learning Quotes

Mediums change you by their very existence. They do this on fundamental levels because they force you to favour certain parts of your brain over others.

Everyone wants to share what he or she has learned with someone who really cares.

Never loan a book to someone if you expect to get it back. Loaning books is the same as giving them away.

If I don't learn something new every year, I go crazy.

I love working out how things are made, which is why I have so many models of towers.

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

When you're young, you look at television and think, there's a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that's not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want.

The duty of rhetoric is to deal with such matters as we deliberate upon without arts or systems to guide us, in the hearing of persons who cannot take in at a glance a complicated argument or follow a long chain of reasoning.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing.

In almost every area of human endeavor, the practice improves over time. That hasn't been the case for teaching.