Learning Quotes - Page 72

Graduation day was a milestone in the most important journey of all - to the centre of oneself.

We must be forewarned that only rarely does a text easily lend itself to the reader's curiosity... the reading of a text is a transaction between the reader and the text, which mediates the encounter between the reader and writer. It is a composition between the reader and the writer in which the reader "rewrites" the text making a determined effort not to betray the author's spirit.

The joy of suddenly learning a former secret and the joy of suddenly discovering a hitherto unknown truth are the same to me - both have the flash of enlightenment, the almost incredibly enhanced vision, and the ecstasy and euphoria of released tension.

teaching meant for the hands enters most easily through the eyes.

I'm always trying new things and learning new things. If there isn't anything more you can learn - go off and die.

Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.

After that cancellation [of the Superconducting Super Collider in Texas, after $2 billion had been spent on it], we physicists learned that we have to sing for our supper. ... The Cold War is over. You can't simply say "Russia!" to Congress, and they whip out their checkbook and say, "How much?" We have to tell the people why this atom-smasher is going to benefit their lives.

Something fundamental changes when people begin to ask questions together. The questions create more of a learning conversation than the normal stale debate about problems.

The ability to learn is older as it is also more widespread than is the ability to teach.

Broadly speaking, I learned to recognize sin as the refusal to live up to the enlightenment we possess: to know the right order of values and deliberately to choose the lower ones: to know that, however much these values may differ with different people at different stages of spiritual growth, for one's self there must be no compromise with that which one knows to be the lower value.

Mean-spirited mediocrities, especially those with a smattering of learning, are the most likely to be opinionated. Only strong minds know how to correct their opinions and abandon a bad position.

If you should put a knife into a French girl's learning it would explode and blow away like an omelette soufflee.

Let proportion be found not only in numbers and measures, but also in sounds, weights, times, and positions, and what ever force there is.

Confidence is simply that quiet assured feeling you have before you fall flat on your face.

Learning can be a bridge between doing and thinking. But then there is a danger that the person who uses learning as a bridge between doing and thinking may get stuck in learning and never get on to thinking.

I had learning disabilities, and I couldn't express myself in the written word.

Attain deliverance in disturbances.

I hope I'm always learning something.

It AIN'T so much the things we don't know that get us into trouble. It's the things we know that just ain't so.

Learn and think imperially.

The entire object of true education is to make people not merely do the right things, but enjoy the right things — not merely industrious, but to love industry — not merely learned, but to love knowledge — not merely pure, but to love purity — not merely just, but to hunger and thirst after justice.

Whence is thy learning? Hath thy toil O'er books consumed the midnight oil?

As a child lives today, he will live tomorrow.

Most people are just trying to get through the day. Be committed to learn to get from the day. Don't just get through it; get from it. Learn from it. Let the day teach you. Join the university of life. What a difference that will make in your future. Commit yourself to learning. Commit yourself to absorbing. Be like a sponge. Get it. Don't miss it.

I want to keep learning, keep exploring, keep doing more.