Showing posts with label quotes on learning. Show all posts
Showing posts with label quotes on learning. Show all posts

Monday, May 31, 2010

~Marvin Minsky

You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way.

~Marvin Minsky

You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way.

Lloyd Alexander

We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself. ~

Henry S. Haskins

The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn. ~

~Lesley Conger

The best of my education has come from the public library... my tuition fee is a bus fare and once in a while, five cents a day for an overdue book. You don't need to know very much to start with, if you know the way to the public library.

~Martin H. Fischer

The pupil can only educate himself. Teachers are the custodians of apparatus upon which he himself must turn and twist to acquire the excellencies that distinguish the better from the poorer of God's vessels.

~Confucius

Learning without thought is labor lost.

Robert Brault,

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

~Alvin Toffler

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.

~Dana Stewart Scott

Learn as much as you can while you are young, since life becomes too busy later.

~Bernard Keble Sandwell

I am what the librarians have made me with a little assistance from a professor of Greek and a few poets.

Thomas Szasz

Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily. ~

~Dudley Field Malone

I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me.

~H.G. Wells

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

Russell Hoban

If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world has wasted a great deal of time. ~

~Martin H. Fischer

It is not hard to learn more. What is hard is to unlearn when you discover yourself wrong.

~Henry Ford

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty.

~Martin H. Fischer

I find four great classes of students: The dumb who stay dumb. The dumb who become wise. The wise who go dumb. The wise who remain wise.

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. ~

~Vernon Howard

Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn and you will.