Browsing Quotes With Tag: learning (16)
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Some will never learn anything because they understand everything too soon.
Speaker: Sir Thomas Pope BlountPosted: 01 Feb 2017 at 7:16 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Behind every great business is an entrepreneur who’s pretty sure she’s screwing up.
Speaker: John JantschPosted: 09 Feb 2014 at 5:35 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
You will find wise men in any religion. And good men in every nation.
Those who truly seek wisdom are those who will acknowledge the virtue in their adversaries and who will learn from those who disabuse them of error. All others are equally closed-minded.Speaker: Brandon SandersonSource: the Way of KingsPosted: 19 Jan 2014 at 12:04 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.
Speaker: Ursula Ke Le GuinSource: the Left Hand of DarknessPosted: 21 Sep 2013 at 6:33 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
Speaker: Dorothy ParkerPosted: 18 Sep 2013 at 12:30 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It’s the questions we can’t answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think. If you give a man an answer, all he gains is a little fact. But give him a question and he’ll look for his own answers.
Speaker: Patrick RothfussSource: the Wise Man's FearPosted: 11 Jul 2011 at 8:03 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
A man may fail many times but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else
Speaker: John BorroughsPosted: 20 Mar 2010 at 5:02 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Absorb what is useful, discard what is not, add what is uniquely your own
Speaker: Bruce LeePosted: 31 Jan 2010 at 9:44 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Speaker: Chinese proverbPosted: 31 Jan 2010 at 9:44 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“My dear friend, have you forgotten that instructive story about Siddhartha, the Brahmin’s son, which you once told me here? Who protected Siddhartha the Samana from Samsara, from sin, greed and folly? Could his father’s piety, his teacher’s exhortations, his own knowledge, his own seeking, protect him? Which father, which teacher, could prevent him from living his own life, from soiling himself with life, from loading himself with sin, from swallowing the bitter drink himself, from finding his own path? Do you think, my dear friend, that anybody is spared this path?”
Speaker: Hermann HesseSource: SiddharthaPosted: 01 Nov 2009 at 6:26 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.
Speaker: Eleanor RooseveltPosted: 20 Mar 2009 at 7:03 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.
Speaker: Albert EinsteinPosted: 18 Mar 2009 at 7:29 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.
Speaker: AristotlePosted: 18 Mar 2009 at 5:41 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
He who has imagination without learning has wings and no feet.
Speaker: Joseph JoubertPosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 1:21 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.
Speaker: Eric HofferPosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 12:48 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.
Speaker: ConfuciusPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 10:01 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment!