Quotes by Subject: Education & Experience
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Knowledge is power. | |||
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of childhood into maturity. | |||
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. | |||
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. | |||
As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do. | |||
For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them. | |||
Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose. | |||
To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge. | |||
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. | |||
Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out. | |||
What does not destroy me, makes me stronger. | |||
Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment. | |||
Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes. | |||
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. | |||
To see things in the seed, that is genius. | |||
Nothing can be done at once hastily and prudently. | |||
The education of a man is never complete until he dies. | |||
It's the tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know - and the less a man knows, the more sure he is that he knows everything. | |||
Education: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the fool their lack of understanding. | |||
For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is. | |||
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. | |||
He who knows others is wise; / He knows himself is enlightened. | |||
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. | |||
Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught. | |||
These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future. | |||
That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way. | |||
Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own. | |||
If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. | * | ||
Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten. | |||
In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra. | |||
An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child. | |||
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. | |||
An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes than can be made in a very narrow field. | |||
The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit. | * | ||
The more opinions you have, the less you see. | * | ||
Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him. | |||
Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level. | |||
We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education. | |||
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties. | |||
I am not a teacher but an awakener. | * | ||
I listen to everybody and take notes. Particulary salesmen. They get close to people. | |||
For 'tis the mind that makes the body rich. (Taming of the Shrew) | |||
He who can, does. He who cannot teaches. | |||
We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience. | |||
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing. | |||
Pressure is what you feel when you don't know what's going on. | |||
Every artist was first an amateur. | |||
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognise a mistake when you make it again. | * | ||
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books. | |||
Those who can, do. Those we can?t, teach. | |||
There are moments when everything goes well, but don?t be frightened, it won?t last. | |||
If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we would all be millionaires. | |||
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. | |||
The multitude of books is making us ignorant. | * | ||
He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches. | |||
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated. | |||
Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it. | * | ||
Hindsight is always twenty-twenty. | |||
Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog. | |||
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. | * | ||
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education. | |||
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, it expects what never was and never shall be. | * | ||
An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex. | |||
Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk. | |||
Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see. | * | ||
If we begin with certainties, we shall end in doubts; but if we begin with doubts, and we are patient in them, we shall end in certainties. | |||
We must not believe the many, who say that only free people ought to be educated, but we should rather believe the philosophers who say that only the educated are free. | * | ||
Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth. | |||
Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth. | |||
The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead. | |||
A short saying oft contains much wisdom. | |||
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. | |||
Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well. | |||
You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil. | |||
My education was dismal. I went to a series of schools for mentally disturbed teachers. | * | ||
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. | |||
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. | |||
I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic. | |||
The least of learning is done in the classrooms. | |||
Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger. | |||
Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives. | |||
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students. | |||
Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago. | * | ||
Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind. | |||
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