“The prize is the pleasure of finding the thing out.”
— Richard Feynman Primary source“Experience keeps a dear school, yet fools will learn in no other.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source“The axiom that you learn more from your failures than your successes is trite but absolutely true.”
— Bill Gates Primary source“I think a life properly lived is just learn, learn, learn all the time.”
— Charlie Munger Primary source“Success is the result of making many mistakes and learning from experience.”
— Winston Churchill Primary source“Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.”
— Bill Gates Primary source“Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.”
— Ernest Hemingway Primary source“Just as iron rusts unless it is used, and water putrifies or, in cold, turns to ice, so our intellect spoils unless it is kept in use.”
— Leonardo da Vinci Primary source“Spend each day trying to be a little wiser than you were when you woke up. Discharge your duties faithfully and well. Step by step you get ahead, but not necessarily in fast spurts. But you build discipline by preparing for fast spurts. Slug it out one inch at a time, day by day, and at the end of the day—if you live long enough—like most people, you will get out of life what you deserve.”
— Charlie Munger Primary source“The only rational way of educating is to be an example—if one can’t help it, a warning example.”
— Albert Einstein Primary source“The thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.”
— Ayn Rand Primary source“I’m afraid that’s the way it [reality] is. If there are twenty factors and they interact some, you’ll have to learn to handle it—because that’s the way the world is. But you won’t find it that hard if you go at it Darwin-like, step by step with curious persistence. You’ll be amazed at how good you can get.”
— Charlie Munger Primary source“I don’t know what’s the matter with people: they don’t learn by understanding; they learn by some other way—by rote, or something. Their knowledge is so fragile!”
— Richard Feynman Primary source“I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.”
— Richard Feynman Primary source“In the development of our understanding of complex phenomena, the most powerful tool available to the human intellect is abstraction.”
— Tony Hoare Primary source“Finally, I said that I couldn’t see how anyone could he educated by this self-propagating system in which people pass exams, and teach others to pass exams, but nobody knows anything.”
— Richard Feynman Primary source“Genius without education is like silver in the mine.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source“Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.”
— Leonardo da Vinci Primary source“We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. This is our permanent state.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson Primary source“I would study, I would know, I would admire forever.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson Primary source“The life of man is a self-evolving circle, which, from a ring imperceptibly small, rushes on all sides outwards to new and larger circles, and would embrace at last the universal sphere.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson Primary source“How little we know of what there is to know. I wish that I were going to live a long time instead of going to die today because I have learned much about life in these four days; more, I think, than in all the other time. I’d like to be an old man and to really know. I wonder if you keep on learning or if there is only a certain amount each man can understand. I thought I knew about so many things that I know nothing of. I wish there was more time.”
— Ernest Hemingway Primary source“Learning never exhausts the mind.”
— Leonardo da Vinci Disputed“The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.”
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