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[Quote No.45816] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Imagination is ...the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention aand innovation. ...Unlike any other creature on this planet, humans can learn and understand, without having experienced." - J.K. Rowling
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[Quote No.45827] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research." - Albert Einstein
'On Cosmic Religion and Other Opinions and Aphorisms'
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[Quote No.45838] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"There will always be something left to know, something to excite the imagination of the poet and those attuned to the great world in which they live." - Robert Frost
'Interviews With Robert Frost', p. 64.
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[Quote No.45839] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Imagination though it cannot wipe out the sting of remorse can instruct the mind in its proper uses." - William Carlos Williams
'Kora in Hell'
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[Quote No.45860] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Science is not a collection of facts. Nor is science something that happens in the laboratory. Science happens in the head. It's a flight of imagination beyond the constraints of ordinary perception [corroborated by experiment, logic and reason]." - Chet Raymo
American physicist, naturalist, science writer and teacher.
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[Quote No.45864] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"The Imagination merely enables us to wander into the darkness of the unknown where, by the dim light of the knowledge we carry, we may glimpse something that seems of interest. But when we bring it out and examine it more closely it usually proves to be only trash whose glitter had caught our attention. Imagination is at once the source of all hope and inspiration but also of frustration. To forget this is to court despair." - William Ian Beardmore Beveridge
'The Art of Scientific Investigation'
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[Quote No.45865] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"He who lacks imagination lives but half a life. He has his experiences, he has his facts, he has his learning. But do any of these really live unless touched by the magic of the imagination?" - Paul Fenimore Cooper
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[Quote No.45868] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"It is, I admit, mere imagination; but how often is imagination the mother of truth?" - Arthur Conan Doyle
'The Valley of Fear'
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[Quote No.45871] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Wisdom is nothing more than confirmed imagination!" - Criss Jami
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[Quote No.45875] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Whether divine or human, it is precisely the imagination that fashions and recognizes the universe as meaningful, abiding, and valuable, that is to say, as real." - William K. Mahony
'The Artful Universe: An Introduction to the Vedic Religious Imagination'
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[Quote No.45879] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Without imagination we should be lost; for only with its help can we interpret our experience, turn it into experience of an outer world, and thus make use of it in understanding what and where we are, and what we need to do." - Mary Warnock
'Imagination and Time'
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[Quote No.45898] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"I imagine that the intelligent people are the ones so intelligent that they don't even need or want to look 'intelligent' anymore." - Criss Jami
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[Quote No.45908] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Learn From Your Experience:
The essence of wisdom is to have a complete grasp of reality. A wise person knows the probable consequences of a particular course of action. Therefore, someone with experience in a particular is regarded as 'wise' because he has personal knowledge of which actions produce which outcomes. Internalize the knowledge you have obtained from your experience; this will earn you the title, 'a wise person.'
Next time you find yourself in a painful or uncomfortable situation, tell yourself, 'With this experience I am gaining more wisdom.' If your mind ever takes you back to past painful events, view them as your personal 'University of Wisdom.' " - Rabbi Zelig Pliskin
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[Quote No.45917] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"We can let our past [difficulties and failures] beat us or teach us [to be more knowledgeable, competent and realistic]." - Zig Ziglar
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[Quote No.45940] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"A peasant that reads is a prince in waiting." - Walter Mosley
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[Quote No.45962] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"If a nation [or individual] expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it [s/he] expects what never was and never will be." - Thomas Jefferson
(1743-1826), US Founding Father, drafted the Declaration of Independence, 3rd US President. Source: letter to Col. Charles Yancey, January 6, 1816.
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[Quote No.45967] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Philosophy [the love of knowledge] means the complete liberty of the mind, and therefore independence of all social, political or religious prejudice... It loves one thing only... truth." - Henri Frederic Amiel
(1821-1881). Source: Journal, 1873-84.
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[Quote No.45969] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Who shall forbid a wise skepticism, seeing that there is no practical question on which anything more than an approximate solution can be had?" - Ralph Waldo Emerson
(1803-1882). Source: 'Representative Men', 1850.
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[Quote No.45987] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom [experience? - yes; wisdom? - not necessarily]!" - H. L. Mencken
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[Quote No.45989] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Never ignore a gut feeling [intuition], but never believe that it's enough." - Robert Heller
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[Quote No.46002] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"A stumble may prevent a fall [if it teaches you something. Remember when you lose, don't also lose the lesson]." - Thomas Fuller
seventeenth-century English writer
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[Quote No.46009] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"[Failures and mistakes do not have to be all bad, because often...] It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure. [The silver lining in every cloud is there if only you look carefully enough for it!]" - Joseph Campbell
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[Quote No.46012] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"[If you don't learn from the past you are doomed to repeat it and...] You have nobody to blame but yourself if you stumble more than once over the same stump.
" - English Proverb
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[Quote No.46014] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"For most people, wisdom, if it is ever achieved, is achieved only after a thousand stumbles. We learn far more from our failures than from our successes." - Dr. Mardy Grothe
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[Quote No.46025] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Knowledge, like other good things, is difficult, but not impossible." - Bertrand Russell
British philosopher, mathematician, historian, and social critic.
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[Quote No.46043] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Philosophy is thinking really hard about the most important questions and trying to bring analytic clarity both to the questions and the answers." - Marilyn Adams
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[Quote No.46044] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"We find ourselves in a world that we haven’t chosen. There are all sorts of possible ways of interpreting it and finding meaning in the world and in the lives that we live. So philosophy is about making sense of that situation that we find ourselves in." - Clare Carlisle
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[Quote No.46045] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"[A philosopher] is a moral entrepreneur. It’s a nice image. It’s somebody who creates new ways of evaluating things — what’s important, what’s worthwhile — that changes how an entire culture or an entire people understand those things." - Brian Leiter
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[Quote No.46046] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"I think that philosophy in the classical sense is the love of wisdom. So the question then is ‘What is wisdom?’ And I think wisdom is understanding what really matters in the world." - Thomas Pogge
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[Quote No.46047] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Philosophy is reflecting critically on the way things are. That includes reflecting critically on social and political and economic arrangements. It always intimates the possibility that things could be other than they are. And better." - Michael Sandel
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[Quote No.46048] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Mistakes are the best teachers. One does not learn from success. It is desirable to learn vicariously from other people’s failures, but it gets much more firmly seared in when they are your own. [Psychology calls this 'PTG' - Post Traumatic Growth!]" - Mohnish Pabrai
Highly successful value share investor
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[Quote No.46052] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"[Often one of the best ways to learn, grow and evolve is through having a bad experience. Psychology calls this PTG - post traumatic growth.] Post-traumatic growth refers to positive psychological change experienced as a result of the struggle with highly challenging life circumstances. These sets of circumstances represent significant challenges to the adaptive resources of the individual, and pose significant challenges to individuals' way of understanding the world and their place in it. Post traumatic growth is not simply a return to baseline from a period of suffering; instead it is an experience of [learning and] improvement that for some persons is deeply meaningful." - Wikipedia.org
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posttraumatic_growth ]
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[Quote No.46055] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"In pursuing my goals I encountered realities, often in the form of problems, and I had to make decisions. I found that if I [searched for the Truth and] accepted the realities rather than wished that they didn't exist and if I learned how to work with them rather than fight them, I could figure out how to get to my goals. It might take repeated tries, and seeking the input of others, but I could eventually get there. As a result, I have become someone who believes that we need to deeply understand, accept, and work with reality in order to get what we want out of life. Whether it is knowing how people really think and behave when dealing with them, or how things really work on a material level - so that if we do X then Y will happen - understanding reality gives us the power to get what we want out of life, or at least to dramatically improve our odds of success. In other words, I have become a 'hyperrealist'.
When I say I'm a hyperrealist, people sometimes think I don't believe in making dreams happen. This couldn't be further from the truth. In fact, I believe that without pursuing dreams, life is mundane. I am just saying that I believe hyperrealism [the search for Truth] is the best way to choose and achieve one's dreams. The people who really change the world are the ones who see what's possible and figure out how to make that happen. I believe that dreamers who simply imagine things that would be nice but are not possible don't sufficiently appreciate the laws of the universe to understand the true implications of their desires, much less how to achieve them." - Ray Dalio
The founder of Bridgewater Associates - the world's most profitable hedge fund in terms of dollar volume.
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[Quote No.46057] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"[Learn to grow, refine and evolve from challenge, stress and failure. Practice what psychologists call Post Traumatic Growth and philosopher Nassim Nicholas Taleb calls 'antifragility':]
Just as human bones get stronger when subjected to stress and tension, and rumors or riots intensify when someone tries to repress them, many things in life benefit from stress, disorder, volatility, and turmoil...'antifragile' is that category of things that not only gain from chaos but need it in order to survive and flourish...The antifragile is beyond the resilient or robust. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better and better." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Bestselling author of 'The Black Swan' and 'Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder'.
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[Quote No.46063] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Passions weaken, but habits strengthen, with age, and it is the great task of youth to set the current of habit and to form the tastes which are most productive of happiness in life." - William Edward Hartpole Lecky
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[Quote No.46066] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit." - Aristotle
(384 BC - 322 BC) Greek Philosopher
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[Quote No.46080] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"You'll find that education's about the only thing lying around loose in this world, and that it's about the only thing a fellow can have as much of as he's willing to haul away. Everything else is screwed down tight and the screw-driver is lost." - George Horace Lorimer
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[Quote No.46082] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Tradition is a guide and not a jailer." - W. Somerset Maugham
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[Quote No.46102] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"The biggest lesson in life is not to live and learn, but rather to fail and learn." - Dr. Mardy Grothe
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[Quote No.46103] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"'Congratulations! You've Failed!'
One of the modern era's most famous phrases first appeared in 1961 in introductory footage to 'ABC's Wide World of Sports': 'The thrill of victory, the agony of defeat.' That saying so pithily summarized the emotional highs and lows associated with winning and losing that it became an instant classic. It was also a saying that resonated with almost all human beings. For me -- and I'm sure for you -- there is nothing so exhilarating as a thrilling victory, and nothing quite so painful or demoralizing as a crushing defeat.
As I reflect on my life, I've had my share of successes. And when I sit down to recall the most glorious ones, I can visualize many with great clarity, even after decades. The successes were thrilling in their own right, made me feel good about myself, and clearly emboldened me. But I don't think I ever learned much from my triumphs other than, 'Yes, I can!'
I've also had many, many personal and professional failures. And when I think back to some of those low moments, I often feel embarrassed, and occasionally even guilty or ashamed. But the truth is that my greatest learning came during those dark moments in my life, when I was licking my wounds and stumbling around to find an answer for what had just happened.
As a young adult, after reading the biographies of so many people I admired, I began to see that this is a truly common phenomenon. So why is it that people learn so much more from failure than from success?
In large part, it's the flip side of that popular definition of insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. If we succeed and then continue to operate in the same manner, it makes a lot of sense. But what do we learn in the process? Nothing. However, if we fail and continue to behave as we always have, it's not only stupid, but a little crazy. To escape from a self-defeating cycle that spirals downward to oblivion, we must learn or we perish. A primal survival instinct whispers in our ear: 'You can only expect a different result in the future if you start doing something different today.'
The next time you fail, though, I don't expect you to immediately reply, 'Hmmm, I wonder what I can learn from this.' When it happens, go ahead and feel sorry for yourself. If you even want to play the victim role for awhile, go ahead and find somebody else to blame for your problems. But not for too long. After a few days, it is absolutely essential that you begin to ask yourself the question: 'What can I learn from this failure experience if I want a different result in the future?' (and, by the way, that question is one you might even consider posing to some of your closest friends and supporters). There is no other healthy alternative.
As for the other people in your life, the next time a friend or family member fails, I don't expect you to say to them, 'Congratulations! You've failed.' That would be insensitive. So go ahead and express your sympathy for the pain they're feeling, even if you know that they are partially responsible for the fix they're in. But after a short period of time, it might be appropriate to suggest that failure experiences are often great 'teachable moments,' and you might even want to ask them what lessons they've drawn from their recent experience." - Dr. Mardy Grothe
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[Quote No.46104] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Failure is just another way to learn how to do something right." - Marian Wright Edelman
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[Quote No.46105] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Success is ninety-nine percent [learning from] failure." - Soichiro Honda
Founder of Honda Motors
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[Quote No.46106] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success." - Charles F. Kettering
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[Quote No.46107] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true." - John Keats
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[Quote No.46108] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Our business in this world is not to succeed [and thereby have no need to grow], but to continue to fail [as the spur and insight to improvement and a further step along the path to realising our full potential], in good spirits." - Robert Louis Stevenson
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[Quote No.46111] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure [i.e. Often saints are just sinners who learned]. We get very little wisdom from success." - William Saroyan
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[Quote No.46113] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Nothing succeeds like [learning from] failure.
" - Rebecca West
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[Quote No.46115] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"The failure to [learn and force oneself to] change when one's efforts have resulted in failure may be the oldest -- and most intractable -- of all human problems." - Dr. Mardy Grothe
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[Quote No.46178] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret." - Henri Frederic Amiel
Swiss philosopher, poet and critic
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[Quote No.46191] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"The man who believes that the secrets of this world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag him down. The rain will erode the deeds of his life. But that man who sets himself the task of singling out the thread of order from the tapestry will by the decision alone have taken charge of the world and it is only by such taking charge that he will effect a way to dictate the terms of his own fate." - Cormac McCarthy
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