Learning Quotes
“I was not good in school. I could never read very fast or very well. I got tested for learning disabilities, for dyslexia. Then I got put on Ritalin and Dexedrine. I took those starting in the eighth grade. As soon as they pumped that drug into me, it would focus me right in.”
“I think Lenat is headed in the right direction, but someone needs to include a knowledge base about learning.”
-- Marvin Minsky
“Diligent as one must be in learning, one must be as diligent in forgetting otherwise the process is one of pedantry, not culture.”
-- Albert J. Nock
“While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.”
-- Leonardo da Vinci
“No man is the wiser for his learning it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon but wit and wisdom are born with a man.”
-- John Selden