Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [61-80] of 289 Learning quotesLearning QuotesLearning Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes By freethinking I mean the use of the understanding in endeavoring to find out the meaning of any proposition whatsoever, in considering the nature of the evidence for or against, and in judging of it according to the seeming force or weakness of the evidence.~ Anthony Collins Tell me and I forget. Show me and I remember. Let me do and I understand.~ Confucius If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.~ Confucius By nature men are pretty much alike; it is learning and practice that set them apart.~ Confucius Of all the inanimate objects, of all men’s creations, books are the nearest to us, for they contain our very thoughts, our ambitions, our indignations, our illusions, our fidelity to truth, and our persistent leaning toward error.~ Joseph Conrad Finally we shall place the Sun himself at the center of the Universe. All this is suggested by the systematic procession of events and the harmony of the whole Universe, if only we face the facts, as they say, `with both eyes open'.~ Copernicus I've over-educated myself in all the things I shouldn't have known.~ Noel Coward We don't know who discovered water, but we are certain it wasn't a fish.~ John Culkin He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning.~ Danish Proverb False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for everyone takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness; and when this is done, one path towards error is closed and the road to truth is often at the same time opened.~ Charles Darwin The school as a means of education to me was simply a blank.~ Charles Darwin Government schools can't teach reading, writing, and arithmetic -- why should we trust them to teach morality, respect, and character? If public education does for ethics what it's done for learning, we'll end up with a generation of immoral, disrespectful, and characterless students.~ Steve Dasbach There is in human affairs one order which is best. That order is not always the one which exists; but it is the order which should exist for the greatest good of humanity. God knows, it and will it: man's duty it is to discover and establish it.~ Emile Louis Victor de Laveleye It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man's oration -- nay, it is a very easy matter; but to produce a better in its place is a work extremely troublesome.~ Michel De Montaigne I quote others only the better to express myself.~ Michel De Montaigne People haven't time to learn anything. They buy things ready-made in stores. But since there are no stores where you can buy friends, people no longer have friends.~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry There's nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear.~ Daniel Dennett We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.~ Max DePree Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.~ Rene Descartes Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open.~ Sir James Dewar Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print