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[Quote No.36947] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"All great truths begin as blasphemies." - George Bernard Shaw
(1856 - 1950)
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[Quote No.36948] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas." - George Bernard Shaw
(1856 - 1950)
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[Quote No.36949] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"A man learns to skate by staggering about and making a fool of himself; indeed, he progresses in all things by making a fool of himself." - George Bernard Shaw
(1856 - 1950)
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[Quote No.36999] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Invest in yourself, in your education. There's nothing better." - Sylvia Porter
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[Quote No.37003] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"[Freedom of thought, speech, expression and press versus censorship and propaganda:] A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad." - Albert Camus
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[Quote No.37012] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"There is no new thing under the sun." - Bible
Ecclesiastes 1:9
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[Quote No.37018] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Nothing would be done at all if one waited until one could do it so well that no one could find fault with it." - Cardinal J. Newman
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[Quote No.37024] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"If people only knew how hard I work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all!" - Michelangelo
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[Quote No.37042] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"...the empire of knowledge... all its attainments help to new conquests." - Daniel Webster
(1782 - 1852)
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[Quote No.37049] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Question everything." - Maria Mitchell
(1818 - 1889), She was the first professor hired at Vassar in 1865, and as director of the observatory she was the first woman professional astronomer and the first woman elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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[Quote No.37070] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"The most dangerous of all falsehoods is a slightly distorted truth." - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
(1742-1799), scientist and philosopher.
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[Quote No.37101] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press. [Therefore anything that the press reports should never be taken as completely true until it can be independently corroborrated by other means.]" - Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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[Quote No.37117] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"What then is, generally speaking, the truth of history? A fable agreed upon." - Napoleon Bonaparte
(1769 - 1821)
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[Quote No.37152] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information. [He has learnt what is important to know, how to get it and how to interpret and act on it to achieve his goals! That may be a very good definition of an adequate education.]" - Benjamin Disraeli
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[Quote No.37165] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind." - Samuel Johnson
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[Quote No.37174] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"A curious person who asks questions may be a fool for five minutes; he who never asks questions remains a fool forever." - Vern McLellan
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[Quote No.37176] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough." - Richard P. Feynman
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[Quote No.37201] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation." - Robert H. Schuller
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[Quote No.37239] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college." - Lillian Smith
(1897 - 1966)
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[Quote No.37240] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either." - Marshall McLuhan
(1911 - 1980)
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[Quote No.37241] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking [many] educated people seriously." - Gilbert Keith Chesterton
(1874 - 1936)
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[Quote No.37242] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things - the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit." - Charles Osgood
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[Quote No.37243] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another." - Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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[Quote No.37244] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Education is the great engine of personal development. It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor, that the son of a mineworker can become the head of the mine, that a child of farmworkers can become the president of a great nation." - Nelson Mandela
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[Quote No.37246] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"It has always seemed strange to me that in our endless discussions about education so little stress is laid on the pleasure of becoming an educated person, the enormous interest it adds to life. To be able to be caught up into the world of thought — that is to be educated." - Edith Hamilton
(1867 - 1963)
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[Quote No.37247] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history." - Carl Rowen
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[Quote No.37249] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Success is the study of the obvious. Everyone should take Obvious I and Obvious II in school." - Jim Rohn
(1930 - 2009)
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[Quote No.37250] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Is it too much to expect from the schools that they train their students not only to interpret but to criticize; that is, to discriminate what is sound from error and falsehood, to suspend judgement if they are not convinced, or to judge with reason if they agree or disagree?" - Mortimer J. Adler
(1902 - 2001)
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[Quote No.37260] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"That the freedom of the press
is one of the greatest bulwarks of liberty
and can never be restrained,
except by despotic governments. [Virginia Declaration of Rights 1776]
" - George Mason
Virginia Declaration of Rights 1776
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[Quote No.37267] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Education is not the filling of a bucket, but the lighting of a fire." - William Butler Yeats
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[Quote No.37273] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so." - Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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[Quote No.37282] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"A well-ordered life [and education] is like climbing a tower; the view halfway up is better than the view from the base, and it steadily becomes finer as the horizon expands." - William Lyon Phelps
(1865 - 1943)
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[Quote No.37285] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"History would be a wonderful thing — if it were only true." - Leo Tolstoy
(1828 - 1910)
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[Quote No.37293] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"The heart should have fed upon the truth, as insects on a leaf, till it be tinged with the color, and show its food in every ... minutest fibre." - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(1772 - 1834)
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[Quote No.37311] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book!" - Henry David Thoreau
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[Quote No.37313] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold." - Leo Tostoy
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[Quote No.37317] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep." - Saul Bellow
(1915-2005), writer, Nobel laureate.
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[Quote No.37345] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"A fool think he needs no advice, but a wise man listens to others." - Bible
Proverbs 12:15
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[Quote No.37347] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"By the time your life is finished, you will have learned just enough to begin it well." - Eleanor Marx
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[Quote No.37349] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets." - Michael Korda
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[Quote No.37372] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"The real scientist [and seeker after Truth] is ready to bear privation and, if need be, starvation rather than let anyone dictate to him which direction his work must take." - Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
(1893 - 1986), scientist. He won the Nobel Prize for Physiology in 1937 for identifying the role of Vitamin C in the body.
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[Quote No.37377] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"If written directions alone would suffice, libraries wouldn't need to have the rest of the universities attached." - Judith Martin
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[Quote No.37389] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication." - Leonardo da Vinci
(1452-1519), painter, engineer, musician, and scientist
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[Quote No.37418] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing more to take away." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
(1900 - 1944), French author, poet, and pioneering aviator
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[Quote No.37434] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Scientists are peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity." - Arthur Koestler
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[Quote No.37436] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"I don't know if I practiced more than anybody, but I sure practiced enough. I still wonder if somebody -- somewhere -- was practicing more than me." - Larry Bird
(1956 - ), former American NBA basketball player and coach.
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[Quote No.37441] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow." - Yumus Emre
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[Quote No.37448] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"A belief is not true because it is useful." - Henri-Frederic Amiel
(1821 - 1881)
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[Quote No.37449] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains." - Henri-Frederic Amiel
(1821 - 1881)
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[Quote No.37450] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the unsolved ones." - Abraham Lincoln
(1809 - 1865), US Lawyer and President
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