Learning Quotes - Page 30

• Man is but a beast without it: such a glorious god is Learning.

  Bhartrhari

  Men, Beast, Glorious

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• Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. The only function of a school is to make self-education easier; failing that, it does nothing.

  Isaac Asimov

  Believe, School, Self

  Isaac Asimov (1975). “Science Past, Science Future”, Doubleday Books

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• The proof of a high education is the ability to speak about complex matters as simply as possible.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Matter, Speak, Proof

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• What is education but a process by which a person begins to learn how to learn?

  Peter Ustinov

  Process, Persons, What Is Education

  Peter Ustinov (2011). “Dear Me”, p.203, Random House

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• Whatever authority I may have rests solely on knowing how little I know.

  Socrates

  Knowledge, Knowing, May

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• you must take the problem as it is, and let it be what it wants to be.

  Charles Kettering

  History, Want, Problem

  Charles Franklin Kettering (1961). “Prophet of progress: selections from the speeches of Charles F. Kettering”

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• All learning is derived from things previously known.

  Aristotle

  Known

  Aristotle (1871). “The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle”, p.155

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• Supposing is good, but finding out is better.

  Mark Twain

  Science, Supposing That, Design

  Mark Twain (2015). “Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3: The Complete and Authoritative Edition”, p.99, Univ of California Press

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• It's a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field.

  Stephen Covey

  Success, Business, Book

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• The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learning, and from that irreverence love may spring.

  Robertson Davies

  Love, Spring, Believe

  "Shakespeare over the Port". Book by Robertson Davies, 1960.

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• Eliminate numerical quotas, including Management by Objectives.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Knowledge, Quota, Management

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• Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad idea which could only have originated in California.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  California, Ideas, Programming

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• Or heritage and ideals, our code and standards - the things we live by and teach our children - are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.

  Walt Disney

  Children, Ideas, Feelings

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• He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

  John Dryden

  Fear, Life Lesson, Anxiety

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• We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  States, Learners, Observers

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1954). “The Power of Emerson's Wisdom”

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• We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free; but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free.

  Epictetus

  Giving, Credit, Philosopher

  Epictetus (1807). “The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, Preserved by Arrian ; The Enchiridion, and Fragments”, p.154

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• All I really need to know... I learned in kindergarten.

  Robert Fulghum

  Teaching, Needs, Meaningful Life

  Robert Fulghum (2010). “Uh-Oh: Some Observations from Both Sides of the Refrigerator Door”, Ivy Books

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• I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Love, Evil, Giving

  Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Merton (2007). “Gandhi on Non-Violence”, p.63, New Directions Publishing

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• The author himself is the best judge of his own performance; none has so deeply meditated on the subject; none is so sincerely interested in the event.

  Edward Gibbon

  Judging, Criticism, Events

  Edward Gibbon (1969). “Memoirs of My Life: Edited from the Manuscripts by Georges A. Bonnard”

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• We tried to have diplomas without learning, we tried to have jobs without work, we tried to have houses without savings, we tried to have government without responsibility.

  Newt Gingrich

  Jobs, Responsibility, Government

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• Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.

  William Hazlitt

  Education, May, Fool

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1092, Delphi Classics

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• I learned more about the economy from one South Dakota dust storm that I did in all my years of college.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  College, Dust, Years

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• I find that the three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni and parking for the faculty.

  Clark Kerr

  Education, Sex, Athletic

  Quoted in Time, 17 Nov. 1958

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• Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite.

  Jean Kerr

  Women, Memorable, Hypocrite

  Jean Kerr (1973). “Finishing Touches”, p.9, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• Every cook has to learn how to govern the state.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Cooking, Revolutionary, States

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