Quotes by category:Learning

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who i... by Henry David Thoreau

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.

Henry David Thoreau

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It is the studying that you do after your school days that really counts. Otherwise, you know only that which everyone else knows.

Henry Latham Doherty

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The way to learn to do things is to do things. The way to learn a trade is to work at it. Success teaches how to succeed. Begin with the determination to succeed, and the work is half done already.

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Compared to gardeners, I think it is generally agreed that others understand very little about anything of consequence.

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An enterprise is a community of human beings, not a collection of... by Henry Mintzberg

An enterprise is a community of human beings, not a collection of "human resources".

Henry Mintzberg

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Arrogance, pedantry, and dogmatism...the occupational diseases of those who spend their lives directing the intellects of the young.

Henry Seidel Canby

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By ignorance the truth is known. by Henry Suso

By ignorance the truth is known.

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Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.

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I soon found out you can't change the world. The best you can do... by Henry Miller

I soon found out you can't change the world. The best you can do is to learn to live with it.

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Ideas are, in truth, force. by Henry James

Ideas are, in truth, force.

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A great way to learn about your country is to leave it. by Henry Rollins

A great way to learn about your country is to leave it.

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It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know. by Henry David Thoreau

It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.

Henry David Thoreau

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Learning results from what the student does and thinks, and only from what the student does and thinks. The teacher can advance learning only by influencing the student to learn.

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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action. by Herbert Spencer

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

Herbert Spencer

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Attaching significance to invariants is an effort to recognize what, because of its form or colour or meaning or otherwise, is important or significant in what is only trivial or ephemeral. A simple instance of failing in this is provided by the poll-man at Cambridge, who learned perfectly how to factorize a^2 - b^2 but was floored because the examiner unkindly asked for the factors of p^2 - q^2.

Herbert Turnbull

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The average man takes life as a trouble. He is in a chronic state of irritation at the whole performance. He does not learn to differentiate between troubles and difficulties, usually, until some real trouble bowls him over. He fusses about pin-pricks until a mule kicks him. Then he learns the difference.

Herbert Newton Casson

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Let us then be up and doing, With a heart for any fate, Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Mathematics is a language. We want scientists to be able to read it, speak it, and write it. But we are are not training them to be grammarians.

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A light has dawned for me: I need companions, living ones, not dead companions and corpses which I carry with me wherever I wish. But I need living companions who follow me because they want to follow themselves- and who want to go where I want to go.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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We ought to learn from the kine one thing: ruminating. by Friedrich Nietzsche

We ought to learn from the kine one thing: ruminating.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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