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Quotes Pertaining to Learning
"He who learns and learns and
yet does not what he knows, is one who plows and plows yet never sows."
- ancient Persian proverb, quoted by Alfred Korzybski in Science
and Sanity
"If the world has nearly destroyed
itself, it is not from lack of knowledge in the sense that we lack the
knowledge to cure cancer or release atomic energy, but is due to the fact
that the mass of men have not applied to public policy knowledge which
they already possess, which is indeed of almost universal possession, deducible
from the facts of everyday life. If this is true — and it seems inescapable — then no education which consists mainly in the dissemination of "knowledge"
can save us. If men can disregard in their policies the facts they already
know, they can just as easily disregard new facts which they do not at
present know. What is needed is the development in men of that particular
type of skill which will enable them to make social use of knowledge already
in their possession; enable them to apply simple, sometimes self-evident,
truths to the guidance of their common life." — Sir Norman Angell,
1942
"The aim of education is the
condition of suspended judgment on everything." — George Santayana
"If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a 10-foot chain." — Adlai Stevenson
"Teaching and learning that
lead to no significant change in behavior are practically worthless." –
Irving
Lee
"Learning to un-learn to learn,
for me, best describes the process of learning the discipline theoretically
(verbally) and organismically." – M. Kendig
"Learning is the gradual replacement
of fantasy with fact." — Gifford Pinchot
"The trouble with people is
not so much with their ignorance as it is with their knowing so many things
that are not so." — William Alanson White, as quoted by William
D. Hammond in Ecology of the Human Spirit
"You can't no more teach what you ain't learned than you can come from where you ain't been." — Mark Twain, as quoted by Helen Harkness
"There are two ways to slide easily through life: Namely, to believe everything, or to doubt everything; both ways
save us from thinking." — Alfred Korzybski
"A person does what he does
because he sees the world as he sees it." — Alfred Korzybski
"We see the world as 'we' are,
not as 'it' is; because it is the "I" behind the 'eye' that does the seeing."
- Anais Nin
"The real voyage of discovery
consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes." —
Marcel
Proust
"You can't step into the same
river twice." — Heraclitus
"We see what we see because
we miss all the finer details." — Alfred Korzybski
"Human beings do not live in the objective world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily understood, but are very much at the mercy of the particular language which has become the medium of expression for their society. It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of language and that language is merely an incidental means of solving specific problems of communication or reflection. The fact of the matter is that the 'real world' is to a large extent unconsciously built up on the language habits of the group ... We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our community predispose certain choices of interpretation." — Edward Sapir (1929)
"Language plays a tremendous role in human affairs. It serves as a means of cooperation and as a weapon of conflict. With it, men can solve problems, erect the towering structures of science and poetry—and talk themselves into insanity and social confusion." — Irving J. Lee
"As far as the laws of mathematics
refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain,
they do not refer to reality." — Albert Einstein
"The more you do what you've
always done, the more you’ll get what you've always got." — paraphrased
from Einstein
"Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts." — index card tacked to Einstein's office wall
"All our knowledge has its origins
in our perceptions." — Leonardo da Vinci
"To know and not to act is not to know." — attributed to Lao Tse
"The discipline of writing something
down is the first step toward making it happen." - Lee Iaococca
"We should be careful to get
out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it—-and stop there; lest
we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit
down on a hot stove-lid again—-and that is well; but also she will never
sit down on a cold one anymore." — Mark Twain
"You've Got To Be Carefully
Taught", from South Pacific — Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein
You've got to be taught, to hate and fear,
You've got to be taught to be afraid
You've got to be taught, before it's too late,
"Being myself a remarkably stupid fellow, I have had to un-teach myself the difficult, and now beg to present to my fellow fools the parts that aren't hard. Master these thoroughly and the rest will follow. What one fool can do, another can." — Sylvanus P. Thompson, Introduction to Calculus Made Easy
"If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." Sir Isaac Newton
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"Children must be free to think in all directions irrespective of the peculiar ideas of parents who often seal their children's minds with preconceived prejudices and false concepts of past generations. Unless we are very careful, very careful indeed, and very conscientious, there is still great danger that our children may turn out to be the same kind of people we are." — Maj Gen Brock Chisholm, first Director General of the World Health Organization
