Learning Quotes - Page 40

I walked a mile with Pleasure; She chattered all the way. But left me none the wiser For all she had to say. I walked a mile with Sorrow And ne'er a word said she; But oh, the things I learned from her When Sorrow walked with me!

There is an extraordinary collaborative spirit when you are learning and growing.

It's a good thing to learn early that other people's opinions do not matter, unless they happen to be true.

One of the biggest lessons I've learned recently is that when you don't know what to do, you should do nothing until you figure out what to do because a lot of times you feel like you are pressed against the wall, and you've got to make a decision. You never have to do anything. Don't know what to do? Do nothing.

If you want the best the world has to offer, offer the world your best.

Dive into the sea of thought, and find there pearls beyond price.

most people did not care to be taught what they did not already know; it made them feel ignorant.

I have to tell it again and again: I have no doctrine. I only point out something. I point out reality, I point out something in reality which has not or too little been seen. I take him who listens to me at his hand and lead him to the window. I push open the window and point outside. I have no doctrine, I carry on a dialogue.

I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

The good man is the teacher of the bad, And the bad is the material from which the good may learn. He who does not value the teacher, Or greatly care for the material, Is greatly deluded although he may be learned. Such is the essential mystery.

Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value

I've learned so many things and a lot of things I've learned the hard way. I look at failure as education in that respect I'm very well educated.

Thus men of more enlighten'd genius and more intrepid spirit must compose themselves to the risque of public censure, and the contempt of their jealous contemporaries, in order to lead ignorant and prejudic'd minds into more happy and successful methods.

We presuppose two things: that there is yet to be learned infinitely more than is now known, and that man can learn it.

A teacher's failure to create an intellectually reflective, engagement for learning is not simply malpractice but it is immoral particularly for students who cannot withdraw.

Not everyone has equal abilities, but everyone should have equal opportunity for education.

The person who loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.

Philosophy is the history of philosophy.

What is learned without pleasure is forgotten without remorse.

Learning is the art of ignoring.

A highbrow is a man who has found something more interesting than women.

I am the most travelled of all my contemporaries; I have extended my field of enquiry wider than anybody else, I have seen more countries and climes, and have heard more speeches of learned men. No one has surpassed me in the composition of lines, according to demonstration, not even the Egyptian knotters of ropes, or geometers.

When we see persons of worth, we should think of equaling them; when we see persons of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.

I find that the three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni and parking for the faculty.

Those who keep learning, will keep rising in life