Dan Brown Quotes

I'm a sponge for information.

How we learn has nothing to do with how brilliant we are.

The human being acquires a habit of learning. He learns to learn.

Through writing, Homo sapiens then became the first species to preserve learning, enabling knowledge to grow, ultimately at an exponential pace. Collective learning over time then became the source of technological improvement, a process that could move much faster than evolution.

What is education but a process by which a person begins to learn how to learn?

To begin with, our knowledge grows in spots. The spots may be large or small, but the knowledge ever grows all over... What you first gain from them is probably a small amount of new information, a few new definitions, or distinctions, or points of view. But while these special ideas are being added, the rest of your knowledge stands still, and only gradually will you 'line up' your previous opinions with the novelties I am trying to instil, and modify to some slight degree their mass.

The real excitement is collaborating with computer scientists and neuroscientists and starting to understand in detail how children learn so much so quickly.

By playing games you can artificially speed up your learning curve to develop the right kind of thought processes.

I think with every book you realize you are partway through and there is something really elementary that you should have researched.

Human beings are accustomed to think of intellect as the power of having and controlling ideas and of ability to learn as synonymous with ability to have ideas. But learning by having ideas is really one of the rare and isolated events in nature.

We'd be really screwed if we had to start our life over again as children with our brains right now, because I think we lose the plasticity and flexibility.

Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.

All students can learn.

Our problem, from the point of view of psychology and from the point of view of genetic epistemology, is to explain how the transition is made from a lower level of knowledge to a level that is judged to be higher.

The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts, but learning how to make facts live.

A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been making continual additions to his stock of knowledge in every century.

Empty heads, cognitive science has taught us, learn nothing. The powerful cultural and personal flexibility of our species is owed at least in part to our starting off so well-informed; we are good learners because we know what to pay attention to and what questions are the right ones to ask.

In college, you learn how to learn. Four years is not too much time to spend at that.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

Children take in more information than we'd like to believe.

I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.

The savage and women are not what we call intellectual because they are not taught to know and manipulate the materials of knowledge.

I get smarter when I read seeing big words.

Learning is a plant that grows in all climes.

Many have marked the speed with which Muad'Dib learned the necessities of Arrakis. The Bene Gesserit, of course, know the basis of this speed. For the others, we can say that Muad'Dib learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn. And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn. It is shocking to find how many people do not believe they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult. Muad'Dib knew that every experience carries its lesson.