Quotes About Learning New Information

#1. Reading builds a scaffold of vocabulary and word associations that facilitate learning new information.

It improves your brain processing speed for text because you have more rapid comprehension.

Peter Rogers

#2. Personal growth is not a matter of learning new information but of unlearning old limits.

Alan Cohen

#3. Monti is a person who is an expert on both the political and professional level.

Mark Rutte

#4. Ji Wenzi always thought thrice before acting. Hearing this the Master said, "Twice is enough.

Confucius

#5. True learning only occurs when you assimilate and apply the new information - when there is a change in your behavior.

Jack Canfield

#6. History has shown us that it's not religion that's the problem, but any system of thought that insists that one group of people are inviolably in the right, whereas the others are in the wrong and must somehow be punished.

Rod Liddle

#7. Groups that are too much alike find it harder to keep learning, because each member is bringing less and less new information to the table. Homogeneous groups are great at doing what they do well, but they become progressively less able to investigate alternatives.

James Surowiecki

#8. Exposure to a mixed body of evidence made both sides even more convinced of the fundamental soundness of their original beliefs.' Confirmation bias is profoundly human and it is appalling. When new information leads to an increase in ignorance, it is the opposite of learning, the death of wisdom.

Will Storr

#9. We learn best with focused attention. As we focus on what we're learning, the brain maps that information on what we already know making new neural connections

Daniel Goleman

#10. Economic progress and better education have directly resulted in the birth of a class of voters who are better informed, very demanding and highly critical.

Najib Razak

#11. Sharing knowledge is not about giving people something, or getting something from them. That is only valid for information sharing. Sharing knowledge occurs when people are genuinely interested in helping one another develop new capacities for action; it is about creating learning processes.

Peter Senge

#12. People cannot be expected to learn one expertise and just apply it routinely in a job. Your expertise is in steadily renewing your knowledge base and extending it to new areas. That lifelong cycle of learning really is the foundation of the new information organization and economy.

George Gilder

#13. Life is a dream even in its most painful moments, it's a dream that we can dance to.

Carly Simon

#14. When you abbreviate your learning, you abbreviate your growth. Expand your knowledge and you keep growing taller and fatter than your limitations.

Israelmore Ayivor

#15. Nothing is more difficult than knowing what you really think.

Ben Okri

#16. The act of learning itself is no longer seen as simply a matter of information transfer, but rather as a process of dynamic participation, in which students cultivate new ways of thinking and doing, through active discovery and discussion, experimentation and reflection.

Susan C. Aldridge

#17. My attention is constantly being caught! I'm constantly learning, constantly becoming fascinated by new things - I'm lucky that I read incredibly quickly and absorb a lot of information easily, because otherwise I don't think I'd ever get my head out of a book!

Elise Andrew

#18. Sometimes the curiosity can kill the soul but leave the pain.

Shinedown

#19. I think it's very important to distinguish between objectivity - which tends to be open, flexible, skeptical of its own certainty and open to new information - and objectivism - which thinks, "No, we know it all, we've got it, so real thinking and learning can come to an end."

W. J. T. Mitchell

#20. Ignorance must be prosecuted when arrested. The only way for its arrest is by information and the only way for prosecution is through reading and learning of new things.

Israelmore Ayivor

#21. The fact is, people who base their self-worth on being right about everything prevent themselves from learning from their mistakes. They lack the ability to take on new perspectives and empathize with others. They close themselves off to new and important information. It's

Mark Manson

#22. A mind without kindness is like a river without water.

Debasish Mridha

#23. My brother never had me to dinner in his life.

Burt Lancaster

#24. I didn't freak out. I immediately reached around my back, pulling the gun out of my waistband leveling it at the man's face. Well, maybe that was me freaking out. Who knows?

Natalie Carlisle

#25. Getting bogged down in old stories stops the flow of learning by censoring our perceptions, making us functionally deaf and blind to new information. Once the replay button gets pushed, we no longer form new ideas or conclusions - the old ones are so cozy.

Martha Beck

#26. I don't take the movies seriously, and anyone who does is in for a headache.

Bette Davis

#27. Contrary to widespread faith in "communication" and "knowledge transfer," information has a social life, and unless new insights are embedded in the social system they evaporate.

Richard Pascale

#28. Profound changes to how children access vast information is yielding new forms of peer-to-peer and individual-guided learning.

Sugata Mitra