Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [121-140] of 289 Learning quotesLearning QuotesLearning Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Growth and mastery come only to those who vigorously self-direct. Initiating, creating, doing, reflecting, freely associating, enjoying privacy—these are precisely what the structures of schooling are set up to prevent, on one pretext or another.~ John Taylor Gatto If others would but reflect on mathematical truths as deeply and as continuously as I have, they would make my discoveries.~ Carl Friedrich Gauss Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.~ A. Bartlett Giamatti Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences.~ Andre Gide Humanity's most valuable assets have been the non-conformists. Were it not for the non-conformists, he who refuses to be satisfied to go along with the continuance of things as they are, and insists upon attempting to find new ways of bettering things, the world would have known little progress, indeed.~ Josiah William Gitt A truly great library contains something in it to offend everyone.~ Jo Godwin Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion.~ William Godwin Some books seem to have been written not to teach us anything, but to let us know that the author has known something.~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Advances are made by answering questions. Discoveries are made by questioning answers.~ Bernhard Haisch Let experience, the least fallible guide of human opinions, be appealed to for an answer to these inquiries.~ Alexander Hamilton All discussion, all debate, all dissidence tends to question and in consequence, to upset existing convictions; that is precisely its purpose and its justification.~ Judge Learned Hand It is largely because civilization enables us constantly to profit from knowledge which we individually do not possess and because each individual's use of his particular knowledge may serve to assist others unknown to him in achieving their ends that men as members of civilized society can pursue their individual ends so much more successfully than they could alone.~ Friedrich August von Hayek Human reason can neither predict nor deliberately shape its own future. Its advances consist in finding out where it has been wrong.~ Friedrich August von Hayek It is only because the majority opinion will always be opposed by some that our knowledge and understanding progress. In the process by which opinion is formed, it is very probable that, by the time any view becomes a majority view, it is no longer the best view: somebody will already have advanced beyond the point which the majority have reached. It is because we do not yet know which of the many competing new opinions will prove itself the best that we wait until it has gained sufficient support.~ Friedrich August von Hayek It is always from a minority acting in ways different from what the majority would prescribe that the majority in the end learns to do better.~ Friedrich August von Hayek Compared with the totality of knowledge which is continually utilized in the evolution of a dynamic civilization, the difference between the knowledge that the wisest and that which the most ignorant individual can deliberately employ is comparatively insignificant.~ Friedrich August von Hayek The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history.~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or knaves.~ Claude-Adrien Helvetius Whosoever wishes to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details. Knowledge is not intelligence. In searching for the truth be ready for the unexpected. Change alone is unchanging. The same road goes both up and down. The beginning of a circle is also its end. Not I, but the world says it: all is one. And yet everything comes in season.~ Heraclitus Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print