Learning Quotes - Page 78

The book written against fame and learning has the author's name on the title-page.

I hear therefore with joy whatever is beginning to be said of the dignity and necessity of labor to every citizen. There is virtue yet in the hoe and the spade, for learned as well as for unlearned hands. And labor is everywhere welcome; always we are invited to work; only be this limitation observed, that a man shall not for the sake of wider activity sacrifice any opinion to the popular judgments and modes of action.

Throughout the ages there have always been those who have been willing to go beyond the norms and reach for that unknown and distant star.

A certain awkwardness marks the use of borrowed thoughts; but as soon as we have learned what to do with them, they become our own.

Each mind has its own method. A true man never acquires after college rules.

A man should carry nature in his head.

Men grind and grind in the mill of a truism, and nothing comes out but what was put in. But the moment they desert the tradition for a spontaneous thought, then poetry, wit, hope, virtue, learning, anecdote, and all flock to their aid.

Wherever we go, whatever we do, self is the sole subject we study and learn.

Things just happen, it will pass, it's your learning process.

Some of us are just less damaged than others.

For all the best teachers pride themselves on having a large number of pupils and think themselves worthy of a bigger audience.

Yet, most every corporate effort to graft this truly innovative practices into their culture has failed because, again and again, people reduce the living practice of AAR's to a sterile technique.

In the knowledge economy everyone is a volunteer, but we have trained our managers to manage conscripts.

Most wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong: They learn in suffering what they teach in song.

A reader does not suddenly comprehend what is being read or studied, in a snap, miraculously. Comprehension needs to be worked forged, by those who read and study; as subjects of the action, they must seek to employ appropriate instruments in order to carry out the task. For this very reason, reading and studying form a challenging task, one requiring patience and perseverance.

The most important experiences a man can have are those that take him to the very limit; that is the only way we learn, because it requires all our courage.

I can always see what I've done wrong. I'm always learning. I'm the perennial student.

I have never learned anything except from people younger than myself.

You must feed your mind with reading material, thoughts, and ideas that open you to new possibilities.

Whatever the skill of any country may be in the sciences, it is from its excellence in polite learning alone that it must expect a character from posterity.

Who, born for the universe, narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind; Though fraught with all learning, yet straining his throat To persuade Tommy Townshend to lend him a vote. Who too deep for his hearers still went on refining, And thought of convincing while they thought of dining: Though equal to all things, for all things unfit; Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit.

And learn the luxury of doing good.

At home we have always regarded the dining table as the prime seat of learning. We planned it so it was impossible to see or hear a TV from the table, and it has paid dividends in the volume of ideas that have been shared over the evening meal.

Our educational system basically strives for normal-which is too bad. Sometimes the exceptional is classified as abnormal and pushed aside.

Mother lode of learning.