Thinking and Learning
"For every problem there is a solution which is simple, obvious, and wrong" --Albert Einstein
"The most important outcome of education is to help students become independent of formal education." --Paul E. Gray
"Learning is finding out what you already know." --Richard Bach
"Those things that hurt, instruct." --Benjamin Franklin.
"You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself" .--Galileo
"You won't learn much about capitalism at a university. How could you? Capitalism is a matter of risks and rewards, and a tenured professor doesn't have much to do with either." -- Pournelle
"The problem with learning from experience is that you get the test before the lesson." -- unknown
"If you think education is expensive, try ignorance." -- Derek Blok
"I don't feel in the least bit humble before the vastness of the heavens. The stars may be large, but they can not think or love; and these are the qualities which impress me far more than size does." -- FP Ramsey
"The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible." --Albert Einstein
"The most merciful thing in the world ... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents." -- H. P. Lovecraft
"A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world's ignorance and press for admission." --Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
"To think is to live." --Cicero
"The mind is like a clock that is constantly running down and must be wound up with daily good thoughts." --Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
"The thinking that we are has brought us to where we have already been. In order to go somewhere else, we must think in a different way." -- Albert Einstein
"There is a fundamental conviction which some people never acquire, some hold only in their youth, and a few hold to the end of their days-- the conviction that IDEAS MATTER. In one's youth that conviction is experienced as a self-evident absolute, and one is unable fully to believe that there are people who do not share it. That ideas matter means that knowledge matters, that truth matters, that one's mind matters. And the radiance of that certainty, in the process of growing up, is the best aspect of youth." -- Ayn Rand
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