We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.

—Malcolm Gladwell

About Malcolm Gladwell

Portrait of Malcolm Gladwell

Malcolm Timothy Gladwell (born September 3, 1963) is a British-Canadian journalist, author, and public speaker. He has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1996. He has published eight books. He is also the host of the podcast Revisionist History and co-founder of the podcast company Pushkin Industries.

More quotations from Malcolm Gladwell

If we are to learn to improve the quality of the decisions we make, we need to accept the mysterious nature of our snap judgments.

—Malcolm Gladwell

You can learn as much—or more—from one glance at a private space as you can from hours of exposure to a public face.

—Malcolm Gladwell

The face is not a secondary billboard for our internal feelings. It is an equal partner in the emotional process.

—Malcolm Gladwell

Truly successful decision making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking.

—Malcolm Gladwell

There can be as much value in the blink of an eye as in months of rational analysis.

—Malcolm Gladwell

More quotations tagged with “learning”

Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked.

—Lord Chesterfield

Much learning does not teach understanding.

The wisest mind has something yet to learn.

—George Santayana

Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student.

Whoso neglects learning in his youth,
Loses the past and is dead for the future.

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