Learning Quotes - Page 33

• Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Book, Reading, Written

  Henry David Thoreau (2004). “On Reading: From "Walden"”, p.6, Princeton University Press

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• He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind, he has descended into the secrets of all minds.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Secret, Mind, Thrive

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.20, 谷月社

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• There are treasures in books that all the money in the world cannot buy, but the poorest laborer can have for nothing.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Love, Book, World

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• A man learns to skate by staggering about and making a fool of himself. Indeed he progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Men, Progress, Fool

  George Bernard Shaw (1977). “The Portable Bernard Shaw”, Viking Adult

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• Things have their roots and branches. Affairs have their beginnings and their ends. To know what is first and what is last will lead one near the Way.

  Confucius

  Knowledge, Roots, Branches

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• I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I feel my fate in what I cannot fear. I learn by going where I have to go.

  Theodore Roethke

  Fear, Sleep, Fate

  The Waking (1953) p. 120

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• But man's capacities have never been measured; nor are we to judge of what he can do by any precedents, so little have been tried.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Judging, Littles

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.158, Penguin

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• I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people.

  Al Gore

  Funny, Witty, Regret

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• 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.

  Paulo Coelho

  Men, Important, Way

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• Laws for the liberal education of youth, especially of the lower class of people, are so extremely wise and useful, that, to a humane and generous mind, no expense for this purpose would be thought extravagant.

  John Adams

  Education, Wise, Law

  John Adams (1841). “Letters of John Adams: Addressed to His Wife”, p.284

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• There was once a man, Harry, called the steppenwolf. He went on two legs, wore clothes and was a human being, but nevertheless he was in reality a wolf of the steppes. He had learned a good deal of all that people of a good intelligence can, and was a fairly clever fellow. What he had not learned, however, was this: to find contentment in himself and his own life.

  Hermann Hesse

  Clever, Reality, Men

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• The entire object of true education is to make people not merely do the right things, but enjoy the right things — not merely industrious, but to love industry — not merely learned, but to love knowledge — not merely pure, but to love purity — not merely just, but to hunger and thirst after justice.

  John Ruskin

  Knowledge, People, Justice

  John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.275, University of Virginia Press

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• I'm glad I understand that while language is a gift, listening is a responsibility. (U.S. poet and writer, 1943- )

  Nikki Giovanni

  Responsibility, Listening, Language

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• Pursue something so important that even if you fail, the world is better off with you having tried.

  Tim O'Reilly

  Knowledge, Important, World

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• Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts which could not exist without it.

  Bertrand Russell

  Language, Programming

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.106, Routledge

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• The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education.

  Paul Feyerabend

  Education, Teaching, People

  Paul Feyerabend, Paul K. Feyerabend (1987). “Farewell to Reason”, p.316, Verso

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• If you would attain to what you are not yet, you must always be displeased by what you are. For where you are pleased with yourself there you have remained. Keep adding, keep walking, keep advancing.

  Saint Augustine

  Change, Leadership, Goal

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• You know that I don't believe that anyone has ever taught anything to anyone. I question that efficacy of teaching. The only thing that I know is that anyone who wants to learn will learn. And maybe a teacher is a facilitator, a person who puts things down and shows people how exciting and wonderful it is and asks them to eat.

  Carl Rogers

  Education, Teacher, Believe

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• Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains, except kill it.

  Erich Fromm

  Time, Knowledge, Men

  Erich Fromm (2000). “The Art of Loving: The Centennial Edition”, p.99, A&C Black

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• To those who do not know mathematics it is difficult to get across a real feeling as to the beauty, the deepest beauty, of nature ... If you want to learn about nature, to appreciate nature, it is necessary to understand the language that she speaks in.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Nature, Real, Science

  The Character of Physical Law ch. 2 (1965)

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• I've concluded that genius is as common as dirt. We suppress genius because we haven't yet figured out how to manage a population of educated men and women. The solution, I think, is simple and glorious. Let them manage themselves.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Men, Thinking, Simple

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• Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.

  W. H. Murray

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take choose the bolder.

  William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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  Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

  Lou Holtz

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• If you learn only methods, you'll be tied to your methods, but if you learn principles you can devise your own methods.

  Ray Bradbury

  Positive, Motivation, Journey

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