Francis Bacon Quotes, Learning Quotes, Mean Quotes

It is by discourse that men associate, and words are imposed according to the apprehension of the vulgar. And therefore the ill and unfit choice of words wonderfully obsesses the understanding. Nor do the definitions or explanations wherewith in some things learned men are wont to guard and defend themselves, by any means set the matter right. But words plainly force and overrule the understanding, and throw all into confusion, and lead men away into innumerable and inane controversies and fancies.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Francis Bacon Quotes , Learning Quotes , Mean Quotes

This very certain that each man carries in his eye the exact indication of his rank in the immense scale of men, and we are always learning to read it. A complete man should need no auxiliaries to his personal presence.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Learning Quotes , Eye Quotes

Lionel Johnson comes the first to mind, That loved his learning better than mankind, Though courteous to the worst; much falling he Brooded upon sanctity.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Fall Quotes , Learning Quotes

I expect I shall be a student to the end of my days.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Anton Chekhov Quotes , Learning Quotes , Students Quotes

Learning is a kind of natural food for the mind.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Learning Quotes , Mind Quotes

Mathematics deals exclusively with the relations of concepts to each other without consideration of their relation to experience.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Albert Einstein Quotes , Learning Quotes , Science Quotes

Nulla (enim) res tantum ad dicendum proficit, quantum scriptio Nothing so much assists learning as writing down what we wish to remember.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Writing Quotes , Learning Quotes

Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Real Quotes , Learning Quotes

I think it is inevitable that people program poorly. Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Perlis Quotes , Learning Quotes , Technology Quotes

Learning -the kind of ignorance affected by (and affecting) civilized races, as distinguished from ignorance, the sort of learning incurred by savages. See nonsense.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Learning Quotes , Ignorance Quotes

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

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Laozi Quotes , Learning Quotes , Important Quotes

He who remembers from day to day what he has yet to learn, and from month to month what he has learned already, may be said to have a love of learning.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Confucius Quotes , Love Quotes , Learning Quotes

No matter how much we learn, there is always more knowledge to be gained. In this connection I am reminded of a short poem that has been in my mind over the years. It reads as follow: I used to think I knew I knew. But now I must confess. The more I know I know I know I know I know the less.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : A. Ray Olpin Quotes , Learning Quotes , Thinking Quotes

As far as I have seen, at school...they aimed at blotting out one's individuality.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Franz Kafka Quotes , Learning Quotes , School Quotes

Let us then be up and doing, With a heart for any fate, Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Time Quotes , Learning Quotes

Vague and nebulous is the beginning of all things, but not their end.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Khalil Gibran Quotes , Learning Quotes , Ends Quotes

Something the heart must have to cherish, Must love and joy and sorrow learn; Something with passion clasp, or perish And in itself to ashes burn.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Passion Quotes , Learning Quotes

A light has dawned for me: I need companions, living ones, not dead companions and corpses which I carry with me wherever I wish. But I need living companions who follow me because they want to follow themselves- and who want to go where I want to go.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Teacher Quotes , Learning Quotes

The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Education Quotes , Learning Quotes

Things have their roots and branches. Affairs have their beginnings and their ends. To know what is first and what is last will lead one near the Way.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Confucius Quotes , Learning Quotes , Knowledge Quotes