Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Quotes for a day of thinking

You have learned something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something. ~H.G. Wells

Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily. ~Thomas Szasz

You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way. ~Marvin Minsky

People learn something every day, and a lot of times it's that what they learned the day before was wrong. ~Bill Vaughan

The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn. ~John Lubbock

“Art is unquestionably one of the purest and highest elements in human happiness. It trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life.” ~John Lubbock

“It's never too late if you put on your skates and go skating...” ~Mary Walsh