Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [241-260] of 289 Learning quotesLearning QuotesLearning Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes There is a lurking fear that some things are not meant “to be known,” that some inquiries are too dangerous for human beings to make.~ Carl Sagan The wisest mind has something yet to learn.~ George Santayana Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.~ George Santayana Only the dead have seen the end of war.~ George Santayana Can we truly expect those who aim to exploit us to be trusted to educate us?~ Eric Schaub Some truths need to be learned from the inside.~ Eric Schaub The more I truly learn, I realize the less I truly know.~ Eric Schaub The net poses a fundamental threat not only to the authority of the government, but to all authority, because it permits people to organize, think, and influence one another without any institutional supervision whatsoever.~ John Seabrook As long as you live, keep learning how to live.~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca If one doesn't know his mistakes, he won't want to correct them.~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca That is why we give to children a proverb, or that which the Greeks call Chreia, to be learned by heart; that sort of thing can be comprehended by the young mind, which cannot as yet hold more. For a man, however, whose progress is definite, to chase after choice extracts and to prop his weakness by the best known and the briefest sayings and to depend upon his memory, is disgraceful; it is time for him to lean on himself. He should make such maxims and not memorize them. For it is disgraceful even for an old man, or one who has sighted old age, to have a note-book knowledge. "This is what Zeno said." But what have you yourself said? "This is the opinion of Cleanthes." But what is your own opinion? How long shall you march under another man's orders? Take command, and utter some word which posterity will remember. Put forth something from your own stock.~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca What then? Shall I not follow in the footsteps of my predecessors? I shall indeed use the old road, but if I find one that makes a shorter cut and is smoother to travel, I shall open the new road. Men who have made these discoveries before us are not our masters, but our guides. Truth lies open for all; it has not yet been monopolized. And there is plenty of it left even for posterity to discover.~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca Withdraw into yourself, as far as you can. Associate with those who will make a better man of you. Welcome those whom you yourself can improve. The process is mutual; for men learn while they teach.~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca Our lack of constant awareness has also permitted us to accept definitions of freedom that are not necessarily consistent with the actuality of being free. Because we have learned to confuse the word with the reality the word seeks to describe, our vocabulary has become riddled with distorted and contradictory meanings smuggled into the language.~ Butler D. Shaffer It is time to admit that public education operates like a planned economy. It's a bureaucratic system where everybody's role is spelled out in advance, and there are few incentives for innovation and productivity. It's not a surprise when a school system doesn't improve. It more resembles a Communist economy than our own market economy.~ Albert Shanker Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.~ George Bernard Shaw Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.~ George Bernard Shaw Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.~ Lillian Smith In 100 years we have gone from teaching Latin and Greek in high school to teaching Remedial English in college.~ Joseph Sobran Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print