Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [261-280] of 289 Learning quotesLearning QuotesLearning Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes The Internet…has become the voice of the people in the first genuine experiment in democracy yet conducted in America. It stands ready to serve every facet, every faction.~ Gerry Spence There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is a proof against all argument, and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance – that principle is condemnation before investigation.~ Herbert Spencer Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.~ Dan Stanford The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.~ Saul Steinberg Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them.~ Justice Joseph Story If you shut your door to all errors, truth will be shut out.~ Rabindrnath Tagore I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and to see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.~ Henry David Thoreau The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.~ Alvin Toffler I know that most men -- not only those considered clever, but even those who are very clever and capable of understanding most difficult scientific, mathematical, or philosophic, problems -- can seldom discern even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as obliges them to admit the falsity of conclusions they have formed, perhaps with much difficulty -- conclusions of which they are proud, which they have taught to others, and on which they have built their lives.~ Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoi History does not exist for us until and unless we dig it up, interpret it, and put it together. Then the past comes alive, or, more accurately, it is revealed for what it has always been - a part of the present.~ Frederick W. Turner III Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.~ Mark Twain The capacity to learn is a gift; The ability to learn is a skill; The WILLINGNESS to learn is a choice.~ Unknown Liberty is the hardest test that one can inflict on a people. To know how to be free is not given equally to all men and all nations.~ Paul Valéry The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbors, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.~ Voltaire There are for man only two principles available for a mental grasp of reality, namely, those of teleology and causality. What cannot be brought under either of these categories is absolutely hidden to the human mind. An event not open to an interpretation by one of these two principles is for man inconceivable and mysterious. Change can be conceived as the outcome either of the operation of mechanistic causality or of purposeful behavior; for the human mind there is no third way available.~ Ludwig von Mises To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.~ Marilyn vos Savant Let experience solve it. To listen to mere speculation in such a case were criminal.~ George Washington You know, if you're going to make the next step in a major scientific thing, no one knows how to do it so you have to, in a sense, reject your professors and say, 'They're not getting anywhere, I'm going to try something else.' Crick and I did that at one stage and we're famous practically because we thought that what other people were doing won't get anywhere.~ James D. Watson Men must have the right of choice, even to choose wrong, if he shall ever learn to choose right.~ Josiah C. Wedgwood When choosing between two evils I always like to take the one I've never tried before.~ Mae West Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print