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[Quote No.54555] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful." - Victor Hugo
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[Quote No.54590] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"How will you go about finding that thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you?" - Meno
pre-Socratic philosopher
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[Quote No.54606] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply." - Khalil Gibran
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[Quote No.54611] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge. [Never be skeptical of anything you experience, think, believe or know!]" - Elbert Hubbard
(1856-1915), American editor, publisher and writer.
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[Quote No.54655] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"If you own up to [and then learn from] your mistakes, you don't suffer as much [over the long-term]. But that's a tough lesson to learn." - Lee Iacocca
American Executive
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[Quote No.54664] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"There are three constants in life - change, choice and principles!" - Stephen Covey
(1932 - 2012) Author and consultant
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[Quote No.54694] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Once [we learn] we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our one duty is to furnish it well." - Peter Ustinov
From his autobiography 'Dear Me' (1977).
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[Quote No.54696] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"A man's mind is known by the company it keeps." - James Russell Lowell
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[Quote No.54699] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled." - Plutarch
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[Quote No.54700] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Untilled soil, however fertile it may be, will bear thistles and thorns; and so it is with man's mind." - St. Teresa of Avila
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[Quote No.54701] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"The mind is but a barren soil; a soil which is soon exhausted, and will produce no crop, or only one, unless it be continually fertilized and enriched with foreign matter." - Joshua Reynolds
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[Quote No.54723] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"[Be skeptical. Skepticism is helpful in the long-term:] Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it." - Buddha
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[Quote No.54729] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience [learning] and invest them in the future!" - Jim Rohn
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[Quote No.54737] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"When you have a sincere desire to grow and develop, you will appreciate the opportunities that arise for further growth and development [including criticism and difficulties]!" - Rabbi Zelig Pliskin
From his book, 'Gateway to Self Knowledge', pp.184-6.
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[Quote No.54761] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"[Mistakes, hardships and] Tears water our growth." - William Shakespeare
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[Quote No.54765] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"[In the brain are neurons.] Each neuron has three parts: the dendrites, the cell body, and the axon. The dendrites are treelike branches that receive input from other neurons. The dendrites lead into the cell body, which sustains the life of the cell and contains its DNA. Finally, the axon is a living cable of varying lengths (from microscopic ones in the brain to others that run down to the legs and can be three feet long). Axons are often compared to wires because they carry electrical impulses at very high speeds (from 2 to 200 miles per hour) toward the dendrites of neighboring neurons. A neuron can receive two kinds of signals: ones that excite it (excitatory signals) and ones that inhibit it (inhibitory signals). When a neuron receives enough excitatory signals, it will fire off its own signal. When it receives enough inhibitory signals, it becomes less likely to fire.
Axons don't quite touch the neighboring dendrites. They are separated by a microscopic space called a synapse. Once an electrical signal gets to the end of the axon, it triggers the release of a chemical messenger, called a neurotransmitter, into the synapse. The chemical messenger floats over to the dendrite of the adjacent neuron, exciting or inhibiting it. When we say that neurons 'rewire' themselves, we mean that alterations occur at the synapse, strengthening and increasing, or weakening and decreasing, the number of connections between the neurons.
One of the core laws of neuroplasticity is that neurons that fire together wire together, meaning that repeated mental experience leads to structural changes in the brain neurons that process that experience, making the synaptic connections between those neurons stronger. In practical terms, when a person learns something new, different groups of neurons get wired together. As a child learns the alphabet, the visual shape of the letter A is connected with the sound 'ay.' Each time the child looks at the letter and repeats the sound, the neurons involved 'fire together' at the same time, and then 'wire together'; the synaptic connections between them are strengthened. Whenever any activity that links neurons is repeated, those neurons fire faster, stronger, sharper signals together, and the circuit gets more efficient and better at helping to perform the skill.
The converse is also true. When a person stops performing an activity for an extended period, those connections are weakened, and over time many are lost. This is an example of a more general principle of plasticity: that it is a use-it-or-lose-it phenomenon. Thousands of experiments have now demonstrated this fact. Often the neurons that were involved in the skill will be taken over and used for other mental tasks that are now being performed more regularly. Sometimes one can manipulate the use-it-or-lose-it principle to undo brain connections that are not helpful, because neurons that fire apart wire apart. Suppose a person has formed a bad habit of eating whenever he is emotionally upset, associating the pleasure of food with the dulling of emotional pain; breaking the habit will require learning to disassociate the two. He might have to actively forbid himself from going to the kitchen when he is emotionally upset, until he finds a better way to handle his emotions. ...
" - Dr. Norman Doidge
'The Brain's Way of Healing: Remarkable Discoveries and Recoveries from the Frontiers of Neuroplasticity', 2015.
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[Quote No.54767] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"[Skepticism is important in the search for 'Truth'. Why? ...:] In science, confirmation bias is always the unseen enemy. Having a dog in the fight means you may bend the rules to favor it, whether deliberately or simply because we’re wired to ignore inconvenient truths. In fact, the entire scientific method can be seen as a series of attempts to drive out bias: [For example] The double-blind controlled trial exists because both patients and doctors tend to see what they want to see - improvement." - Maia Szalavitz
[https://medium.com/matter/the-boy-whose-brain-could-unlock-autism-70c3d64ff221 ]
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[Quote No.54821] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"[Freedom of thought, speech, expression and press versus censorship and propaganda:] Ignorant free speech often works against the speaker. That is one of several reasons why it must be given rein instead of suppressed! [Also of course my estimation of its ignorance could be wrong and without free speech how would I learn any better?]" - Anna Quindlen
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[Quote No.54824] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition, there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes." - George Soros
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[Quote No.54836] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"[Freedom of thought, speech, expression, press and censorship:] In a republican nation whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force [nor fraud], the art of reasoning becomes of first importance." - Thomas Jefferson
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[Quote No.54840] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"I've seen how you can't learn anything when you're trying to look like the smartest person in the room." - Barbara Kingsolver
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[Quote No.54849] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Accept the truth from whatever source it comes." - Maimonides
(1135 - 1204)
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[Quote No.54850] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Truth does not become more true by virtue of the fact that the entire world agrees with it, nor less so even if the whole world disagrees with it." - Maimonides
(1135 - 1204)
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[Quote No.54856] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"No man [or woman] should escape our universities without knowing how little he [or she really] knows." - J. Robert Oppenheimer
(1904 - 1967)
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[Quote No.54871] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much;
Wisdom is humble that he knows no more." - William Cowper
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[Quote No.54878] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"The book is the most efficient technological instrument for learning that has ever been devised by the human mind." - Northrop Frye
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[Quote No.54882] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"You never find yourself until you face the truth." - Pearl Bailey
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[Quote No.54888] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"[Poem: about libraries]
Here is where people,
One frequently finds,
Lower their voices
And raise their minds.
" - Richard Armour
(1906-1989), author.
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[Quote No.54890] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"[Skepticism:] What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof." - Christopher Hitchens
(1949-2011), author and journalist.
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[Quote No.54917] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Failure is the foundation of success, and the means by which it is achieved.
" - Lao-tzu
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[Quote No.54921] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"[The danger of prejudice rather than intelligent skepticism:] There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance - that principle is contempt [or belief] prior to investigation." - Herbert Spencer
(1820-1903), philosopher.
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[Quote No.54922] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"[The value and importance of skepticism, doubt and proof:] Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it." - Buddha
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[Quote No.54928] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"[Freedom of thought, speech, expression and press versus censorship and propaganda:] Think for yourselves, and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too." - Voltaire
French philosopher and historian
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[Quote No.54935] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Art stands on the shoulders of craft, which means that to get to the art you must master the craft. If you want to write, practice writing. Practice it for hours a day, not to come up with a story you can publish, but because you long to learn how to write well, because there is something that you alone can say. Write the story, learn from it, put it away, write another story!" - Ann Patchett
Novelist. Quote from her book, 'This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage'. [Refer http://www.brainpickings.org/2015/04/27/ann-patchett-on-writing/ ]
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[Quote No.54945] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Everything that happens to you is your teacher.
The secret is to learn to sit at the feet of your own life and be taught by it." - Polly B. Berends
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[Quote No.54949] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"[Skepticism:] There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots. What is it? Distrust." - Demosthenes
(384 B.C.-322 B.C.)
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[Quote No.54988] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"[The truly wise are humble:] ...he who knows most, knows best how little he knows.
" - Thomas Jefferson
(1743 - 1826)
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[Quote No.54990] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"The thing that doesn't fit [a theory] is the thing that is most interesting." - Richard Feynman
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[Quote No.54991] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"[Be skeptical of all 'knowledge':] Have no respect whatsoever for authority; forget who said it and instead look what he starts with, where he ends up, and ask yourself, 'Is it reasonable?'" - Richard Feynman
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[Quote No.54992] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not really there, but just to comprehend those things which are there." - Richard Feynman
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[Quote No.54993] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"[Be skeptical:] Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself. The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool.
...We absolutely must leave room for doubt or there is no progress and no learning. There is no learning without having to pose a question. And a question requires doubt. People search for certainty. But there is no certainty." - Richard Feynman
Famous scientist
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[Quote No.54995] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"It's a good thing to turn your mind upside down now and then, like an hour-glass, to let the particles run the other way [and see what new perspectives you get and things you learn]." - Christopher Morley
(1890 - 1957)
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[Quote No.54998] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"The key to the future of the world is finding the [empowering] optimistic stories and letting them be known." - Pete Seeger
(1919 - 2014)
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[Quote No.55005] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Statistics are like a Bikini bathing suit. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital." - Aaron Levenstein
(1911 - 1986)
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[Quote No.55009] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"To willful men, the injuries that they themselves procure must be their schoolmasters.
...Youthful rashness skips like a hare over the meshes of good counsel." - William Shakespeare
(1564 - 1616)
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[Quote No.55014] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"The scientist is not responsible for the laws of nature, but it is a scientist's job to find out how these laws operate. It is the scientist's [and other imaginative individual's] job to find ways in which these laws can serve the human will [needs and desires]." - J. Robert Oppenheimer
(1904-1967), American theoretical physicist and professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley.
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[Quote No.55015] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance." - Plato
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[Quote No.55023] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Curiosity is the thirst of the soul." - Samuel Johnson
in a 1751 essay
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[Quote No.55025] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"At a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity." - Eleanor Roosevelt
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[Quote No.55028] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Curiosity is one of those insatiable passions that grow by gratification." - Sarah Scott
written in 1762
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