Learning Quotes
“While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept apart from it. The danger is too great of thus learning to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery, and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit.”
“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