Quotes and Sayings About Learning
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If nobody said anything unless he knew what he was talking about, a ghastly hush would descend upon the earth.
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No matter how much we learn, there is always more knowledge to be gained. In this connection I am reminded of a short poem that has been in my mind over the years. It reads as follow: I used to think I knew I knew. But now I must confess. The more I know I know I know I know I know the less.
-- A. Ray Olpin -
Collect as precious pearls the words of the wise and virtuous.
-- Abdelkader El Djezairi -
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
-- Abigail Adams -
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True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.
-- Abigail Van Buren -
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
You will either step forward into growth or you will step back into safety.
-- Abraham MaslowSource : "Creating We : Change I-Thinking to We-Thinking and Build a Healthy, Thriving Organization". Book by Judith Glaser (p. 144), 2007.
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Fear of knowing is very deeply a fear of doing.
-- Abraham Maslow -
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Any approach to scientific inference which seeks to legitimize it and answer in reponse to complex uncertainty is, for me, a totalitarian parody of a would-be rational learning process.
-- Adrian Smith -
I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays and have things arranged for them that they seem so forlornly unable to produce their own ideas.
-- Agatha Christie -
Erudition, like a bloodhound, is a charming thing when held firmly in leash, but it is not so attractive when turned loose upon a defenseless and unerudite public.
-- Agnes Repplier -
Everybody is now so busy teaching that nobody has any time to learn.
-- Agnes Repplier -
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Everyone makes mistakes. The wise are not people who never make mistakes, but those who forgive themselves and learn from their mistakes.
-- Ajahn Brahm -
We all learn by imitating, as children, as students, as novices in the world of business. And then we grow up and learn to blend our innate abilities with the rules or principles we have learned.
-- Akio Morita -
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Learning (Shakespeare's plays) ...in school was a bit of a bore.
-- Al Pacino -
Of all the girls I ever knew some loved and some denied me And all the words I ever said have been no use to hide me And all the songs I ever sung each one of them untied me And all the girls I ever loved have left themselves inside me.
-- Al StewartSource : Song: Love Chronicles, Album: Love Chronicles
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A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
-- Alan PerlisSource : "Epigrams on Programming". ACM SIGPLAN Notices 17 (9), pp. 7-13, pu.inf.uni-tuebingen.de. September 1982.
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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach students to program. What fun is there to making plans, acquiring discipline, organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self critical.
-- Alan Perlis -
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I think that it's extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing. When it started out, it was an awful lot of fun. Of course, the paying customers got shafted every now and then, and after a while we began to take their complaints seriously. We began to feel as if we really were responsible for the successful, error-free perfect use of these machines. I don't think we are. I think we're responsible for stretching them, setting them off in new directions, and keeping fun in the house. I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
-- Alan PerlisSource : "The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs". Textbook by Gerald Jay Sussman and Hal Abelson, 2nd edition, 1996.
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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
-- Alan Perlis -
You think you KNOW when you learn, are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
-- Alan PerlisSource : "Epigrams on Programming". ACM SIGPLAN Notices 17 (9), pp. 7-13, pu.inf.uni-tuebingen.de. September 1982.
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A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
-- Alan Perlis -
A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.
-- Alan Watts -
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
-- Albert Einstein -
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Any fool can know. The point is to understand.
-- Albert Einstein -
If I had an hour to solve a problem and my life depended on the solution, I would spend the first 55 minutes determining the proper question to ask, for once I know the proper question, I could solve the problem in less than five minutes.
-- Albert Einstein