In wildness is the preservation of the world.
Henry David ThoreauThe true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.
Isaac AsimovWhat is a farm but a mute gospel?
Ralph Waldo EmersonYou have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.
George Bernard ShawThere is always another way to say the same thing that doesn’t look at all like the way you said it before. I don’t know what the reason for this is. I think it is somehow a representation of the simplicity of nature.
Richard P. FeynmanEvery three months, I’ll say, ‚Honey, I think I should learn how to cook‘.
Angelina JolieNature hath framed strange fellows in her time.
William Shakespeare‚Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree’s inclined.
Alexander PopeI became a people-watcher when I lost all my friends when I was 12.
Taylor SwiftYou learn a lot from traveling around.
AuroraToo much of what is called ‚education‘ is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.
Thomas SowellThere are no such things as Flowers there are only gladdened Leaves.
John RuskinNature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.
Henry David ThoreauThere are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
Colin PowellEmploy your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
SocratesYou shall, I question not, find a way to the top if you diligently seek for it; for nature hath placed nothing so high that it is out of the reach of industry and valor.
Alexander the GreatExperience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
Benjamin FranklinWho questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.
Francis BaconLook at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!
ConfuciusI was a housewife, so I learned to write in times off, and I don’t think I ever gave it up, though there were times when I was very discouraged because I began to see that the stories I was writing were not very good, that I had a lot to learn, and that it was a much, much harder job than I had expected.
Alice MunroIf a subject excites us, if it stirs our deepest curiosity, or if we have to learn because the stakes are high, we pay much more attention. What we absorb sinks in.
Robert GreeneIt was morning; through the high window I saw the pure, bright blue of the sky as it hovered cheerfully over the long roofs of the neighboring houses. It too seemed full of joy, as if it had special plans, and had put on its finest clothes for the occasion.
Hermann HesseThere are more men ennobled by study than by nature.
Marcus Tullius CiceroYou can’t learn in school what the world is going to do next year.
Henry FordWhen I came to Delhi and noticed an insider view, I felt what it was, and I was surprised to see it. It seemed as if dozens of separate governments are running at the same time in one main government. It appeared that everyone has its own fiefdom.
Narendra ModiEverybody looks like clones and the only people you notice are my age. I don’t notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70.
Vivienne WestwoodA true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation.
Joseph AddisonMost of us believe, or should believe, that every child can learn, given the opportunity, but try substitute teaching just once and you will see firsthand the socioeconomic issues that distract our kids from taking advantage of that opportunity.
John KennedyThe rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.
PlatoAnd this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
William ShakespeareThe world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.
E. E. CummingsAny action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it’s no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing.
Eckhart TolleSo comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their ending!
J. R. R. TolkienAll knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part.
Leonardo da VinciKnowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.
Hermann HesseAll writers are going to have to learn more about science, because it’s such an interesting part of their environment.
Kurt VonnegutThe history of science shows that theories are perishable. With every new truth that is revealed we get a better understanding of Nature and our conceptions and views are modified.
Nikola TeslaWe learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
George Bernard ShawI actually don’t read most of the coverage about Facebook. I try to learn from getting input from people who use our services directly more than from pundits.
Mark ZuckerbergAn investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
Benjamin FranklinNo man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.
Samuel JohnsonMistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.
Carl JungToo often we act – ask our schools to be truant officers, our teachers to be truant officers, because we’re giving them children who have, you know, they’re not ready to learn. And if they’re not ready to learn by the third grade, they know they’re behind.
Colin PowellI got to Africa. I got the opportunity to go and learn, not about any animal, but chimpanzees. I was living in my dream world, the forest in Gombe National Park in Tanzania. It was Tanganyika when I began.
Jane GoodallWorking with a guy like Ice Cube on ‚Ride Along,‘ you learn so much. He’s a guy who produces, writes, and directs, so you watch and learn and ask questions. As you go, you learn and figure out what you should and shouldn’t do. I do nothing but soak up information.
Kevin HartThe eye sees what it brings the power to see.
Thomas CarlyleWhen you learn about the teaching and the practice of another tradition, you always have a chance to understand your own teaching and practice.
Thich Nhat HanhLove is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.
VoltaireIf we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?
Albert EinsteinWhat we call Man’s power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.
C. S. LewisTell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
Benjamin FranklinEducation is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination.
Thomas SowellIt is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
Edmund BurkeI love the sea.
A. P. J. Abdul KalamIt is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.
Marcus Tullius CiceroDon’t just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.
Jim RohnI walk every day, and I look at the mountains and the fields and the small city, and I say: ‚Oh my God, what a blessing.‘ Then you realise it’s important to put it in a context beyond this woman, this man, this city, this country, this universe.
Paulo CoelhoGod Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.
Francis BaconThere are many things that I don’t understand.
Billy GrahamWhen you read, I’m sure you don’t realize that your eyes are going backwards and forwards and to this place and that place. Mine don’t do that.
Terry Pratchett