Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [201-220] of 289 Learning quotesLearning QuotesLearning Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes There is no such thing as the last word in history. There is always scope for debate in the reading of history which is never static.~ Tony Martin In my profession, it is not enough to know your history, speak a language and be widely traveled. Equally important is how to weigh and organize evidence. How to listen. How to see a situation from the other person's point of view. How to deal with complexity and realize that few issues in the world come with just one side. How to learn, not what to think.~ John E. McLaughlin My grandmother wanted me to have an education, so she kept me out of school.~ Margaret Mead It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.~ Menander The psychologists and the metaphysicians wrangle endlessly over the nature of the thinking process in man, but no matter how violently they differ otherwise they all agree that it has little to do with logic and is not much conditioned by overt facts.~ H. L. Mencken All I ask is equal freedom. When it is denied, as it always is, I take it anyhow.~ H. L. Mencken No article of faith is proof against the disintegrating effects of increasing information; one might almost describe the acquirement of knowledge as a process of disillusion.~ H. L. Mencken What we have to remember is that not everything is under our control. If people are free in any meaningful sense of the word, that means they are at liberty to foul up their lives as much as make something grand of them. That's a gamble we all take. That's the risk of liberty. Nobody wants others to screw up their lives, but each must be free to do so for themselves.~ Joel Miller For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them; they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.~ John Milton Say not, when I have leisure I will study; you may not have leisure.~ The Mishnah Rousseau had it backwards. We are NOT born free. We are born in the chains of the random and the reflexive, and are ignorant and unreasonable by simple nature. We must learn to be free, to organize the random and detect the reflexive, to acquire the knowledge of particulars and the powers of reason. The examined life is impossible if we cannot examine, order, classify, define, distinguish, always in minute particulars.~ Richard Mitchell Children aren't happy without something to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.~ Ogden Nash The National Education Association believes that home schooling programs based on parental choice cannot provide the student with a comprehensive education experience.~ National Education Association Resolution We are human and our lot is to learn and to be hurled into inconceivable new worlds.~ Novalis As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.~ J. Robert Oppenheimer All err the more dangerously because each follows a truth. Their mistake lies not in following a falsehood but in not following another truth.~ Blaise Pascal ....it is always easier to tell people what to do than to find out what is happening...~ Martin Pawley Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.~ Plato Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.~ Titus Maccius Plautus No man is wise enough by himself.~ Titus Maccius Plautus Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print