Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [41-60] of 289 Learning quotesLearning QuotesLearning Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes ...it's a good idea to review past mistakes before committing new ones.~ Warren Buffett It is well for people who think to change their minds occasionally in order to keep them clean. For those who do not think, it is best at least to rearrange their prejudices once in a while.~ Luther Burbank People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors.~ Edmund Burke Presumably man's spirit should be elevated if he can better review his shady past and analyze more completely and objectively his present problems.~ Vannevar Bush Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.~ Albert Camus An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.~ Albert Camus A false conclusion once arrived at and widely accepted is not easily dislodged and the less it is understood the more tenaciously it is held.~ Georg Cantor The only way to learn is by changing your mind.~ Orson Scott Card It is time for our school systems to stop accepting the gospel of that false religion and start doing their due diligence. Our children should be taught about the demonstrable solar cycles; and the whole human-caused Global Warming theory, along with the Hockey Stick Hoax, should be taught only as another example, after Piltdown Man and pre-Copernican theories of planetary movement, of how science can be corrupted when ideology gets ahead of the data.~ Orson Scott Card It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.~ Gilbert Keith Chesterton The last few decades have been marked by a special cultivation of the romance of the future. We seem to have made up our minds to misunderstand what has happened; and we turn, with a sort of relief, to stating what will happen-which is apparently much easier...The modern mind is forced towards the future by a certain sense of fatigue, not unmixed with terror, with which it regards the past.~ Gilbert Keith Chesterton This is the perpetual and pitiful tragedy of the practical man in practical affairs. He always begins with a flourish of contempt for what he calls theorizing and what people who can do it call thinking. He will not wait for logic--that is, in the most exact sense, he will not listen to reason. It will therefore appear to him an idle and ineffectual proceeding to say that there is a reason for his present failure. Nevertheless, it may be well to say it, and to try and make it clear even to him.~ Gilbert Keith Chesterton What is education? Properly speaking, there is no such thing as education. Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another. Whatever the soul is like, it will have to be passed on somehow, consciously or unconsciously, and that transition may be called education. ... What we need is to have a culture before we hand it down. In other words, it is a truth, however sad and strange, that we cannot give what we have not got, and cannot teach to other people what we do not know ourselves.~ Gilbert Keith Chesterton Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Teach him how to fish and he'll eat forever.~ Chinese Proverb This truth may be unfashionable, unpalatable, no doubt unpopular, but, if it is the truth, the story of mankind shows that war was universal and unceasing for millions of years before armaments were invented or armies organized. Indeed, the lucid intervals of peace and order only occurred in human history after armaments in the hands of strong governments have come into being, and civilization in every age has been nursed only in cradles guarded by superior weapons and superior discipline.~ Winston Churchill The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.~ Winston Churchill To be ignorant of what happened before you were born... is to live the life of a child for ever.~ Marcus Tullius Cicero Gravity is still just a theory, too. Would you like to test it by placing your neck beneath a guillotine?~ Ralph Cicerone For the problem of decision-making in our complicated world is not how to get the problem simple enough so that we can all understand it; the problem is how to get our thinking about the problem as complex as humanly possible--and thus approach (we can never match) the complexity of the real world around us.~ Harlan Cleveland Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print