Learning Quotes - Page 28

If you want to be constructive in politics, the less you look back, the better. If you do look back, then it can only be to learn for yourself through the events that have taken place.

All mankind is now learning that these nuclear weapons can only serve to destroy, never become beneficial.

I answered that one learns to live, not by hearing of other lives, but by living; for words are infinitely less important than acts.

The great end of education is, to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.

Learn to obey before you command.

I wish I'd known early what I had to learn late.

Let the bird sing without deciphering the song.

The mind aware of itself is a pilot... vastly freer than a passenger mind.

There is in every child a painstaking teacher so skillful that he obtains identical results in all children in all parts of the world. The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one teaches them anything.

Learning is acquired by reading books; much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various editions of them.

As evolutionary time is measured, we have only just turned up and have hardly had time to catch breath, still marveling at our thumbs, still learning to use the brand-new gift of language. Being so young, we can be excused all sorts of folly and can permit ourselves the hope that someday, as a species, we will begin to grow up.

The parent knows that the child cannot be artificially motivated to learn; they know that he is already motivated by the strongest driving force on earth: his inner intent.

Genius is an exceedingly common human quality, probably natural to most of us.

Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.

A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.

Mathematics is a language. We want scientists to be able to read it, speak it, and write it. But we are are not training them to be grammarians.

Allow yourself to experience what it is to learn step by step the freedom that comes from being unattached to the outcome, but operating from an empowered heart.

As far as I have seen, at school...they aimed at blotting out one's individuality.

Power corrupts. Knowledge is power. Study hard. Be evil.

All of life is a constant education.

If you're pursuing something that you love and you're learning something new, every day, that's the key to youth [staying young].

We learn by reflecting on what has happened. The process seldom works in reverse, although most educational processes assume that it does. We hope that we can teach people how to live before they live, or how to manage before they manage.

As an artist grows older, he has to fight disillusionment and learn to establish the same relation to nature as an adult, as he had when a child

As you think, so shall you become.

Commit yourself to lifelong learning. The most valuable asset you'll ever have is your mind and what you put into it.