Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [141-160] of 289 Learning quotesLearning QuotesLearning Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes If we cannot learn, if the only effect upon us of the presence of the dynamiter in our midst is to make us multiply punishments, invent restrictions, increase the number of our official spies, forbid public meetings, interfere with the press, put up gratings -- as in one country they propose to do -- in our House of Commons, scrutinize visitors under official microscopes, request them, as at Vienna, and I think now at Paris also, to be good enough to leave their greatcoats in the vestibules ... I venture to prophesy that there lies before us a bitter and an evil time.~ Auberon Herbert Wisdom is not communicable. The wisdom which a wise man tries to communicate always sounds foolish.~ Herman Hesse In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.~ Eric Hoffer The central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people. The truly human society is a learning society, where grandparents, parents, and children are students together.~ Eric Hoffer There can be no freedom without freedom to fail.~ Eric Hoffer Once the mind has been stretched by a new idea, it will never again return to its original size.~ Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.~ Horace All children behave as well as they are treated.~ Jan Hunt That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.~ Aldous Huxley Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.~ Aldous Huxley Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.~ Thomas Henry Huxley Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.~ Thomas Henry Huxley Together we have come to realize that for most men the right to learn is curtailed by the obligation to attend school.~ Ivan Illich There is no slavery but ignorance. Liberty is the child of intelligence.~ Robert G. Ingersoll It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.~ Eugene Ionesco History does not move by leaps into unrelated novelty, but rather by the selective emphasis of aspects of its own immediate past.~ Julian Jaynes Above all things I hope the education of the common people will be attended to, convinced that on their good sense we may rely with the most security for the preservation of a due degree of liberty.~ Thomas Jefferson Our legislators are not sufficiently appraised of the rightful limits of their power; that their true office is to declare and enforce our natural rights and duties, and to take none of them from us. No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another; and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him; every man is under the natural duty of contributing to the necessities of the society; and this is all the laws should enforce on him; and, no man having the right to be the judge between himself and another, it is his natural duty to submit to the umpirage of an impartial third [party]. When the laws have declared and enforced all this, they have fulfilled their functions; and the idea is quite unfounded, that on entering into society we give up any natural right.~ Thomas Jefferson I am not fully informed of the practices at Harvard, but there is one from which we shall certainly vary, although it has been copied, I believe, by nearly every college and academy in the United States. That is, the holding the students all to one prescribed course of reading, and disallowing exclusive application to those branches only which are to qualify them for the particular vocations to which they are destined. We shall, on the contrary, allow them uncontrolled choice in the lectures they shall choose to attend, and require elementary qualification only, and sufficient age.~ Thomas Jefferson I have often thought that nothing would do more extensive good at small expense than the establishment of a small circulating library in every county, to consist of a few well-chosen books, to be lent to the people of the country under regulations as would secure their safe return in due time.~ Thomas Jefferson Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print