Quotes by Learning Learning is a process not an event. Elliott Masie learningeventsprocess We have heard enough about being practical and efficient and prudent. We heard it preached through several decades that these things would save the world. I think that, with the salty taste of blood and sweat on our lips, we are learning that we had best talk once again about doing what is right. Ellis Arnall learningbloodthinking It takes courage to be creative. Just as soon as you have a new idea, you are in a minority of one. Ellis Paul Torrance learningcourageideas We are learning, too, that the love of beauty is one of Nature's greatest healers. Ellsworth Huntington learningnaturebeauty The most intelligent inspection of any number of fine paintings will not make the observer a painter, nor will listening to a number of operas make the hearer a musician, but good judges of music and painting may so be formed. Chess differs from these. The intelligent perusal of fine games cannot fail to make the reader a better player and a better judge of the play of others. Emanuel Lasker learningintelligentplayer In order to be big, you have to think big. Emeril Lagasse learninginspirationalthinking love of learning is the most necessary passion ... in it lies our happiness. It's a sure remedy for what ails us, an unending source of pleasure. Emilie du Chatelet passionlearninglying You can stay young as long as you learn. Emily Dickinson learningmotivationalinspirational The brain is wider than the sky. Emily Dickinson learningskyinspirational More important than learning how to recall things is finding ways to forget things that are cluttering the mind. Eric Butterworth learningimportantmind What is the first business of one who practices philosophy? To get rid of self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows. Epictetus learningbusinessphilosophy I loved learning, it was school I hated. I used to cut school to go learn something. Eric Jensen learningcuttingschool What is learned without pleasure is forgotten without remorse. Epictetus pleasurelearningforgotten Lecture is the transfer of the notes of the lecturer to the notes of the student without passing through either. Eric Mazur lectureslearningknowledge Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow (e.g., given a large enough beta-tester and co-developer base, almost every problem will be characterized quickly and the fix obvious to someone). Eric S. Raymond bugslearningproblem Ugly programs are like ugly suspension bridges: they're much more liable to collapse than pretty ones, because the way humans (especially engineer-humans) perceive beauty is intimately related to our ability to process and understand complexity. A language that makes it hard to write elegant code makes it hard to write good code. Eric S. Raymond learningbridgeswriting We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free; but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free. Epictetus creditlearninggiving Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains, except kill it. Erich Fromm learningtimeknowledge It is no longer enough to simply read and write. Students must also become literate in the understanding of visual images. Our children must learn how to spot a stereotype, isolate a social cliche, and distinguish facts from propaganda, analysis from banter and important news from coverage. Ernest L. Boyer learningwritingchildren There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and because it takes a man's life to know them the little that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave. Ernest Hemingway learningtimelife«2728293031323334353637»
