Demetri Martin Quotes

Everything we know, we learned from someone else!

Knowledge is also borrowed. It is not a flower that grows in your soul, it is something plastic that has been imposed upon you.

There seems to be hardly any one among my acquaintance from whom I have not learned.

Every person that you meet knows something you don't; learn from them.

Generally speaking, there are two kinds of learning: experience, which is gained from your own mistakes, and wisdom, which is learned from the mistakes of others.

It is a true proverb, that if you live with a lame man, you will learn to limp.

In order always to learn something from others (which is the finest school there can be), I observe in my travels this practice: I always steer those with whom I talk back to the things they know best.

People learn twenty-five percent from their teacher, twenty-five percent from listening to themselves, twenty-five percent from their friends, and twenty-five percent from time.

Learned behaviors have replaced the biologically given ones.

The oppressed want at any cost to resemble the oppressors." "They call themselves ignorant and say the 'professor' is the one who has knowledge and to whom they should listen." "Almost never do they realize that they, too, 'know things' they have learned in their relations with the world.

You can learn from anyone if you know the right questions.

Cultivate those who can teach you.

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books.

It was never shameful to learn from any teacher things that are useful to know.

We do learn and develop when we are exposed to those who are greater than we are. Perhaps this is the chief way we mature.

I'm always learning new ways to improve my game from both players older and younger than me.

We get schooled by the people around us, and it stays inside us deep.

I tend to think that knowledge is preceded by power instead of the other way around.

We learn by observation, imitation and repetition.

What we have learned from other becomes our own reflection.

There is a wealth of knowledge to be understood from others' work, don't get me wrong, and when I do stumble upon others' work, it's not lost on me.

Still, instead of trusting what their own minds tell them, men have as a rule a weakness for trusting others who pretend to supernatural sources of knowledge.

There is not human being from whom we cannot learn something if we are interested enough to dig deep.

All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.

I believe in the discipline of mastering the best that other people have ever figured out. I don't believe in just sitting down and trying to dream it all up yourself. Nobody's that smart.