Learning famous quotes

If nobody said anything unless he knew what he was talking about, a ghastly hush would descend upon the earth.
-- A. P. Herbert

#Life #Learning #Science

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

#Learning #Thinking #Years

Collect as precious pearls the words of the wise and virtuous.
-- Abdelkader El Djezairi

#Wise #Learning #Growth

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
-- Abigail Adams

#Education #Learning #School

True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.
-- Abigail Van Buren

#Funny #Education #Learning

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
-- Abraham Lincoln

#Inspirational #Failure #Learning

You will either step forward into growth or you will step back into safety.
-- Abraham Maslow

#Business #Learning #Safety

Fear of knowing is very deeply a fear of doing.
-- Abraham Maslow

#Teaching #Learning #Knowing

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

#Learning #Would Be #Answers

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

#Education #Children #Learning

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

#Learning #Knowledge #Charming

Everybody is now so busy teaching that nobody has any time to learn.
-- Agnes Repplier

#Teaching #Learning #Busy

Everyone makes mistakes. The wise are not people who never make mistakes, but those who forgive themselves and learn from their mistakes.
-- Ajahn Brahm

#Wise #Mistake #Learning

Learning is a plant that grows in all climes.
-- Akbar

#Learning #Plant #Grows

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

#Children #Growing Up #Learning

If you desire ease, forsake learning.
-- Akkineni Nagarjuna

#Learning #Desire #Ease

Learning (Shakespeare's plays) ...in school was a bit of a bore.
-- Al Pacino

#Education #Learning #School

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 Stewart

#Girl #Song #Learning

A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
-- Alan Perlis

#Learning #Thinking #Knowing

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

#Fun #Learning #Self

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 Perlis

#Fun #Learning #Successful

Any noun can be verbed.
-- Alan Perlis

#Learning #Nouns #Programming

To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
-- Alan Perlis

#Learning #Machines #Program

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 Perlis

#Writing #Learning #Thinking

A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
-- Alan Perlis

#Learning #Thinking #Language

Optimization hinders evolution.
-- Alan Perlis

#Learning #Evolution #Programming

A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.
-- Alan Watts

#Education #Learning #Buddhism

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
-- Albert Einstein

#Inspirational #Education #Learning

Any fool can know. The point is to understand.
-- Albert Einstein

#Wisdom #Learning #Knowledge

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

#Learning #Firsts #Problem

The more I learn, the more I realize I don't know.
-- Albert Einstein

#Learning #Realizing

All that's different about me is that I still ask the questions most people stopped asking at age five.
-- Albert Einstein

#Education #Learning #People

The mind is like the stomach. It not how much you put into it, but how much it digests.
-- Albert J. Nock

#Inspirational #Learning #Parenting

Example is leadership.
-- Albert Schweitzer

#Leadership #Learning #Growth

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.
-- Albert Schweitzer

#Responsibility #Learning #Exercise

Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

#Learning #Thinking #Discovery

We must contemplate some extremely unpleasant possibilities, just because we want to avoid them and achieve something better. Nobody, however, likes to think about anything unpleasant, even to avoid it. And so the crucial problem of thermonuclear war is frequently dispatched with the label 'War is unthinkable' -- which, translated freely, means we don't want to think about it.
-- Albert Wohlstetter

#War #Learning #Mean

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
-- Aldous Huxley

#Learning #Health #Men

The inconveniences and horrors of the pox are perfectly well known to every one; but still the disease flourishes and spreads. Several million people were killed in a recent war and half the world ruined; but we all busily go on in courses that make another event of the same sort inevitable. Experientia docet? Experientia doesn't.
-- Aldous Huxley

#War #Learning #People

If one is not oneself a sage or saint, the best thing one can do is to study the words of those who were.
-- Aldous Huxley

#Learning #Saint #Sage

Drawing general conclusions about your main weaknesses can provide a great stimulus to further growth.
-- Alexander Kotov

#Learning #Drawing #Growth

Anyone who wishes to learn how to play chess well must make himself or herself thoroughly conversant with the play in positions where the players have castled on opposite sides.
-- Alexander Kotov

#Learning #Player #Opposites

The main thing that develops positional judgement, that perfects it and makes it many-sided, is detailed analytical work, sensible tournament practice, a self-critical attitude to your games and a rooting out of all the defects in your play.
-- Alexander Kotov

#Attitude #Learning #Self

... My achievements in the field of chess are the result of immense hard work in studying theory ...
-- Alexander Kotov

#Hard Work #Learning #Achievement

Experience and the constant analysis of the most varied positions builds up a store of knowledge in a player's mind enabling him often at a glance to assess this or that position.
-- Alexander Kotov

#Learning #Player #Mind

I soon realized that it is not enough for a master simply to analyse variations scrupulously just like an accountant. He must learn to work out which particular moves he should consider and then examine just as many variations as necessary - no more and no less.
-- Alexander Kotov

#Moving #Learning #Work Out

A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
-- Alexander Pope

#Education #Spring #Learning

A little learning is a dangerous thing.
-- Alexander Pope

#Education #Learning #Knowledge

Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous.
-- Alexander Pope

#Powerful #Learning #Science

Children learn how to make good decisions by making decisions, not by following directions.
-- Alfie Kohn

#Children #Learning #Decision

The overwhelming number of teachers ...are unable to name or describe a theory of learning that underlies what they do.
-- Alfie Kohn

#Teacher #Teaching #Learning

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.
-- Alfred Adler

#Learning #Character #Men

Computer Science is a science of abstraction -creating the right model for a problem and devising the appropriate mechanizable techniques to solve it.
-- Alfred Aho

#Learning #Creating #Technique

It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.
-- Alfred North Whitehead

#Learning #Science #Being Different

By relieving the brain of all unnecessary work, a good notation sets it free to concentrate on more advanced problems, and in effect increases the mental power of the race.
-- Alfred North Whitehead

#Learning #Race #Brain

Learning preserves the errors of the past as well as its wisdom.
-- Alfred North Whitehead

#Learning #Past #Errors

We don't yet know, above all, what the world might be like if children were to grow up without being subjected to humiliation, if parents would respect them and take them seriously as people.
-- Alice Miller

#Children #Growing Up #Learning

Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn.
-- Alice Miller

#Education #Children #Learning

A creative idea will be defined simply as one that is both novel and useful or influential in a particular social setting.
-- Alice Weaver Flaherty

#Learning #Ideas #Creative

Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it or seriously critical of it.
-- Allan Bloom

#Learning #Cynical #Political

Our heads are round so thought can change direction
-- Allen Ginsberg

#Learning #Science

I'm going from doing all of the work to having to delegate the work - which is almost harder for me than doing the work myself. I'm a lousy delegator, but I'm learning.
-- Alton Brown

#Learning #Doing Me #Harder

All mankind is now learning that these nuclear weapons can only serve to destroy, never become beneficial.
-- Alva Myrdal

#Learning #Nuclear #Weapons

Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back.” - Chinese proverb
-- Alvin Toffler

#Education #Learning #Chinese

In the year 2000 an illiterate person will not be someone who can't read or write, but someone who is not able to learn, unlearn and learn again.
-- Alvin Toffler

#Writing #Learning #Years

The value of a prototype is in the education it gives you, not in the code itself.
-- Amari Cooper

#Learning #Giving #Programming

When the words are fuzzy, the programmers reflexively retreat to the most precise method of articulation available: source code. Although there is nothing more precise than code, there is also nothing more permanent or resistant to change. So the situation frequently crops up where nomenclature confusion drives programmers to begin coding prematurely, and that code becomes the de facto design, regardless of its appropriateness or correctness.
-- Amari Cooper

#Learning #Confusion #Design

There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don't know.
-- Ambrose Bierce

#Learning #Science #Old Things

More important than talent, strength, or knowledge is the ability to laugh at yourself and enjoy the pursuit of your dreams.
-- Amy Grant

#Dream #Learning #Laughing

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.
-- Anatole France

#Education #Memories #Learning

The truth is that my chess development was nothing out of the ordinary, and it proceeded probably at a pace no faster than others.
-- Anatoly Karpov

#Learning #Ordinary #Pace

Cops and robbers resemble each other, so there's not a lot to learn in terms of learning the logistics of committing the crime or investigating the crime.
-- Andre Braugher

#Learning #Logistics #Cop

Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
-- Andre Gide

#Communication #Learning #Knowledge

Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.
-- Andre Maurois

#Freedom #Learning #Simple

There are a million things in music I know nothing about. I just want to narrow down that figure.
-- Andre Previn

#Learning #Want #Figures

Text is linear; it is black and white; it doesn't zoom around the page in 3-D; it isn't intelligent by itself; in fact, in terms of immediate reaction it is quite boring. I can't imagine a single preliterate was ever wowed at the first sight of text, and yet text has been the basis of arguably the most fundamental intellectual transformation of the human species. It and its subforms, such as algebra, have made science education for all a plausible goal.
-- Andrea diSessa

#Learning #Black And White #Intelligent

Men who want to support women in our struggle for freedom and justice should understand that it is not terrifically important to us that they learn to cry; it is important to us that they stop the crimes of violence against us.
-- Andrea Dworkin

#Inspiring #Struggle #Learning

The real technology -behind all our other technologies- is language. It actually creates the world our consciousness lives in.
-- Andrei Codrescu

#Real #Learning #Technology

If one foot is in a bucket of steam, and the other is in a bucket of ice, you are not, on average, comfortable.
-- Andy Hargreaves

#Leadership #Learning #Average

Pompous ***** knows how to put the moan in sanctimonious.
-- Andy Hargreaves

#Leadership #Learning #Ass

Change is easy to propose, hard to implement, and especially hard to sustain.
-- Andy Hargreaves

#Leadership #Learning #Easy

Sustainable leadership does no harm to and actively improves the surrounding environment.
-- Andy Hargreaves

#Leadership #Learning #Doe

We must use collegiality not to level people down but to bring together their strength and creativity.
-- Andy Hargreaves

#Leadership #Creativity #Learning

It is not the time to put school districts up for auction. Now is the time to galvanize them into action.
-- Andy Hargreaves

#Leadership #School #Learning

You cannot switch teachers on and off as if they were PowerPoint presentations.
-- Andy Hargreaves

#Leadership #Teacher #Learning

As we seek to eliminate individualism in teaching, we should not eradicate individuality with it.
-- Andy Hargreaves

#Leadership #Teaching #Learning

Teaching is not the oldest profession. But it is certainly among the loneliest.
-- Andy Hargreaves

#Leadership #Teaching #Learning

Schools often get the teachers they deserve!
-- Andy Hargreaves

#Leadership #Teacher #Learning

Deadwood did not kill itself!
-- Andy Hargreaves

#Leadership #Learning

Implementation of technological change must involve critics as well as advocates.
-- Andy Hargreaves

#Leadership #Learning #Critics

A first class system of early childhood education is the hallmark of a caring and civilized society.
-- Andy Hargreaves

#Leadership #Learning #Caring

Service to others should be one of the most basic purposes of family life and schooling.
-- Andy Hargreaves

#Leadership #Learning #Purpose

There is no morality without temptation; otherwise it is just lack of opportunity.
-- Andy Hargreaves

#Leadership #Learning #Opportunity

On being: Arrogance is not the prerogative of the gifted.
-- Andy Hargreaves

#Leadership #Learning #Arrogance

In collaborative cultures, failure and uncertainty are not protected but shared and discussed to gain support.
-- Andy Hargreaves

#Leadership #Learning #Support

We learn more from people who are different from us than ones who are the same.
-- Andy Hargreaves

#Leadership #Learning #People

A brainscan cannot interpret itself and neither can a data dashboard in education.
-- Andy Hargreaves

#Leadership #Learning #Data

Excellence is the asymptotic state that never quite reaches perfection.
-- Andy Hargreaves

#Leadership #Learning #Perfection

Trust processes as well as people.
-- Andy Hargreaves

#Leadership #Learning #People

Too many professional development initiatives are done to teachers - not for, with or by them.
-- Andy Hargreaves

#Leadership #Teacher #Learning