Quotes about learning
learning acceptance science
Inquiry is fatal to certainty. Will Durant
learning sea hills
The hills are reared, the seas are scooped in vain If learning's altar vanish from the plain. William Ellery Channing
learning science solitude
Mark all Mathematical heads which be wholly and only bent on these sciences, how solitary they be themselves, how unfit to live with others, how unapt to serve the world. Roger Ascham
learning persistence simple
When the problem [quantum chromodynamics] is finally solved, it will all be by imagination. Then there will be some big thing about the great way it was done. But it's simple -it will all be by imagination, and persistence. Richard P. Feynman
learning language problem
Precise language is not the problem. Clear language is the problem.
learning dark want
When a Caltech student asked the eminent cosmologist Michael Turner what his "bias" was in favoring one or another particle as a likely candidate to compromise dark matter in the universe, Feynmann snapped, "Why do you want to know his bias? Form your own bias!"
learning doubt needs
We need to teach how doubt is not to be feared but welcomed. It's OK to say, "I don't know."
learning blood sweat
Nothing of any importance can be taught. It can only be learned, and with blood and sweat. Robert Anton Wilson
learning journey addiction
I was faced with a choice: to deny my addiction and embrace that 'comfortably numb' but 'magicless' existence, or accept the burden of insight, take the road less travelled, and embark on the often painful journey to discover who I was and where I fit. Roger Waters
learning able causes
He is fortunate who had been able to learn the causes of things. -Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas Virgil
learning one-thing
Learn all from one thing. -Ab uno disce omnes
learning training way
Enter on the way of training while the spirits in youth are still pliable.
learning glowing politics
The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opposition than from his fervent supporters. Walter Lippmann
learning science thinking
If one does not reflect, one thinks oneself master of everything; but when one does reflect, one realizes that one is master of nothing. Voltaire
learning mean writing
Rewrite and revise. Do not be afraid to seize what you have and cut it to ribbons ... Good writing means good revising. William Strunk, Jr.
learning winter blow
O but we dreamed to mend Whatever mischief seemed To afflict mankind, but now That winds of winter blow Learn that we were crack-pated when we dreamed. William Butler Yeats
learning grease delight
I delight in the diffusion of learning; yet, I must confess it, I am most gratified and transported at finding a large quantity of it in one place; just as I would rather have a solid pat of butter at breakfast, than a splash of grease upon the table-cloth that covers half of it. Walter Savage Landor
learning want ifs
If you want to earn more - learn more. William J. H. Boetcker
learning understanding
It is only when the formed learns from the unformed that there is understanding. Zhuangzi
learning people trying
People will always try to stop you from doing the right thing if it is unconventional. Warren Buffett
learning cooking revolutionary
Every cook has to learn how to govern the state. Vladimir Lenin
learning photograph illiterate
Those who do not learn how to decipher photographs will be the illiterate of the future. Walter Benjamin
learning errors silent
The one who insists on never uttering an error must remain silent. Werner Heisenberg
learning thinking
Learn and think imperially. Joseph Chamberlain
learning-something-new elements pushing
I enjoy the element of pushing yourself, learning something new, whether it's a dance step, a scene, an emotion. Kenny Wormald
learning skills
Skill to do comes of doing. Ralph Waldo Emerson
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.
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.