Quotes About Learning

Serving Leaders have to reduce their wisdom on 'how to succeed' into bite-sized packages.

I guess there are never enough books.

The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.

The pupil who is never required to do what he cannot do, never does what he can do.

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.

It's hardly possible to overstate the value, in the present state of human improvement, of placing human beings in contact with other persons dissimilar to themselves, and with modes of thought and action unlike those with which they are familiar. Such communication has always been... one of the primary sources of progress.

It is given to no human being to stereotype a set of truths, and walk safely by their guidance with his mind's eye closed.

In history, as in traveling, men usually see only what they already had in their own minds; and few learn much from history, who do not bring much with them to its study.

T]he source of everything respectable in man either as an intellectual or as a moral being namely, that his errors are corrigible.

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realised, until personal experience has brought it home

What the State can usefully do is to make itself a central depository, and active circulator and diffuser, of the experience resulting from many trials. Its business is to enable each experimentalist to benefit by the experiments of others, instead of tolerating no experiments but its own.

We know how easily the uselessness of almost every branch of knowledge may be proved to the complete satisfaction of those who do not possess it.

Banyak kebenaran yang baru kita sadari maknanya setelah kita alami sendiri.

The fatal tendency of mankind to leave off thinking about a thing when it is no longer doubtful, is the cause of half their errors.

A cultivated mind—I do not mean that of a philosopher, but any mind to which the fountains of knowledge have been opened, and which has been taught, in any tolerable degree, to exercise its faculties—finds sources of inexhaustible interest in all that surrounds it; in the objects of nature, the achievements of art, the imaginations of poetry, the incidents of history, the ways of mankind past and present, and their prospects in the future.

Ä°nsan hatalar?n? tart??ma ve deneyim yoluyla düzeltebilir. Yaln?zca deneyimle deÄŸil. Tart??ma da olmak zorundad?r ki deneyimin nas?l yorumlanaca?? gösterilebilsin.

Unlike baked beans, loaves of breads, or Fuji apples, books, once consumed, do not disappear.

Books are] vital to learning. Half the population don't go to football matches but that doesn't make football any less important.

Arthur Gremlin was doing a lot of smiling these days. He had seemed pretty tense when he first joined the firm, but the more time he spent with me, and the more he saw me in action, the more he relaxed. Finally after watching me spend three entire days trying to get a carton of milk open, he wiped the milk off his face and relaxed completely for the first time. It's like something that had been nagging at him finally went away.

When you first start to study a field, it seems like you have to memorize a zillion things. You don't. What you need is to identify the core principles – generally three to twelve of them – that govern the field. The million things you thought you had to memorize are simply various combinations of the core principles.

It is not owing to stupidity that they have preferred other forms of exercise to those of the mind.

The poet is poor, but the orator is made by cultivation." Horace

Being a true scholar means considering all opinions NOT just the ones we agree with.

It is time that we squarely face the fact that institutional schoolteaching is destructive to children.