Learning Quotes - Page 81

I imagine most of that stuff on the information highway is roadkill anyway.

We are here for the purpose of redeeming and regenerating the earth on which we live, and God has placed his authority and his counsels here upon the earth for that purpose, that men may learn to do the will of God on the earth as it is done in heaven. This is the object of our existence.

He who has no inclination to learn more will be very apt to think that he knows enough.

Spiritual transformation is not a matter of trying harder, but of training wisely.

Every time we get slapped down, we can say, Thank you Mother Nature, because it means we're about to learn something important.

Enflamed with the study of learning and the admiration of virtue; stirred up with high hopes of living to be brave men and worthy patriots, dear to God, and famous to all ages.

The Commonwealth of Learning is not at this time without Master-Builders, whose mighty Designs, in advancing the Sciences, will leave lasting Monuments to the Admiration of Posterity; But every one must not hope to be a Boyle, or a Sydenham; and in an Age that produces such Masters, as the Great-Huygenius, and the incomparable Mr. Newton, with some other of that Strain; 'tis Ambition enough to be employed as an Under-Labourer in clearing Ground a little, and removing some of the Rubbish, that lies in the way to Knowledge.

If you want to learn about the whole government and how it operates, the Appropriations Committee is the best place to learn it.

Learning by study must be won; 'Twas ne'er entail'd from son to son.

Learn to write well, or not to write at all.

Since growth is the characteristic of life, education is all one with growing; it has no end beyond itself. The criterion of the value of school education is the extent in which it creates a desire for continuous growth and supplies means for making the desire effective in fact.

To attract joy and create more success, try doing less but doing it with more enthusiasm.

A man must cling to the belief that the incomprehensible is comprehensible; otherwise he would not try to fathom it.

The close and thoughtful observer more and more learns to recognize his limitations. He realizes that with the steady growth of knowledge more and more new problems keep on emerging.

Zen goes directly to your own experience of the oneness of the universe, of your interconnectedness with all things. You learn to distrust whatever you clung to in your old sense of separation, and that realization can be the most liberating thing in your life, a freedom beyond anything you could have imagined.

The wisest man may always learn something from the humblest peasant.

Some people learn from books, some listen to the advice of others, some learn from mistakes. I fit into the last category. So sue me.

...one of the reasons I like classes and structured learning is that they encourage -and contribute to-the belief that life is orderly, that things happen when they are supposed to happen, that actions have predictable results and that events are controllable.

I am a huge consumer of social networks, and I utilize Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn. I'm interested and am learning more about Tumblr and other visually dominant sites.

If you want learning, you must work for it.

At UCLA I quickly learned the knack of getting grades, a craven surrender to custom, since grades had little to do with learning.

It is well, when the wise and the learned discover new truths; but how much better to diffuse the truths already discovered, amongst the multitude! Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power; and while a philosopher is discovering one new truth, millions may be propagated amongst the people. Diffusion, then, rather than discovery, is the duty of our government.

While nature thus very early and very abundantly feeds us, she is very late in tutoring us as to the proper methodization of our diet.

Attaching significance to invariants is an effort to recognize what, because of its form or colour or meaning or otherwise, is important or significant in what is only trivial or ephemeral. A simple instance of failing in this is provided by the poll-man at Cambridge, who learned perfectly how to factorize a^2 - b^2 but was floored because the examiner unkindly asked for the factors of p^2 - q^2.

Learning, to be of much use, must have a tendency to spread itself among the common people.