Learning Quotes, Proverbs & Sayings - Page 17

There’s nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear.
Daniel Dennett

To develop a complete mind: study the science of art; study the art of science. Learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else.
Leonardo da Vinci

Experience is the oracle of truth; and where its responses are unequivocal, they ought to be conclusive and sacred.
James Madison

Give me a fruitful error any time, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections. You can keep your sterile truth for yourself.
Vilfredo Pareto

The Negro has no room to make any substantial compromises because his store of advantages is too small. He must press unrelentingly for quality, integrated education or his whole drive for freedom will be undermined by the absence of a most vital and indispensable element — learning.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

The best learners… often make the worst teachers. They are, in a very real sense, perceptually challenged. They cannot imagine what it must be like to struggle to learn something that comes so naturally to them.
Stephen Brookfield

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
Mark Twain

I don’t think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
Abraham Lincoln

In all affairs it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
Bertrand Russell

It definitely has learning a lesson about the way you’re living your life. I wouldn’t compare our movie to that, but it has a structure where it’s about a man who doesn’t appreciate all that he has and finds out at the end that life has been great and he has to enjoy that.
Adam Sandler

Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.
Octavio Paz

Growth and mastery come only to those who vigorously self-direct. Initiating, creating, doing, reflecting, freely associating, enjoying privacy—these are precisely what the structures of schooling are set up to prevent, on one pretext or another.
John Taylor Gatto

The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.
Mark Van Doren

Concentration can be cultivated. One can learn to exercise will power, discipline one’s body and train one’s mind.
Anil Ambani

I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.
Franklin P. Adams

Presumably man’s spirit should be elevated if he can better review his shady past and analyze more completely and objectively his present problems.
Vannevar Bush

It is not the biggest, the brightest or the best that will survive, but those who adapt the quickest.
Charles Darwin

There is no absolute knowledge. And those who claim it, whether they are scientists or dogmatists, open the door to tragedy. All information is imperfect. We have to treat it with humility.
Jacob Bronowski

Of all the inanimate objects, of all men’s creations, books are the nearest to us, for they contain our very thoughts, our ambitions, our indignations, our illusions, our fidelity to truth, and our persistent leaning toward error.
Joseph Conrad

Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand.
Ezra Pound

If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators.
William Hazlitt

Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.
W. Clement Stone

Men must have the right of choice, even to choose wrong, if he shall ever learn to choose right.
Josiah C. Wedgwood

We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take us or spare us.
Marcel Proust

The relation of repetitions for learning and for repeating English stanzas needs no amplification. These were learned by heart on the first day with less than half of the repetitions necessary for the shortest of the syllable series.
Hermann Ebbinghaus

I like doing accents and I like learning as much as I can learn.
Jaime King

One’s first step in wisdom is to question everything — and one’s last is to come to terms with everything.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

I’ve been making a list of the things they don’t teach you at school. They don’t teach you how to love somebody. They don’t teach you how to be famous. They don’t teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don’t teach you how to walk away from someone you don’t love any longer. They don’t teach you how to know what’s going on in someone else’s mind. They don’t teach you what to say to someone who’s dying. They don’t teach you anything worth knowing.
Neil Gaiman

With engineering, I view this year’s failure as next year’s opportunity to try it again. Failures are not something to be avoided. You want to have them happen as quickly as you can so you can make progress rapidly.
Gordon Moore

Winning is not everything – but making the effort to win was… If you can’t accept losing, you can’t win.
Vince Lombardi

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