Learning Quotes

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Learning a technique is not an end in itself, it merely indicates where you need to start.

Masaaki Hatsumi

That's how things were out here in the wild, she was learning. Dangerous or beautiful. Or both.

Scott Westerfeld

Such promises are only for the gulls that accept the ordinary. One who has touched excellence in his learning has no need of that kind of promise.

Trace Science, then, with Modesty thy guide,
First strip off all her equipage of Pride,
Deduct what is but Vanity or Dress,
Or Learning's Luxury or idleness,
Or tricks, to show the stretch of the human brain
Mere curious pleasure or ingenious pain.

The observer usually will see what his fears and hopes and learning teach him to see. But if he can escape these demands that hold up a mirror to himself, then perhaps some of the implications of the work may be felt. But whatever is seen of felt it should be remembered that for me these paintings had to be something else. It is the price one has to pay for clarity when one's means are honoured only as an instrument of seduction or assault.

Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth. They do not preach learning and precepts, they preach, undeterred by particulars, the ancient law of life.

I'm very happy that so many children are learning the piano because of me.

You make learning fun. Like a children's book or after school special. Tell me about your…um, Athenian women.

The final lesson of learning to be independent — widowhood... is the hardest lesson of all.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

To savages it would seem preposterous to seek out a place where nothing but learning was going on in order that one might learn.

Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow.

C. William Pollard

As long as they are well-intentioned, mistakes are not a matter for shame but for learning

Margaret Heffernan

That one gets used to everything –
One gets used to that.
The usual name for it is
A learning process.

Hans Magnus Enzensberger

The Age of Reptiles ended because it had gone on long enough and it was all a mistake in the first place. A better day was dawning at the close of the Mesozoic Era. There were some little warm-blooded animals around which had been stealing and eating the eggs of the Dinosaurs, and they were gradually learning to steal other things, too. Civilization was just around the corner.

A neural network is a massively parallel distributed processor that has a natural propensity for storing experiential knowledge and making it available for use. It resembles the brain in two respects:
1. Knowledge is acquired by the network through a learning process.
2. Interneuron connection strengths known as synaptic weights are used to store the knowledge.

Igor Aleksander

Science, especially evolutionary sciences, can only proceed from learning about theories of hypotheses that do not stand the test of time.

Jeffrey H. Schwartz

Learning, to be of much use, must have a tendency to spread itself among the common people.

Henry Ward Beecher

Overcoming attachment does not mean becoming cold and indifferent. On the contrary, it means learning to have relaxed control over our mind through understanding the real causes of happiness and fulfillment, and this enables us to enjoy life more and suffer less.

Kathleen McDonald

When students' language, culture and experience are ignored or excluded in classroom interactions, students are immediately starting from a disadvantage. Everything they have learned about life and the world up to this point is being dismissed as irrelevant to school learning; there are few points of connection to curriculum materials or instruction and so students are expected to learn in an experiential vacuum. Students' silence and nonparticipation under these conditions have frequently been interpreted as lack of academic ability or effort, and teachers' interactions with students have reflected a pattern of low expectations which become self-fulfilling.

The true self is always in motion like music, a river of life, changing, moving, failing, suffering, learning, shining. That is why you must freely and recklessly make new mistakes - in writing or in life - and do not fret about them but pass on and write more.

That wonderful and terribly frightening journey of self-discovery. That process of growth, of being an independent person, of learning who you are and what you want from life, is the real secret of life, happiness and beauty.

Diane von Fürstenberg

No amount of learning from books or of listening to the words of authority can be substituted for the spade-work of investigation.

Sir Richard Gregory, 1st Baronet

So many of the ideas on which our psychologists base their beliefs about human intelligence, memory, and learning are all wishful thinking.

Challenging the status quo takes commitment, courage, imagination, and, above all, dedication to learning.

Surely no one stops to think where the great world experiment was leading. Frankly, no one could know. We're only learning now. It would be a sorry day for this republic if we allowed our activities in seeking for peace in the Old World to blind us to the essentials of peace at home. We want a free America again. We want America free at home, and free in the world. We want to silence the outcry of nation against nation, in the fullness of understanding, and we wish to silence the cry of class against class, and stifle the party appeal to class, so that we may ensure tranquility in our own freedom. If I could choose but one, I had rather have industrial and social peace at home, than command the international peace of all the world.

Warren G. Harding