Learning Quotes - Page 48

Your tax dollars are being used to pay for grade school classes that teach our children that CANNIBALISM, WIFE-SWAPPING, and the MURDER of infants and the elderly are acceptable behavior.

Healing is learning to trust life.

To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

The quickest way to unlock your talent is to take the flute out of the box.

Certainty ends inquiry.

Instruction, and advice, and commands will profit little, unless they are backed up by the pattern of your own life. Your children will never believe you are in earnest, and really wish them to obey you, so long as your actions contradict your counsel... Think not your children will practise what they do not see you do. You are their model picture, and they will copy what you are... will seldom learn habits which they see you despise, or walk in paths in which you do not walk yourself.

Angling may be said to be so like the Mathematics that it can never be fully learnt; at least not so fully but that there will still be more new experiments left for the trial of other men that succeed us.

If we use resources productively and take to heart the lessons learned from coping with the energy crisis, we face a future confronted only, as Pogo, once said, by insurmountable opportunities. The many crises facing us should be seen, then, not as threats, but as chances to remake the future so it serves all beings.

The function of genius is not to give new answers, but to pose new questions which time and mediocrity can resolve.

Arrogance, pedantry, and dogmatism...the occupational diseases of those who spend their lives directing the intellects of the young.

Ideas are, in truth, force.

Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.

All perception of truth is the detection of an analogy.

Ignorance may be bliss, but it does not lead to liberation.

If your life is free of failures, you're not taking enough risks.

See that any time you feel pained or defeated, it is only because you insist on clinging to what doesn't work. Dare to let go and you won't lose a thing except for a punishing idea.

Learn to depend upon yourself by doing things in accordance with your own way of thinking.

I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.

Things that people learn purely out of curiosity can have a revolutionary effect on human affairs.

I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.

One thing changes every evening: It's the audience, and I'm working my magic. I'm always learning from it.

John von Neumann draws attention to what seemed to him a contrast. He remarked that for simple mechanisms, it is often easier to describe how they work than what they do, while for more complicated mechanisms, it is usually the other way around.

Today, cultural and legal changes mean that individuals expect and demand a voice in decisions that affect their lives and often they have the power to undermine those decisions if they aren't allow their voice.

Learn as much as you can while you are young, since life becomes too busy later.

In spiritual growth, it is important to avoid imbalances between academic or intellectual learning and practical implementation. Otherwise there is a danger that too much intellectualiza tion will kill the more contemplative practices and too much emphasis on practical implementation without study will kill the understanding. There has got to be a balance.