Learning Quotes - Page 18

Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.

If we are to survive, we must have ideas, vision, and courage. These things are rarely produced by committees. Everything that matters in our intellectual and moral life begins with an individual confronting his own mind and conscience in a room by himself.

The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.

What we have to learn, in both meditation and in life, is to be free of attachment to the good experiences, and free of aversion to the negative ones.

If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it.

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.

Some people have learned to earn well but they haven't learned to live well.

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

Make the work interesting and the discipline will take care of itself.

We are a long time in learning that all our strength and salvation is in God.

We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?

The task of leadership is to be intentional about the way we group people and the questions that we engage them in.

I think you never stop learning.

I keep learning, listening, growing and experimenting.

A master lives in the world of transformation, not the world of loss and gain.

Do not fear adversity. Remember, a kite rises against the wind rather than with it. People are not willing to take risks when they feel afraid or threatened. But if you manage people by love-that is, if you show them respect and trust-they start to perform up to their real capabilities.

My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an extent which infuriates me when I think of all I might have learned at home by myself.

You can stay young as long as you learn.

That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.

Not to unlearn what you have learned is the most necessary kind of learning.

It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is. Physics concerns what we say about nature.

Experience comes from bad judgment.

We've got to do fewer things in school. The greatest enemy of understanding is coverage... You've got to take enough time to get kids deeply involved in something so they can think about it in lots of different ways and apply it.

Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.

Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.