Learning Quotes - Page 62

The germ of an idea doesn't make the sculpture that stands up... so the next stage is hard work

When I was a graduate student at Harvard, I learned about showers and central heating. Ten years later, I learned about breakfast meetings. These are America's three great contributions to civilization.

Men of polite learning and a liberal education.

La rama que crece torcida nunca se endereza. A branch that grows crooked, or that is crooked from the beginning, will never straighten out. If you don't learn right from wrong early on, or if you don't learn manners when you are young, you will never learn them later.

Man's most human characteristic is not his ability to learn, which he shares with many other species, but his ability to teach and store what others have developed and taught him.

Example is better than precept.

The public must learn how to cherish the nobler and rarer plants, and to plant the aloe, able to wait a hundred years for it's bloom, or it's garden will contain, presently, nothing but potatoes and pot-herbs.

Learning maketh young men temperate, is the comfort of old age, standing for wealth with poverty, and serving as an ornament to riches.

Learning takes us through many states of life, but it fails utterly in the hour of danger and temptation. Then faith alone saves.

I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.

The true order of learning should be first, what is necessary; second, what is useful, and third, what is ornamental. To reverse this arrangement is like beginning to build at the top of the edifice.

All teachers are good for someone. There are some teachers out there who I cannot stand, for whatever reason. I cannot even bear the sound of one teacher's voice. Yet they are wonderful teachers for other people. They just are not for me.

What you are is a question only you can answer.

[Instead of collecting stamps, he collected dictionaries and encyclopaedias:] Because you can learn more from them.

Learning to draw is really a matter of learning to see - to see correctly - and that means a good deal more than merely looking with the eye.

I once heard a learned man say, "Every evil has its remedy, except folly. To reprimand an obstinate fool or to preach to a dolt is like writing upon the water. Christ healed the blind, the halt, the palsied, and the leprous. But the fool He could not cure."

Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life.

I had been impressed by the fact that biological systems were based on molecular machines and that we were learning to design and build these sorts of things.

All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.

Nothing has happened in education until it has happened to a student.

Four years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating notion that now I could teach myself.

It's not up to us what we learn, but merely whether we learn through joy or through pain.

The dairy man had a Ph.D. in mathematics, and he must have had some training in philosophy. He liked what he was doing and he didn't want to be somewhere else - one of the few contented people I met in my whole journey.

No man is the wiser for his learning

An individual who stands out, or disagrees or takes risks is a danger to such systems and is effortlessly and, unconsciously sidelined.