You can not select more than 25 topics Topics must start with a letter or number, can include dashes ('-') and can be up to 35 characters long.

158 lines
6.4 KiB

%
Those who have knowledge are more confident than those who have no knowledge, and they are more confident after they have learned than before.
--Plato, "Protagoras"
%
Any fool can know. The point is to understand.
--Albert Einstein
%
It is not that I\'m so smart. But I stay with the questions much longer.
--Albert Einstein
%
Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.
--Benjamin Franklin
%
Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
--E.M Forster
%
The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
--Voltaire
%
For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You\'d be surprised how far that gets you.
--Neil deGrasse Tyson
%
Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.
--Richard Feynman
%
Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
--Socrates
%
Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
--Isaac Asimov
%
Study the past if you would define the future.
--Confucius
%
We are all failures- at least the best of us are.
--J.M. Barrie
%
Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker.
--Stanley Kubrick
%
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
--Albert Einstein
%
Change is the end result of all true learning.
--Leo Buscalia
%
Learning is not child\'s play; we cannot learn without pain.
--Aristotle
%
That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you\'ve understood all your life, but in a new way.
--Doris Lessing
%
The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
--Marcus Aurelius
%
It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
--Jacob Bronowski, "The Ascent of Man"
%
A man, though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind.
--Sophocles
%
Indeed, learning to write may be part of learning to read. For all I know, writing comes out of a superior devotion to reading.
--Eudora Welty
%
Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
--Plato, "The Republic"
%
A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.
--Frank Herbert
%
Do you train for passing tests or do you train for creative inquiry?
--Noam Chomsky
%
A stumble may prevent a fall.
--Thomas Fuller
%
I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays and have things arranged for them that they seem so forlornly unable to produce their own ideas.
--Agatha Christie
%
I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
--Pablo Picasso
%
Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself.
--Paulo Coelho
%
The formulation of the problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill.
--Albert Einstein
%
Never too late to learn some embarrassingly basic, stupidly obvious things about oneself.
--Alain de Botton
%
Human beings are the only creatures who are allowed to fail. If an ant fails, it's dead. But we're allowed to learn from our mistakes and from our failures. And that's how I learn, by falling flat on my face and picking myself up and starting all over again.
--Madeleine L'Engle
%
The essence of training is to allow error without consequence.
--Orson Scott Card, "Ender's Game"
%
Without language, thought is a vague, uncharted nebula.
--Ferdinand de Saussure, "Course in General Linguistics"
%
Learning is not the accumulation of knowledge, but rather, one thing only: understanding.
--Donna Jo Napoli
%
Learning is by nature curiosity…prying into everything, reluctant to leave anything, material or immaterial, unexplained.
--Philo of Alexandria
%
The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.
--Thomas Henry Huxley
%
We hear and apprehend only what we already half know.
--Henry David Thoreau
%
There are three kinds of men. The ones that learn by readin'. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.
--Will Rogers
%
Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.
--Jiddu Krishnamurti
%
For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.
--Aristotle, "Nicomachean Ethics"
%
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.
--Kurt Vonnegut, "Cat's Cradle"
%
The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
--B.B. King
%
Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age.
--Aristotle
%
Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
%
The greatest wisdom consists in knowing one's own follies.
--Madeleine De Souvre Sable
%
Segregation shaped me; education liberated me.
--Maya Angelou
%
Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind. Therefore do not use compulsion, but let early education be a sort of amusement; you will then be better able to discover the child's natural bent.
--Plato
%
Self-education is the only possible education; the rest is mere veneer laid on the surface of a child's nature.
--Charlotte M. Mason
%
Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery—it's the sincerest form of learning.
--George Bernard Shaw
%
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
--Benjamin Franklin, "Poor Richard's Almanack"
%
A little learning is a dangerous thing. Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring;<br />There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking largely sobers us again.
--Alexander Pope, "An Essay on Criticism"
%
I would teach children music, physics, and philosophy; but most importantly music, for the patterns in music and all the arts are the keys to learning.
--Plato
%