Learning Quotes
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Learning to be silent is far more difficult and far more important than learning to recite prayers.
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople
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Newton was a genius, but not because of the superior computational power of his brain. Newton's genius was, on the contrary, his ability to simplify, idealize, and streamline the world so that it became, in some measure, tractable to the brains of perfectly ordinary men.
Gerald Weinberg
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You don't want your marriage to be sustainable. You want to be evolving, nurturing, learning.
Mitchell Joachim
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Well, that is one of the three foundations of learning: see much, study much, suffer much.
Lloyd Alexander
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I always look at myself as kind of a work in progress. I hope that's not always the case. But for me, every film is a learning experience.
Jonathan Levine
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Scientists have shown that pigs are capable of playing simple video games, learning from each other, and even learning names.
Jane Velez-Mitchell
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Texas Senator Ted Cruz said if elected president he would abolish the Department of Education. But not to worry. He promised to replace it with the less expensive Bureau of Book Learning.
Conan O'Brien
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I always enjoyed training, sweating and learning.
Alfredo Di Stefano
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Once you learn to discern the voice of Mother Culture humming in the background, telling her story over and over again to the people of your culture, you’ll never stop being conscious of it. Wherever you go for the rest of your life, you’ll be tempted to say to the people around you, “how can you listen to this stuff and not recognize it for what it is?
Daniel Quinn
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I'm learning how strong I am, how resilient I am. I'm learning my weaknesses.
Amy Purdy
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I do all the cooking in the family. I cook Italian, mostly, pastas and roasts, and bit by bit, I'm learning how to bake. I think cooking is a gift to other people.
John Lithgow
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Adults often assume that most learning is the result of teaching and that exploratory, spontaneous learning is unusual. But actually, spontaneous learning is more fundamental.
Alison Gopnik
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A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
William Shakespeare
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Getting bogged down in old stories stops the flow of learning by censoring our perceptions, making us functionally deaf and blind to new information. Once the replay button gets pushed, we no longer form new ideas or conclusions - the old ones are so cozy.
Martha Beck
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In the 1970s, for example, I found myself learning to relish the poetry of Andrew Marvell and Sir Thomas Wyatt, and getting a handle on poetry of plainer speech than I had dwelt with heretofore. Which led me into a new appreciation of middle William Butler Yeats, of the short three-beat line and forward-driving syntax, and that paid in, in turn, to a poem like Casualty in Field Work. The traffic, however, was usually the other way. My teaching was animated by what I was reading and being excited by as a poet.
Adam Kirsch
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Nerve cells communicate with one another at specialized points called synapses. And these synapses are plastic - they can be modified by learning.
Eric Kandel