Quotes by category:Learning

Learn everything you possibly can, and you will discover later that none of it was superfluous.

Hugh of Saint Victor

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The function of genius is not to give new answers, but to pose new questions which time and mediocrity can resolve.

Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper

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I learned more about the economy from one South Dakota dust storm that I did in all my years of college.

Hubert H. Humphrey

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No human being, past the thoughtless age of boyhood, will wantonly murder any creature which holds its life by the same tenure that he does.

Henry David Thoreau

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At UCLA I quickly learned the knack of getting grades, a craven surrender to custom, since grades had little to do with learning.

Hugh Nibley

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If we use resources productively and take to heart the lessons learned from coping with the energy crisis, we face a future confronted only, as Pogo, once said, by insurmountable opportunities. The many crises facing us should be seen, then, not as threats, but as chances to remake the future so it serves all beings.

Hunter Lovins

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While nature thus very early and very abundantly feeds us, she is very late in tutoring us as to the proper methodization of our diet.

Herman Melville

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Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes and I am left the same. The more things change the more I am the same. I am what I started with, and when it is all over I will be all that is left of me.

Hugh Prather

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But the great Master said, "I see

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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It is never too late to give up our prejudices.

Henry David Thoreau

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As turning the logs will make a dull fire burn, so change of studies a dull brain.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Data isn't information; information isn't knowledge; knowledge isn't wisdom.

Ian Lowe

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I was determined to know beans.

Henry David Thoreau

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Learning, to be of much use, must have a tendency to spread itself among the common people.

Henry Ward Beecher

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Every Chess master was once a beginner

Irving Chernev

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He is not a true man of science who does not bring some sympathy to his studies, and expect to learn something by behavior as well as by application. It is childish to rest in the discovery of mere coincidences, or of partial and extraneous laws. The study of geometry is a petty and idle exercise of the mind, if it is applied to no larger system than the starry one. Mathematics should be mixed not only with physics but with ethics; that is mixed mathematics. The fact which interests us most is the life of the naturalist. The purest science is still biographical.

Henry David Thoreau

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The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.

Isaac Asimov

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Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. The only function of a school is to make self-education easier; failing that, it does nothing.

Isaac Asimov

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All perception of truth is the detection of an analogy.

Henry David Thoreau

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Quotes by Learning

A charlatan makes obscure what is clear; a thinker makes clear what is obscure.

Learn everything you possibly can, and you will discover later that none of it was superfluous.

The function of genius is not to give new answers, but to pose new questions which time and mediocrity can resolve.

I learned more about the economy from one South Dakota dust storm that I did in all my years of college.

No human being, past the thoughtless age of boyhood, will wantonly murder any creature which holds its life by the same tenure that he does.

At UCLA I quickly learned the knack of getting grades, a craven surrender to custom, since grades had little to do with learning.

While nature thus very early and very abundantly feeds us, she is very late in tutoring us as to the proper methodization of our diet.

Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes and I am left the same. The more things change the more I am the same. I am what I started with, and when it is all over I will be all that is left of me.

But the great Master said, "I see

It is never too late to give up our prejudices.

As turning the logs will make a dull fire burn, so change of studies a dull brain.

Data isn't information; information isn't knowledge; knowledge isn't wisdom.

I was determined to know beans.

Learning, to be of much use, must have a tendency to spread itself among the common people.

Every Chess master was once a beginner

The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.

Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. The only function of a school is to make self-education easier; failing that, it does nothing.

All perception of truth is the detection of an analogy.