid and not know what a word means or how to pronounce it, I’ll stop the whole production: ‚Hey, real quick, guys. Define this word for me. Somebody.‘

It is a no-fail, incontrovertible reality: If you get, give. If you learn, teach. You can’t do anything with that except do it.

You don’t read in your own field. You read in that field when you’re young, so that you can learn.

You could imagine a language exactly like English except it doesn’t have connectives like ‚and‘ that allow you to make longer expressions. An infant learning truncated English would have no idea about this: They would just pick it up as they would standard English.

The problem isn’t that Johnny can’t read. The problem isn’t even that Johnny can’t think. The problem is that Johnny doesn’t know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.

We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.

If you don’t feel safe as a child, you can’t learn.

Friendship… is not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.

Here’s what I’ve learned about deal-breakers. If you have enough natural chemistry with someone, you overlook every single thing that you said would break the deal.

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

We’ve got to dumb America up again.

Too much of what is called ‚education‘ is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.

If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.

I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

We do not know where to look, or what to look for, when something is memorized. We do not know what it means, or what change there is in the nervous system, when a fact is learned. This is a very important problem which has not been solved at all.

Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.

Love is a really scary thing, and you never know what’s going to happen. It’s one of the most beautiful things in life, but it’s one of the most terrifying. It’s worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories.

I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.

In karting, you turn up and drive, look at the data and go home. But I like doing more, learning about the engines and how to make them go even better.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

You learn a lot in life but there are a lot of tools and resources in school that help you grow professionally and personally for whatever goal you may want to achieve.

As long as I’m learning something, I figure I’m OK – it’s a decent day.

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

That’s another hallmark of truth, is that it snaps things together. People write to me all the time and say it’s as if things were coming together in my mind. It’s like the Platonic idea that all learning was remembering. You have a nature, and when you feel that nature articulated, it’s it’s like the act of snapping the puzzle pieces together.

You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.