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 talking
You aren't learning anything when you're talking. Lyndon B. Johnson
learning people watches
Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it; merely to show that you have one. Lord Chesterfield
learning heart ignorance
A learned parson, rusting in his cell at Oxford or Cambridge, will reason admirably well on the nature of man; will profoundly analyse the head, the heart, the reason, the will, the passions, the sentiments, and all those subdivisions of we know not what; and yet, unfortunately, he knows nothing of man.... He views man as he does colours in Sir Isaac Newton's prism, where only the capital ones are seen; but an experienced dyer knows all their various shades and gradations, together with the result of their several mixtures.
learning simple programming
In the beginning we must simplify the subject, thus unavoidably falsifying it, and later we must sophisticate away the falsely simple beginning. Maimonides
learning-experience
It was a great learning experience to work with James Stewart. Julie Adams
learning mind matter
The mind is but a barren soil; a soil which is soon exhausted, and will produce no crop, or only one, unless it be continually fertilized and enriched with foreign matter. Joshua Reynolds
learning science trouble
It AIN'T so much the things we don't know that get us into trouble. It's the things we know that just ain't so. Josh Billings
learning design machines
I had been impressed by the fact that biological systems were based on molecular machines and that we were learning to design and build these sorts of things. K. Eric Drexler
learning mind progress
The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals. Madame de Stael
learning past romance
The last few decades have been marked by a special cultivation of the romance of the future. We seem to have made up our minds to misunderstand what has happened; and we turn, with a sort of relief, to stating what will happen-which is apparently much easier...The modern mind is forced towards the future by a certain sense of fatigue, not unmixed with terror, with which it regards the past. Gilbert K. Chesterton
learning house words-of-wisdom
We need to haunt the house of history and listen anew to the ancestors' wisdom. Maya Angelou
learning grace followers
The signs of outstanding leadership appear primarily among the followers. Are the followers reaching their potential? Are they learning? Serving? Do they achieve the required results? Do they change with grace? Manage conflict? Max de Pree
learning
The ego is there, but I'm learning to channel it. Ridley Scott
learning-something-new mature about-yourself
As you get older, youre always maturing, youre always learning something new about yourself. Troy Vincent
learning enemy
You can learn from anyone even your enemy. Ovid
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 decision training
The only power you have on this planet is the power of your decisions.
learning keys history
I've always said, the key organ here isn't the brain, it's the stomach. When things start to decline - there are bad headlines in the papers and on television - will you have the stomach for the market volatility and the broad-based pessimism that tends to come with it? Peter Lynch
learning parent way
I learned the way a monkey learns - by watching its parents. Prince Charles
learning men lame
It is a true proverb, that if you live with a lame man, you will learn to limp. Plutarch
learning trying no-failure
If you try to do your best there is no failure. Mike Farrell
learning years world
In a world in which the total of human knowledge is doubling about every ten years, our security can rest only on our ability to learn Nathaniel Branden
learning errors nursery
Habit is the nursery of errors. Victor Hugo
learning sometimes make-sense
Sometimes when learning comes before experience It doesn't make sense right away. Richard Bach
learning shining be-who-you-are
Just be who you are, calm and clear and bright. Automatically, as we shine who we are, asking ourselves every minute is this what I really want to do, doing it only when we answer yes, automatically that turns away those who have nothing to learn from who we are and attracts those who do, and from whom we have to learn, as well.
learning people culture
Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going. Rita Mae Brown
learning caring order
In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate. Rene Descartes