Alan Watts Quotes, Learning Quotes, Ignorance Quotes

The greater the scientist, the more he is impressed with his ignorance of reality, and the more he realizes that his laws and labels, descriptions and definitions, are the products of his own thought. They help him to use the world for purposes of his own devising rather than understand and explain it.

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It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English - up to fifty words used in correct context - no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese.

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The brain is wider than the sky.

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Everybody is now so busy teaching that nobody has any time to learn.

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Curiosity has its own reason for existence.

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If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

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Young people at universities study to achieve knowledge and not to learn a trade. We must all learn how to support ourselves, but we must also learn how to live. We need a lot of engineers in the modern world, but we do not want a world of modern engineers.

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We are the hollow men We are the stuffed men Leaning together...

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

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The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

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I gather, young man, that you wish to be a Member of Parliament. The first lesson that you must learn is, when I call for statistics about the rate of infant mortality, what I want is proof that fewer babies died when I was Prime Minister than when anyone else was Prime Minister. That is a political statistic.

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But the great Master said, "I see No best in kind, but in degree; I gave a various gift to each, To charm, to strengthen, and to teach".

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Most wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong: They learn in suffering what they teach in song.

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We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing.

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Learning maketh young men temperate, is the comfort of old age, standing for wealth with poverty, and serving as an ornament to riches.

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. . . learn to value what is important today in the subtle realm rather than what appears desirable tomorrow in the worldly realm.

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R.I.P. A careless abbreviation of "requiescat in pace", attesting to indolent goodwill to the dead. According to the learned Dr. Drigge, however, the letters originally meant nothing more than "reductus in pulvis".

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You don't need fancy highbrow traditions or money to really learn. You just need people with the desire to better themselves.

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Learning teaches how to carry things in suspense, without prejudice, till you resolve it.

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In the particular is contained the universal.

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