Learning Barrier Quotes

The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow- witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him.

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.

You cannot teach old dogs new tricks.

When you think you know something: that is a most perfect barrier against learning.

Rote learning is a killer for most of us and for some people, it really excludes them.

I don't know if subconsciously there was some reaction going on, if there was something in me that didn't want to learn an instrument - because I couldn't have been that incompetent!

Learning can be a bridge between doing and thinking. But then there is a danger that the person who uses learning as a bridge between doing and thinking may get stuck in learning and never get on to thinking.

I can't sit down long enough to absorb any kind of learning.

A fearful child cannot learn.

I'm just not a good reader, so I haven't been able to sit down and get myself through an entire book in my whole life.

Don't you find that the more you know, the more you don't know and can't ever learn because there's too much stuff out there?

I didn't understand how to get a practice space or buy gear - I never thought I could do any of that - let alone get in front of people and play the songs.