learning Quotes

The feminists taught us about consciousness-raising.

Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.

It is paradoxical, yet true, to say, that the more we know, the more ignorant we become in the absolute sense, for it is only through enlightenment that we become conscious of our limitations. Precisely one of the most gratifying results of intellectual evolution is the continuous opening up of new and greater prospects.

All knowledge or form conception is evoked through the medium of the eye, either in response to disturbances directly received on the retina or to their fainter secondary effects and reverberations. Other sense organs can only call forth feelings which have no reality of existence and of which no conception can be formed.

There is no memory or retentive faculty based on lasting impression. What we designate as memory is but increased responsiveness to repeated stimuli.

The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.

I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.