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[Quote No.56036] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"[The importance of skepticism:] I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education." - Wilson Mizner
(1876 – 1933) American playwright, raconteur, and entrepreneur.
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[Quote No.56054] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Essentially, all models [analogies, metaphors, etc] are wrong, but some are useful." - George Box
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[Quote No.56060] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"People want to learn to read and understand the book of nature and accommodate those lessons into the comprehensible world.
[...]
Art allows us to explore the universe through a filter of human perceptions and emotions. It examines how our senses access the world and what we can learn from this interaction – highlighting how people participate in and observe the universe around us. Art is very much a function of human beings, giving us a clearer view of our intuitions and how we as people perceive the world. Unlike science, it is not seeking objective truths that transcend human interactions. Art has to do with our physical and emotional responses to the external world, bearing directly on internal experiences, needs, and capacities that science might never reach.
[...]
Science, on the other hand, seeks objective and verifiable truth about the world. It is interested in the elements of which the universe is composed and how those elements interact... Practitioners of science attempt to keep human limitations or prejudices from clouding the picture so that they can trust themselves to obtain an unbiased understanding of reality. They do so with logic and collective observations. Scientists try to objectively figure out how things happen and what underlying physical framework could account for what they observe.
[...]
People's curiosity and the ability to make progress toward satisfying this hunger for information make humanity very special indeed. We are the one species equipped to ask questions and systematically chip away to find the answers. We question, we interact, we communicate, we hypothesize, we make abstractions, and in all of this we end up with a richer view of the universe and our place within." - Lisa Randall
Harvard particle physicist and cosmologist. Quote from her book,'Knocking on Heaven's Door: How Physics and Scientific Thinking Illuminate the Universe and the Modern World'.
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[Quote No.56062] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Finding is reserved for those who search." - Jim Rohn
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[Quote No.56071] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"[Skepticism and freedom of thought, speech, expression and press versus censorship and propaganda:] An unexamined idea, to paraphrase Socrates, is not worth having and a society whose ideas are never explored for possible error may eventually find its foundations insecure." - Mark Van Doren
(1894-1972) Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, professor, and critic. Source: 'Man's Right to Knowledge', 1954.
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[Quote No.56089] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men, who talk in a road, according to the notions they have borrowed and the prejudices of their education." - John Locke
(1632 - 1704)
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[Quote No.56090] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"I think I may say that of all the men we meet with, nine parts of ten are what they are, good or evil, useful or not, by their education." - John Locke
(1632 - 1704)
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[Quote No.56092] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Truth, like gold, is not less so for being newly brought out of the mine. [However truth is often best tested by time and many minds, perspectives and experiences.]" - John Locke
(1632 - 1704)
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[Quote No.56093] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"[The value of skepticism:] The search for objective rather than subjective truth requires doubt, scepticism, asking questions and looking for proof and from that determining the degree of faith, trust and reliability you can put in that information especially when exercising your freedom and making an informed choice. " - Ben O'Grady
Founder and CEO of www.imagi-natives.com
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[Quote No.56094] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Science is the outcome of being prepared to live without certainty and therefore is a mark of maturity. It embraces doubt [scepticism, questions] and loose ends." - A. C. Grayling
Philosopher. Quoted in interview by Tim Adams, 'This much I know: A.C. Grayling', The Observer, 4 Jul 2009.
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[Quote No.56099] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"[The value of skepticism, doubt and questions:] Socrates liked to tease his interlocutors by saying that the only thing he knew was that he knew nothing. There is a deep insight in this, for the one thing that is more dangerous than true ignorance is the illusion of knowledge and understanding. Such illusion abounds, and one of the first tasks of philosophy - as wonderfully demonstrated by Socrates in Plato's Meno - is to explore our claims to know things about ourselves and the world, and to expose them if they are false or muddled." - A. C. (Anthony Clifford) Grayling
Philosopher. [http://www.theguardian.com/books/2001/aug/11/artsandhumanities.highereducation ]
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[Quote No.56110] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Ideas are the cogs that drive history, and understanding them is half way to being aboard that powerful juggernaut rather than under its wheels." - A.C. Grayling
Philosopher. Quote from his book, 'Ideas That Matter: A Personal Guide for the 21st Century: Key Concepts for the 21st'.
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[Quote No.56123] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"[Freedom of thought, speech, expression and press versus censorship and propaganda:] The three most important documents a free society gives are a birth certificate, a passport, and a library card." - E. L. Doctorow
(1931 - 2015)
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[Quote No.56125] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"A constant element of enjoyment must be mingled with our studies, so that we think of learning as a game rather than a form of drudgery, for no activity can be continued for long if it does not to some extent afford pleasure to the participant." - Desiderius Erasmus
(1466 - 1536)
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[Quote No.56147] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Everything that shows up in our lives has something to teach us." - Wayne W. Dyer
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[Quote No.56192] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"[Read and experience widely and stay skeptical:] Traveling through the world produces a marvelous clarity in the judgment of men. We are all of us confined and enclosed within ourselves, and see no farther than the end of our nose. This great world is a mirror where we must see ourselves in order to know ourselves. There are so many different tempers, so many different points of view, judgments, opinions, laws and customs to teach us to judge wisely on our own, and to teach our judgment to recognize its imperfection and natural weakness." - Michel de Montaigne
(1533 - 1592) French writer and philosopher.
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[Quote No.56202] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind." - William Wordsworth
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[Quote No.56206] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"[The importance of skepticism and questioning:] What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out." - William Wordsworth
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[Quote No.56211] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present, to live better in the future." - William Wordsworth
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[Quote No.56224] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Play is an activity enjoyed for its own sake. It is our brain's favorite way of learning and manoeuvring.
" - Diane Ackerman
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[Quote No.56235] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale." - Marie Curie
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[Quote No.56241] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"The proof that you know something is that you are able to teach it." - Aristotle
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[Quote No.56244] 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
This organisation has the mission 'To celebrate and advocate excellence in the liberal arts and sciences'. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phi_Beta_Kappa_Society ]
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[Quote No.56245] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Know or listen to those who know." - Baltasar Gracian
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[Quote No.56248] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"[Freedom of thought, speech, expression and press versus censorship and propaganda:] To silence criticism is to silence freedom." - Sidney Hook
(1902-1989) American, former Marxist philosopher/professor turned Democratic Socialist, CIA operative, recipient of 1985 Presidential Medal of Freedom from Reagan. Source: New York Times Magazine, 30 September 1951.
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[Quote No.56250] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"[Freedom of thought, speech, expression and press versus censorship and propaganda:] No more fatuous chimera has ever infested the brain than that you can control opinions by law or direct belief by statute, and no more
pernicious sentiment ever tormented the heart than the barbarous desire to do so. The field of inquiry should remain open, and the right of debate must be regarded as a sacred right.
" - William E. Borah
(1865-1940) U. S. Senator. Source: 1917.
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[Quote No.56256] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything." - W. Clement Stone
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[Quote No.56260] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Truth is not a numbers game. You can be alone and you can be right." - Hans F. Sennholz
German-born American Austrian School economist who studied under Ludwig von Mises. He was Ludwig von Mises' first PhD student in the United States. He taught economics at Grove City College, 1956-1992, having been hired as department chair upon arrival. After he retired, he became president of [FEE] the Foundation for Economic Education, 1992-1997. 2008 U.S. presidential candidate Ron Paul credits his interest in economics to meeting Sennholz and getting to know him well.
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[Quote No.56261] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"[Stories for teaching and persuasion:] Once having been initiated and begun the spiritual [or other type of] journey, one often comes across difficulties and roadblocks. It is generally at this time that the spiritual [or other type of] guide tells a story [history, analogy or parable] in which the seeker finds similarities between his or her situation and the point of the story. Eventually the seeker learns the proper means of dealing with roadblocks by putting to use what he or she has learned from the story. As a result, stories perform a very subtle yet important function in the training and education of wayfarers on the path. If a teacher were to confront a pupil directly about what was blocking the pupil's progress, the teacher would likely activate the pupil's defense mechanism. The student's ego would be bruised, and the student would tend to argue that his or her actions were justified. Through the use of stories, the teacher ensures that the ego will not be alarmed and that the lessons will penetrate deep into the psyche. Thus, stories can serve to increase mental flexibility. The follower learns to give up his or her own perceptions of how things are or ought to be, and become prepared to receive higher levels of training." - Mohammad Ali Jamnia and Mojdeh Bayat
From their book, ‘Tales from the Land of the Sufis’.
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[Quote No.56287] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"There is no science without fancy [imagination], and no art without facts." - Vladimir Nabokov
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[Quote No.56290] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"[Practical experience:] We move what we're learning from our heads to our hearts through our hands. We are born makers, and creativity is the ultimate act of integration - it is how we fold our experiences into our being... The Asaro tribe of Indonesia and Papua New Guinea has a beautiful saying: 'Knowledge is only a rumor until it lives in the muscle.' " - Brene Brown
American sociologist. From her book, 'Rising Strong'.
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[Quote No.56294] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"[Practical experience:] Action is with the scholar subordinate, but it is essential. Without it, he is not yet man. Without it, thought can never ripen into truth. I do not see how any man can afford, for the sake of his nerves and his nap, to spare any action in which he can partake. It is pearls and rubies to his discourse. Drudgery, calamity, exasperation, want, are instructors in eloquence and wisdom. The true scholar grudges every opportunity of action past by, as a loss of power. It is the raw material out of which the intellect moulds her splendid products. ... He who has put forth his total strength in fit actions, has the richest return of wisdom." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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[Quote No.56297] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Life lies behind us as the quarry from whence we get tiles and copestones for the masonry of to-day." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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[Quote No.56300] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"[The value of skepticism is to determine truth from illusion:] The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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[Quote No.56302] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"In the long period of his preparation, [the true scholar, autodidactic, philosopher, etc] must betray often an ignorance and shiftlessness in popular arts, incurring the disdain of the able who shoulder him aside. Long he must stammer in his speech; often forego the living for the dead. Worse yet, he must accept, - how often! poverty and solitude. For the ease and pleasure of treading the old road, accepting the fashions, the education, the religion of society, he takes the cross of making his own, and, of course, the self-accusation, the faint heart, the frequent uncertainty and loss of time, which are the nettles and tangling vines in the way of the self-relying and self-directed; and the state of virtual hostility in which he seems to stand to society... For all this loss and scorn, what offset? He is to find consolation in exercising the highest functions of human nature. He is one, who raises himself from private considerations, and breathes and lives on public and illustrious thoughts. He is the world's eye. He is the world's heart. He is to resist the vulgar prosperity that retrogrades ever to barbarism, by preserving and communicating heroic sentiments, noble biographies, melodious verse, and the conclusions of history. Whatsoever oracles the human heart, in all emergencies, in all solemn hours, has uttered as its commentary on the world of actions, - these he shall receive and impart." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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[Quote No.56303] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"[Freedom of thought, speech, expression and press versus censorship and propaganda:] Free should the scholar [learner] be... " - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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[Quote No.56319] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't. It's knowing where to go to find out what you need to know, and it's knowing how to use the information once you get it." - William Feather
(1889 - 1981)
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[Quote No.56322] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"[Persistence is required to learn enough to become good at anything:] I did stand-up comedy for eighteen years. Ten of those years were spent learning, four years were spent refining, and four were spent in wild success..." - Steve Martin
From his book, 'Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life'.
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[Quote No.56368] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Life doesn't come with an instruction manual for success...[We have to discover it for ourselves by learning from others' experience and our own 'trial and error'!]" - Harvey Mackay
bestselling author of 'Swim with the Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive'.
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[Quote No.56382] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"[Be aware that other people's opinions, including their criticisms, are often wrong, even those of so-called authorities. For example...] There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home." - Ken Olson
President, Digital Equipment Corp. (1977)
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[Quote No.56384] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"[Be skeptical of our subjective perception of the truth without objective proof because...] We do not see things as they are; we see things as we are." - The Talmud
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[Quote No.56393] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Any darn fool can make something complex; it takes a genius to make something simple!!" - Albert Einstein
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[Quote No.56394] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"The main thing is that everything become simple, easy enough for a child to understand." - Albert Camus
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[Quote No.56399] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity." - Bruce Lee
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[Quote No.56400] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Making the simple complicated is commonplace. Making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity." - Charles Mingus
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[Quote No.56401] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
" - Albert Einstein
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[Quote No.56403] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Simplicity is the ultimate form of sophistication. " - Leonardo da Vinci
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[Quote No.56444] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"Propaganda works ONLY through constant reiteration. It is only in quantity that corrupt values, false perceptions, and bogus facts can be sold. Truth, by contrast... does not need the apparatus of salesmanship [that is constant, persuasive reiteration although it still helps], because reality itself is waiting to confirm it [which is not the case with propaganda]." - Walter Wink
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[Quote No.56448] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"The truth may be stretched thin, but it never breaks, and it always surfaces above lies, as oil floats on water." - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
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[Quote No.56472] Need Area: Mind > Learn
"It is good to rub and polish our brains against that of others." - Michel de Montaigne
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