Quotes about learning
learning home doors
There is no easy method of learning difficult things. The method is to close the door, give out that you are not at home, and work. Joseph de Maistre
learning science collecting
[Instead of collecting stamps, he collected dictionaries and encyclopaedias:] Because you can learn more from them. Linus Pauling
learning writing men
I once heard a learned man say, "Every evil has its remedy, except folly. To reprimand an obstinate fool or to preach to a dolt is like writing upon the water. Christ healed the blind, the halt, the palsied, and the leprous. But the fool He could not cure." Khalil Gibran
learning ends programming
Vague and nebulous is the beginning of all things, but not their end.
learning men wife
An occasional lucky guess as to what makes a wife tick is the best a man can hope for, Even then, no sooner has he learned how to cope with the tick than she tocks.
learning men white-man
When they learn of Shakespeare and Goethe, we must teach them of Pushkin and Dumas. . . . Whatever the white man has done, we have done, and often better. Mary McLeod Bethune
learning knowledge reality
I have to tell it again and again: I have no doctrine. I only point out something. I point out reality, I point out something in reality which has not or too little been seen. I take him who listens to me at his hand and lead him to the window. I push open the window and point outside. I have no doctrine, I carry on a dialogue. Martin Buber
learning
Learn what you are and be such. Pindar
learning triumph conquer
We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger. Pierre Corneille
learning
When will we ever learn? When will we ever learn? Pete Seeger
learning men important
The most important experiences a man can have are those that take him to the very limit; that is the only way we learn, because it requires all our courage. Paulo Coelho
learning progeny
A progeny of learning. Richard Brinsley Sheridan
learning ifs
If you are not learning, no one will ever let you down. Robert Anthony
learning math shoes
Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best, he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear his shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house. Robert A. Heinlein
learning long live-and-learn
Live and learn, or you don't live long.
learning ignorant firsts
The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
learning winning agree-to-disagree
You don't have to win every argument. Agree to disagree. Regina Brett
learning best-is-yet-to-come god-never-blinks
It's OK to get angry with God. He can take it.
learning organization patterns
Learning is a process whereby a human being, or group, or organization, or society comes to understand and embody nature's patterns. Tom Johnson
learning issues nuclear
As a part of preparing those lawsuits, learning about those lawsuits, I learned about the various nuclear issues in parts of the nuclear production process I guess you'd say. Tom Udall
learning mind age
Age doesn't matter. An open mind does. Tim Ferriss
learning creative-juices two
Incidentally, when we're faced with a "prove or disprove," we're usually better off trying first to disprove with a counterexample, for two reasons: A disproof is potentially easier (we need just one counterexample); and nitpicking arouses our creative juices. Even if the given assertion is true, our search for a counterexample often leads to a proof, as soon as we see why a counterexample is impossible. Besides, it's healthy to be skeptical. Ronald Graham
learning programming activity
Programming is an explanatory activity. Roman Harper
learning men life-is-like
He who learns the rules of wisdom, without conforming to them in his life, is like a man who labored in his fields, but did not sow Saadi
learning greatness men
What I must do is all that concerns me, not what people think. This rule,equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. Ralph Waldo Emerson
learning students conversation
Conversation is the laboratory and workshop of the student.
learning use mark
A certain awkwardness marks the use of borrowed thoughts; but as soon as we have learned what to do with them, they become our own.
learning sacrifice men
I hear therefore with joy whatever is beginning to be said of the dignity and necessity of labor to every citizen. There is virtue yet in the hoe and the spade, for learned as well as for unlearned hands. And labor is everywhere welcome; always we are invited to work; only be this limitation observed, that a man shall not for the sake of wider activity sacrifice any opinion to the popular judgments and modes of action.
learning men desert
Men grind and grind in the mill of a truism, and nothing comes out but what was put in. But the moment they desert the tradition for a spontaneous thought, then poetry, wit, hope, virtue, learning, anecdote, and all flock to their aid.
learning self study
Wherever we go, whatever we do, self is the sole subject we study and learn.
learning matter speak
The proof of a high education is the ability to speak about complex matters as simply as possible.
learning secret mind
He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind, he has descended into the secrets of all minds.
learning states learners
We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.