Learning Quotes - Page 32

• Nothing of any importance can be taught. It can only be learned, and with blood and sweat.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Blood, Sweat, Taught

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• If we taught babies to talk as most skills are taught in school, they would memorize lists of sounds in a predetermined order and practice them alone in a closet.

  Linda Darling-Hammond

  Education, Baby, School

  Linda Darling-Hammond, Nicole Ramos-Beban, Rebecca Padnos Altamirano, Maria E. Hyler (2016). “Be the Change: Reinventing School for Student Success”, p.114, Teachers College Press

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• Index-learning turns no student pale,
  Yet holds the eel of Science by the tail.
  Index-learning is a term used to mock pretenders who acquire superficial knowledge merely by consulting indexes.

  Alexander Pope

  Science, Superficial Knowledge, Eels

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• Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Knowledge, Views, Decision

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1984). “Notebooks, 1914-1916”, p.50, University of Chicago Press

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• Science is founded on uncertainty. Each time we learn something new and surprising, the astonishment comes with the realization that we were wrong before.

  Lewis Thomas

  Science, Realization, Astonishment

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• If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

  Mao Zedong

  Change, Military, Knowledge

  Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.108, Lulu.com

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• 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.

  Michio Kaku

  Life, War, Science

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• The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.

  Oscar Wilde

  Happiness, Live Life, Yoga

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.183, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities-that's training or instruction-but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed.

  Thomas W. Moore

  Science, Data, Skills

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• The child which overbalances itself in learning to walk is experimenting on the law of gravity.

  William Stanley Jevons

  Children, Science, Law

  William Stanley Jevons (1883). “Methods of Social Reform: And Other Papers”

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• You all have learned reliance
  On the sacred teachings of Science,
  So I hope, through life, you will never decline
  In spite of philistine Defiance
  To do what all good scientists do.
  Experiment.
  Make it your motto day and night.
  Experiment.
  And it will lead you to the light.

  Cole Porter

  Teaching, Science, Night

  Cole Porter (1954). “103 lyrics”

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• Nature is not cruel, only pitilessly indifferent. This is one of the hardest lessons for humans to learn. We cannot admit that things might be neither good nor evil, neither cruel nor kind, but simply callous-indifferent to all suffering, lacking all purpose.

  Richard Dawkins

  Nature, Science, Evil

  Richard Dawkins (1995). “River out of eden: a Darwinian view of life”, Basic Books (AZ)

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• The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• What is best in mathematics deserves not merely to be learnt as a task, but to assimilated as a part of daily thought, and brought again and again before the mind with ever-renewed encouragement.

  Bertrand Russell

  Encouragement, Science, Mind

  Bertrand Russell (1985). “Contemplation and Action, 1902-14”, p.86, Psychology Press

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  I keep six honest serving men (they taught me all i knew); Theirs names are What and Why and When And How And Where and Who.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Leadership, Education, Knowledge

  Just So Stories "The Elephant's Child" (1902)

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• Research has deserted the individual and entered the group. The individual worker find the problem too large, not too difficult. He must learn to work with others.

  Theobald Smith

  Science, Groups, Research

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• Some people are so busy in learning the tricks of the trade that they never learn the trade.

  Vern Law

  People, Busy, Tricks

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• Learning passes for wisdom among those who want both.

  William Temple

  Wisdom, Want

  Sir William Temple (1814). “The Works of Sir William Temple, Bart: An essay upon the advancement of trade in Ireland. Of popular discontents. An introduction to the history of England. Of gardening. An essay upon the cure of the gout by moxa. Of health and long life. Of heroic virtue. Of poetry. An essay upon ancient and modern learning. Thoughts upon reviewing that essay. Of the excesses of grief. Of the different conditions of life and fortune. Heads of an essay on conversation. Poetry”, p.125

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• Learn what you are and be such.

  Pindar

  Inspirational, Leadership, Sports

  Pindar (1959). “The odes of Pindar”

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• In such business Action is eloquence, and the eyes of th’ ignorant More learned than the ears.

  William Shakespeare

  Business, Eye, Ignorant

  William Shakespeare (1796*). “The beauties of Shakespeare, selected from his plays and poems”, p.142

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• There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don't know.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Science, Old Things, Investing

  “FBI revisiting Clinton emails just latest in long history of 'October Surprises“ by Chad Pergram, www.foxnews.com. October 29, 2016.

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• It is not enough that we do our best; sometimes we must do what is required.

  Winston Churchill

  Love, Inspirational, Encouraging

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• If you want learning, you must work for it.

  J. G. Holland

  Want, Ifs

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• It is our American habit if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory to add another story or wing.

  Albert Einstein

  Education, Humorous, Wings

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• Learning from experience is a faculty almost never practiced

  Barbara Tuchman

  Teaching, Faculty, Learning Experience

  Barbara Tuchman (2015). “The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam”, p.354, Crux Publishing Ltd

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