Learning Quotes

The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.

There's absolutely no reason you can't write in ANY genre if you are prepared to put the work in. Genre is craft. Craft can be learnt. So learn the conventions of the genre you want to write. Watch all the movies in that genre, big and small; read all the scripts. Go to events, learn about it. Read articles, blogs, soak it all up.

Human beings do not carry civilization in their genes. All that we do carry in our genes are certain capacities - the capacity to learn to walk upright, to use our brains, to speak, to relate to our fellow men, to construct and use tools, to explore the universe, and to express that exploration in religion, in art, in science, in philosophy.

I won't get left back, admitting I just don't know what I've never yet learned.

Learn, compare, collect the facts!

Learn the ABC of science before you try to ascend to its summit.

People learn from people they love. If your not talking about the individual relationship between the teacher and the student your not talking about that reality.

How else do you learn? You have to take it literally. You cant be lackadaisical about learning. You either learn it, or you don't learn it.

Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.

It is foolish to reject criticism. In order to improve, we need to know what is lacking.

Before you try to change something, increase your awareness of it.

Learning is not attained by chance. It must be sought for with ardor.

The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.

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.

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.

A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

It's not a question of learning much. On the contrary. It's a question of unlearning much.

Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you.

I've learned that you can't have everything and do everything at the same time.