Learning Quotes - Page 42

In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him, and in that I am his pupil.

Since I've learned to be silent, everything has come so much closer to me.

Cato used to assert that wise men profited more by fools than fools by wise men; for that wise men avoided the faults of fools, but that fools would not imitate the good examples of wise men.

You can't manage knowledge.Knowledge is between two ears and only between two ears.

We learn as much from sorrow as from joy, as much from illness as from health, from handicap as from advantage and indeed perhaps more.

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

I am acutely conscious, from vast experience in opens, that guys around, say 2100 or more can definitely play chess and that one often has to work very hard to beat them.

The ability to take misfortune and make something good come of it is a rare gift. Those who possess it are ..said to have resilience or courage.

Those periods of struggling to overcome challenges are what people find to be the most enjoyable times.

It is good to live and learn.

From the first, I made my learning, what little it was, useful every way I could.

I think you learn more if you're laughing at the same time.

The best people know that there are two phases in every crisis: the one where you manage it and the other where you learn from it. To succeed you have to do both

Deep learning doesn't shine.

Only the thinking man lives his life, the thoughtless man's life passes him by.

Don't ask what it means, but rather how it is used.

Education rears disciples, imitators, and routinists, not pioneers of new ideas and creative geniuses. The schools are not nurseries of progress and improvement, but conservatories of tradition and unvarying modes of thought.

The wise are not learned, the learned are not wise.

Life is about love and experience and learning and evolving and I am richer and thankful for all of the experiences in my life.

School presents daily exercises in dis-association. It forces unwelcome associations on most of its prisoners. It sets petty, meaningless competitions in motion on a daily basis, pitting potential associates against one another in contests for praise and other worthless prizes.

The Civic University operates on a global scale but uses its location to form its identity.

I, myself, have had many failures and I've learned that if you are not failing a lot, you are probably not being as creative as you could be -you aren't stretching your imagination.

The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.

Remember that the secret of all learning is patience and that curiosity is not the same thing as a thirst for knowledge.

A great way to learn about your country is to leave it.