#learnin

I've always loved music, but I never really played anything. After 'Walk the Line' and learning to play guitar, and having that sense of performing, I think that certainly opened the door for me, for music. ↗

— Joaquin Phoenix

#always #anything #certainly #door #guitar

Philosophy is a kind of journey, ever learning yet never arriving at the ideal perfection of truth. ↗

— Albert Pike

#ever #ideal #journey #kind #learning

Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune. ↗

— Plato

#all things #bad #cleverness #evil #excessive

Architecture is a science arising out of many other sciences, and adorned with much and varied learning; by the help of which a judgment is formed of those works which are the result of other arts. ↗

— Marcus V. Pollio

#architecture #arising #arts #formed #help

Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily. ↗

— Thomas Szasz

#aware #before #children #conscious #easily

What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support? ↗

— James Madison

#leaning #learning #liberty #more #mutual

I'm getting to a point where everything is becoming streamlined in my life. I'm learning how to stand onstage for two hours and play in front of thousands of people as if I am completely in the moment every moment. ↗

— John Mayer

#becoming #completely #every #everything #front

That first year at Universal was a big blur and, naturally, I thought they were wasting me. I didn't realize at the time that I was learning my craft and acting more easily in front of the camera. ↗

— Kent McCord

#big #blur #camera #craft #easily

It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age. ↗

— Margaret Mead

#arbitrary #childhood #cruelly #false #into

I think Lenat is headed in the right direction, but someone needs to include a knowledge base about learning. ↗

— Marvin Minsky

#base #direction #headed #i #i think