Quotes by Learning Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things. Flora Lewis german-languagelearningthinking You can lade a man up to th' university, but ye can't make him think. Finley Peter Dunne learningeducationmen We worship education but hate learning. We worship success but hate the successful. We worship fame but hate the famous. Florence King learninghatesuccessful Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true. Francis Bacon true-friendlearningbelieve People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom. Francis Bacon learninginspirationalthinking Learning hath his infancy, when it is but beginning and almost childish; then his youth, when it is luxuriant and juvenile; then his strength of years, when it is solid and reduced; and lastly his old age, when it waxeth dry and exhaust. Francis Bacon learningageyears More important than the quest for certainty is the quest for clarity. Francois Gautier clarity-of-purposelearninginspirational Who has not been amazed to learn that the function y = ex, like a phoenix rising from its own ashes, is its own derivative? Francois Le Lionnais phoenixlearningeducation St. Francis of Assisi was hoeing his garden when someone asked what he would do if he were suddenly to learn that he would die before sunset that very day. "I would finish hoeing my garden," he replied. Francis of Assisi learninghumorfunny Our most profitable lessons are learned from failure, not success. Frank Davidson failurelearningsuccess Knowledge is more a matter of learning than of the exercise of absolute judgment. Learning requires time, and in time the situation dealt with, as well as the learner, undergoes change. Frank Knight learningeducationknowledge Language is not a genetic gift, it is a social gift. Learning a new language is becoming a member of the club -the community of speakers of that language. Frank Smith clubslearningcommunity Education: free and compulsory - what a way to learn logic! Frank Van Dun logiclearningway For there is a great difference in delivery of the mathematics , which are the most abstracted of knowledges, and policy , which is the most immersed. And howsoever contention hath been moved , touching a uniformity of method in multiformity of matter, yet we see how that opinion, besides the weakness of it, hath been of ill desert towards learning, as that which taketh the way to reduce learning to certain empty and barren generalities; being but the very husks and shells of sciences, all the kernel being forced out and expulsed with the torture and press of the method. Francis Bacon learningscienceknowledge The first indication of a young person's growing smarter is that he no longer understands the things which he used to consider quite intelligible and self-evident. Franz Grillparzer growinglearningself Some people seem to think that good dancers are born, but all the good dancers I have known are taught or trained. Fred Astaire learningdancethinking It is by discourse that men associate, and words are imposed according to the apprehension of the vulgar. And therefore the ill and unfit choice of words wonderfully obsesses the understanding. Nor do the definitions or explanations wherewith in some things learned men are wont to guard and defend themselves, by any means set the matter right. But words plainly force and overrule the understanding, and throw all into confusion, and lead men away into innumerable and inane controversies and fancies. Francis Bacon learningmenmean Successful software always gets changed. Fred Brooks programminglearningsuccessful The hardest part of the software task is arriving at a complete and consistent specification, and much of the essence of building a program is in fact the debugging of the specification. Fred Brooks arrivinglearningessence Scientists build to learn; Engineers learn to build. Fred Brooks programmingscientistlearning«2930313233343536373839»
