Quotes by Learning One cannot guess how a word functions. One has to look at its use and learn from that. But the difficulty is to remove the prejudice which stands in the way of doing this. It is not a stupid prejudice. Ludwig Wittgenstein prejudicelearningstupid I have witnessed boards that continued to waste money on doomed projects because no one was prepared to admit they were failures, take the blame and switch course. Smaller outfits are more willing to admit mistakes and dump bad ideas. Luke Johnson failurelearningmistake Don't ask what it means, but rather how it is used. Ludwig Wittgenstein learningusedmean The true order of learning should be first, what is necessary; second, what is useful, and third, what is ornamental. To reverse this arrangement is like beginning to build at the top of the edifice. Lydia Sigourney learningorderscience You aren't learning anything when you're talking. Lyndon B. Johnson learningtalking Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one. Ludwig Wittgenstein learningviewsknowledge Education rears disciples, imitators, and routinists, not pioneers of new ideas and creative geniuses. The schools are not nurseries of progress and improvement, but conservatories of tradition and unvarying modes of thought. Ludwig von Mises learningknowledgeschool If you should put a knife into a French girl's learning it would explode and blow away like an omelette soufflee. M. E. W. Sherwood learninggirlblow Before an individual can be saved, he must first learn that he cannot save himself. M. R. DeHaan individualitylearningreligious Goethe has made a remark upon the perfectability of the human mind, which is full of sagacity: It is always advancing, but in a spiral line. Madame de Stael progresslearningmind There is no one who cannot derive great help and great benefit from learning; but there are also only a few people who do not receive a great harm from the light and knowledge they have received by learning, unless they use their knowledge in a manner both fit and natural for them. Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable learninglightpeople He who uses trickery should at least make use of his judgment to learn that he can scarcely hide treacherous conduct for very long among clever men who are determined to find him out, although they may pretend to be deceived in order to disguise their knowledge of his deceitfulness. Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable learningclevermen Often the desire to appear competent impedes our ability to become competent, because we more anxious to display our knowledge than to learn what we do not know. Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable anxiouslearningdesire Mean-spirited mediocrities, especially those with a smattering of learning, are the most likely to be opinionated. Only strong minds know how to correct their opinions and abandon a bad position. Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable learningstrongmean My parents were comfortable with me exploring areas that they were not proficient in. Some parents just aren't comfortable with that. Mae Jemison areaslearningparent There are for man only two principles available for a mental grasp of reality, namely, those of teleology and causality. What cannot be brought under either of these categories is absolutely hidden to the human mind. An event not open to an interpretation by one of these two principles is for man inconceivable and mysterious. Change can be conceived as the outcome either of the operation of mechanistic causality or of purposeful behavior; for the human mind there is no third way available. Ludwig von Mises learningtruthknowledge I started by just sitting by the chessboard exploring things. I didn't even have books at first, and I just played by myself. I learnt a lot from that, and I feel that it is a big reason why I now have a good intuitive understanding of chess. Magnus Carlsen learningunderstandingbook You ain't learnin' nothin' when you're talkin'. Lyndon B. Johnson inspirational-presidentialpresidentiallearning In the beginning we must simplify the subject, thus unavoidably falsifying it, and later we must sophisticate away the falsely simple beginning. Maimonides programminglearningsimple And if we want to achieve our goal, then let us empower ourselves with the weapon of knowledge and let us shield ourselves with unity and togetherness. Malala Yousafzai learninggoalschool«5657585960616263646566»
