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[Quote No.55485] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"It was a saying of the ancients, 'Truth lies in a well'; and to carry on this metaphor, we may justly say that logic does supply us with steps, whereby we may go down to reach the water." - Isaac Watts
(1674 - 1748)
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[Quote No.55486] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Instructors should not only be skilful in those sciences which they teach, but have skill in the method of teaching, and patience in the practice." - Isaac Watts
(1674 - 1748)
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[Quote No.55490] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"There is no such thing as a failed experiment, only experiments with unexpected outcomes." - Buckminster Fuller
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[Quote No.55491] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"The more we learn the more we realize how little we know." - Buckminster Fuller
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[Quote No.55529] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"From Brahma to a blade of grass all things are my Gurus [teachers]." - Kaula Tantric Precept
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[Quote No.55539] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid!" - Thomas a Kempis
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[Quote No.55551] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"The first flash of insight which persuades human beings to change their basic assumptions is usually contained in a few phrases [quotes, maxims, etc]." - Kenneth Clark
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[Quote No.55553] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Whether called an insight, epiphany, revelation, or flash of intuitive understanding, almost all people have had the experience of suddenly seeing an aspect of their functioning a totally new way -- often in a way that feels freeing or liberating. It doesn't happen very often, but when it does, it often helps us get 'unstuck' from an established, and not particularly productive, pattern." - Dr. Mardy Grothe
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[Quote No.55554] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"It is true that insights may come to us as flashes. It is true that some of these flashes may be blinding. It is, however, also true that such bright ideas are preceded by a gestation period that is interior, murky, and completely necessary." - Julia Cameron
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[Quote No.55555] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience." - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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[Quote No.55561] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"[Learning:] Neuroplasticity is the property of the brain that enables it to change its own structure and functioning in response to activity and mental experience.
" - Dr. Norman Doidge
Quote from his book, 'The Brain's Way of Healing: Remarkable Discoveries and Recoveries from the Frontiers of Neuroplasticity'.
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[Quote No.55563] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"After the initial critical learning period of youth is over, the areas of the brain that need to be 'turned on' to allow enhanced, long lasting learning [including associative memorizing] can only be activated when something important, surprising, or novel occurs, or if we make the effort to pay close attention [and focus intently]." - Dr. Norman Doidge
Author of the book, ‘The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science'.
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[Quote No.55565] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"One reason we can change our brains simply by imagining is that, from a neuroscientific point of view, imagining an act and doing it are not as different as they sound. When people close their eyes and visualize a simple object, such as the letter a, the primary visual cortex lights up, just as it would if the subjects were actually looking at the letter a. Brain scans show that in action and imagination many of the same parts of the brain are activated. That is why visualizing can improve performance. ...imagining an act engages the same motor and sensory programs that are involved in doing it. We have long viewed our imaginative life with a kind of sacred awe: as noble, pure, immaterial, and ethereal, cut off from our material brain. Now we cannot be so sure about where to draw the line between them. Everything your 'immaterial' mind imagines leaves material traces. Each thought alters the physical state of your brain synapses at a microscopic level. Each time you imagine moving your fingers across the keys to play the piano, you alter the tendrils in your living brain." - Dr. Norman Doidge
Quote from his book, ‘The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science’.
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[Quote No.55617] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"[Skepticism is required to discover truth and grow wiser because...] For the most part we inherit our opinions. We are the heirs of habits and mental customs. Our beliefs, like the fashion of our garments, depend on where we were born. We are molded and fashioned by our surroundings." - Robert Green Ingersoll
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[Quote No.55619] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Habits are at first cobwebs, then cables!" - Spanish Proverb
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[Quote No.55665] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"[Autodidactic: All women and] All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education." - Walter Scott
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[Quote No.55667] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"[Autodidactic:] Libraries raised me. ...When I graduated from high school, it was during the depression and we had no money. I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years." - Ray Bradbury
Famous writer. Some of his science-fiction stories have become classics, notably 'The Martian Chronicles' (1950), 'The Illustrated Man' (1951), and 'Fahrenheit 451' (1953). He also achieved success as a screenwriter ('Moby Dick' in 1956, with John Houston), a poet, a detective writer, and a children's author.
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[Quote No.55680] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"[Be skeptical in order to find truth and the level of its reliability:] Beware of false knowledge, its is more dangerous than ignorance [as it inspires unjustified thoughts and actions]." - George Bernard Shaw
(1856-1950) Irish author and playwright.
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[Quote No.55685] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Knowledge - the wings wherewith we fly to heaven!" - Saying
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[Quote No.55687] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"[Invest in knowledge, wisdom and understanding:] A dollar put into a book and a book mastered might change the whole course of a boy's life. It might easily be the beginning of the development of leadership that would carry the boy far in service to his fellow men." - Henry Ford
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[Quote No.55702] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"[Skepticism of authority, custom, popularity and others' esteem are necessary in the search for Truth:] There are in fact four very significant stumbling blocks in the way of grasping the truth, which hinder every man however learned, and scarcely allow anyone to win a clear title to wisdom, namely, the example of weak and unworthy authority, longstanding custom, the feeling of the ignorant crowd, and the hiding of our own ignorance
while making a display of our apparent knowledge." - Roger Bacon
(1220-1292). Source: 'Opus Majus', 1266-67.
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[Quote No.55703] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"[Freedom of thought, speech, expression and press versus censorship and propaganda:] Freedom of the mind requires not only, or not even especially, the absence of legal constraints but the presence of alternative thoughts. The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity, but the one that removes awareness of other possibilities." - Alan Bloom
(1930-1992). Source: 'The Closing of the American Mind', 1987.
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[Quote No.55732] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it! To remain in touch with the past requires a love of memory. To remain in touch with the past requires a constant imaginative effort." - Gaston Bachelard
(1884 - 1962)
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[Quote No.55736] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"[The value of skepticism:] Skepticism - which encompasses the ideas of critical thinking, doubt and proof by the scientific method, and thinking and discussion that is logical, rational, objective, justifiable, honest, etc - is necessary for true, individual freedom, which by definition must be based on fully informed choice, voluntarily made without fraud or force." - Seymour@imagi-natives.com
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[Quote No.55744] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Phi Beta Kappa (ΦΒΚ) stands for Φιλοσοφία Βίου Κυβερνήτης or in Latin letters Philosophia Biou Cybernētēs, which means 'Love of learning is the guide of life'." - Phi Beta Kappa Society
The Phi Beta Kappa Society is the oldest honor society for the liberal arts and sciences, with 283 active chapters in the United States. Widely considered to be the nation's most prestigious honor society, Phi Beta Kappa aims to promote and advocate excellence in the liberal arts and sciences and to induct the most outstanding students of arts and sciences at American colleges and universities. Founded at The College of William and Mary on December 5, 1776, as the first collegiate Greek-letter fraternity, it was among the earliest collegiate fraternal societies and remains the oldest existing American academic honor society.
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[Quote No.55780] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -- broad, deep knowledge -- is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heartthrobs of humanity through the centuries." - Helen Keller
(1880 - 1968) American blind/deaf author and lecturer.
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[Quote No.55792] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience [- mine and others']." - Patrick Henry
(1736 - 1799), American politician and prominent figure in the American Revolution.
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[Quote No.55795] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"When patterns are [created or] broken, new worlds emerge.
" - Tuli Kupferberg
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[Quote No.55801] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"[Skepticism, doubt and the search for objective, impersonal Truth rather than subjective, personal truth:] Always question those who are certain of what they are saying." - Elie Wiesel
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[Quote No.55804] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Every man has a right to his own opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts." - Bernard M. Baruch
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[Quote No.55819] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge [wisdom]." - Daniel J. Boorstin
(1914 - 2004)
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[Quote No.55825] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self sustained." - Mahatma Gandhi
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[Quote No.55832] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"An investigator starts research in a new field with faith, a foggy idea, and a few wild experiments. Eventually the interplay of negative and positive results guides the work. By the time the research is completed, he or she knows how it should have been started and conducted. [Life itself is investigation, experiment and research, often with only twenty-twenty hindsight.]" - Donald Cram
(1919 - 2001), American chemist who shared the 1987 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Jean-Marie Lehn and Charles J. Pedersen.
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[Quote No.55834] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"We talk in coaching about 'winners' - kids, and I've had a lot of them, who just will not allow themselves or their team to lose. Coaches call that a will to win. I don't. I think that puts the emphasis in the wrong place. Everybody has a will to win. What's far more important is having the will to prepare to win [i.e. learning, practicing, planning, etc.]!" - Bobby Knight
American basketball coach
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[Quote No.55837] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"It is a trite but true observation that examples work more forcibly on the mind than precepts. And if this be just in what is odious and blameable, it is more strongly so in what is amiable and praiseworthy. Here emulation most effectually operates upon us, and inspires our imitation in an irresistible manner. A good man therefore is a standing lesson to all his acquaintance, and of far greater use in that narrow circle than a good book." - Henry Fielding
Quote from his novel 'Joseph Andrews', published 1742.
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[Quote No.55846] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Discovery, like surprise, favors the well-prepared mind." - Jerome Bruner
Pioneering psychologist
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[Quote No.55847] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"[Skepticism and mental discipline are required to overcome our propensity for self-deception:] That point of self-education which consists in teaching the mind to resist its desires and inclinations, until they are proved to be right, is the most important of all." - Michael Faraday
Famous scientist
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[Quote No.55885] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"If you are interested in something, you will focus on it, and if you focus attention on anything, it is likely that you will become interested in it. Many of the things we find interesting are not so by nature, but because we took the trouble of paying attention to them." - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Quote from his book, 'Flow'.
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[Quote No.55942] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"We each view reality from our own unique [subjective, personal] perspective, only a community of minds can show us the [objective, impersonal] truth." - Timothy Wilken
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[Quote No.55958] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding. For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold. She [wisdom] is more precious than rubies: and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her. Length of days is in her right hand; and in her left hand riches and honour. Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace. She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retaineth her." - Bible
Proverbs 3:13-18
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[Quote No.55962] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Failure is not 'mere' failure. It is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
" - John Dewey
Quote from his book, 'How We Think', 1933
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[Quote No.55964] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Virtually nothing comes out right the first time. Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement!
" - Charles F. Kettering
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[Quote No.55977] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"A well-ordered life is like climbing a tower; the view [understanding] halfway up is better than the view [understanding] from the base, and it steadily becomes finer as the horizon [of understanding, knowledge and wisdom] expands.
" - William Lyon Phelps
(1865 - 1943)
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[Quote No.55982] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"[What can it feel like to learn and grow?] Suddenly many movements are going on within me, many things are happening, there is an almost unbearable sense of sprouting, of bursting encasements, of moving kernels, expanding flesh.
" - Meridel Le Sueur
(1900 - 1996)
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[Quote No.55996] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"There is one art of which man should be master, the art of reflection [in order to learn, grow and enjoy the journey of life]." - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(1772 - 1834), poet.
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[Quote No.56006] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"[Freedom of thought, speech, expression and press versus censorship and propaganda: be curious and skeptical:] Think for yourself and question authority." - Timothy Leary
(1920-1996), psychologist and writer.
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[Quote No.56009] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"...poems [quotes, proverbs, etc.,] are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something as necessary as bread in the pockets of the hungry!" - Mary Oliver
American poet who has won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. The New York Times described her as 'far and away, this country's best-selling poet'. This is a quote from her book, 'A Poetry Handbook', published 1994.
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[Quote No.56017] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"[Be skeptical until given enough proof: More often than not] Those who are certain are demonstrating their personality type, or their belief system, not the state of their knowledge." - Michael Crichton
(1942 - 2008)
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[Quote No.56018] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"[Be skeptical until given enough proof:] Do you know what we call opinion in the absence of evidence? We call it prejudice." - Michael Crichton
(1942 - 2008)
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[Quote No.56030] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"The strongest oak tree of the forest is not the one that is protected from the storm and hidden from the sun. It's the one that stands in the open where it is compelled to struggle [experiment and learn] for its existence against the winds and rains and the scorching sun. [With the challenges - including failures - providing the necessity to learn, guidance is more readily sought and gratefully absorbed.]" - Napoleon Hill
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