Learning Quotes

You cannot open a book without learning something.

Every truth has four corners: as a teacher I give you one corner, and it is for you to find the other three.

Roads were made for journeys, not destinations.

Learn as if you were not reaching your goal and as though you were scared of missing it.

Study the past if you would define the future.

We want Facebook to be one of the best places people can go to learn how to build stuff.

In terms of doing work and in terms of learning and evolving as a person, you just grow more when you get more people's perspectives... I really try and live the mission of the company and... keep everything else in my life extremely simple.

Complacency is the enemy of study. We cannot really learn anything until we rid ourselves of complacency.

Now, there are two different attitudes towards learning from others. One is the dogmatic attitude of transplanting everything, whether or not it is suited to our conditions. This is no good. The other attitude is to use our heads and learn those things that suit our conditions, that is, to absorb whatever experience is useful to us. That is the attitude we should adopt.

Stalin made mistakes. He made mistakes towards us, for example, in 1927. He made mistakes towards the Yugoslavs too. One cannot advance without mistakes. It is necessary to make mistakes. The party cannot be educated without learning from mistakes. This has great significance.

The doer alone learneth.

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.

When one has finished building one's house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way - before one began.

A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions-as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.

Everyone being allowed to learn to read ruins in the long run not only writing but also thinking.

The fervor about having the truth counts very little today in relation to that other fervor, more gentle and silent, to be sure, for seeking the truth, a search that does not tire of learning afresh and testing anew.

There is no marvel in a woman learning to speak, but there would be in teaching her to hold her tongue.

Teachers, who are really good create that environment where you can be very satisfied by the process of learning. If you do something and you find it a very satisfying experience then you want to do more of it. The great teachers somehow convey in their very attitude and their words and their actions and everything they do that this is an important thing you're learning. You end up wanting to do more of it and more of it and more of it. That's a real talent some people have to convey the importance of that and to reflect it back to the students.

The student who uses home made apparatus, which is always going wrong, often learns more than one who has the use of carefully adjusted instruments, to which he is apt to trust and which he dares not take to pieces.

Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.