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Learning Quotes by Steven Pinker
- There has to be innate circuitry that does the learning, that creates the culture, that acquires the culture, and that responds to socialization.
- We really are creatures of a violent world, biologically speaking - watching violence and learning about it is one of our cognitive drives.
- As a graduate student, I wrote a long paper connecting the dots between mathematical models of learning and language development in children. It was published…
- One of my favourite kinds of movie is the American picaresque, in which the characters make their way across the country, learning about life against…
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- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
- Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we… — Aristotle
- All men by nature desire knowledge. — Aristotle
- We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus;… — Karen Armstrong
- The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...' — Isaac Asimov
- The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any. — Fred Astaire
- Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. — Marcus Aurelius
- He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and… — Aeschylus