…to learn and not to do is really not to learn. To know and not to do is really not to know.

The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.

The educated don’t get that way by memorizing facts; they get that way by respecting them.

It is possible to become world-class, enter the top 5% of performers in the world, in almost any subject within 6-12 months, or even 6-12 weeks.

Learning how to operate a soul figures to take time.

Thank goodness my education was neglected.

I learned what research was all about as a research student [with] Stoppani … Max Perutz, and … Fred Sanger… From them, I always received an unspoken message which in my imagination I translated as...

If some people came into contact with anything real they would be shocked out of their minds.

The single problem plaguing all students in all schools everywhere is the crisis of disconnection. Meaningful Student Involvement happens when the roles of students are actively re-aligned from being the passive recipients of schools to...

[B]riefing is not reading. In fact it is the antithesis of reading. Briefing is terse, factual and to the point. Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting. Briefing closes down a subject, reading opens it...

They both have in common their conviction that they are still learning, still growing, when in fact they have long ago lost that ability.

University can teach you skill and give you opportunity, but it can’t teach you sense, nor give you understanding. Sense and understanding are produced within one’s soul.

A hero isn’t a hero until he brings the boon back to the tribe.

The home is the first and most effective place to learn the lessons of life: truth, honor, virtue, self control, the value of education, honest work, and the purpose and privilege of life. Nothing can...

Our greatest mistakes, if we look at them, and digest them, and interact with them, and learn from them… they can be the greatest moments of our lives.

go, go, go!

All men are born firstly with the instinct to protect themselves. But few grow to really love themselves, and even fewer learn to love their neighbor as themselves.

It is debatable whether blind faith is truly faith at all. Faith is the perceptive gray area where scientific facts meet an individual’s experiential truths – the extreme of the former is left feeling in...

I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.

The word ‘choice’ is a fraud while people choose only what they have been taught to choose.

Study institutions may become visible when the head is more emptied of imaginings.

Confused? Confusion is good. It’s an excellent place to learn something new from.

kid youll move mountains

It’s taking time in learning the nuances.

I’ll bet opening a store called Boobs and Books would increase literacy. I prefer a hands-on approach to learning.

But there is another possible attitude towards the records of the past, and I have never been able to understand why it has not been more often adopted. To put it in its curtest form,...

I want to hold my grandpa in my arms and pet him while I fall asleep. That’s why I’m learning to play the guitar.

So many things in my continuing education are learned by going where I have to go and doing what I have to do. Therefore, my only answer is: “I guess I’ll find out.

The greatest solitude; reading!

Great literature makes a great life.

Engaging with children in troublesome thinking is problematic, but important. Ignoring the hard stuff and only engaging in the fluff and fun from curriculum choices is to keep underground issues of social justice and to...

I love to teach children science.

Learn, relearn and outlearn.

We read to learn.

This too shall pass.

We all have a little entrepreneur inside of us. Wanting to leverage it is what gives us an entrepreneurial spirit and an entrepreneurial mind. Actually doing it makes one an entrepreneur.

We’re still learning how to practice, like everyone except the NFL,

We were just amazed we were putting out a record. We were, and are, still learning. But we’ve never cared much for professionalism as long as the energy was there. Like our live shows: We’re...

Knowledge is not obtained through being absorbed in a book, it comes when you brush aside fantasies and sensuality, switching from the unreal to the real.

One thing I learned in here is the past is for learning. It’s not for punishing others or yourself. It’s not for dwelling on and getting angry about things you can’t change. It’s for learning...

I’ve grown up defined by this desperate, undeniable, ‘can’t breathe’ kind of space inside of myself and I’m afraid that the diagnosis is fatal.

If I had an .MP3 of your heartbeat… I might actually get some sleep.

I’ve studied now Philosophy and Jurisprudence, Medicine — and even, alas! Theology — from end to end with labor keen; and here, poor fool with all my lore I stand, no wiser than before.

There is no way to help a learner to be disciplined, active, and thoroughly engaged unless he perceives a problem to be a problem or whatever is to-be-learned as worth learning, and unless he plays...

You don’t know what you don’t know

Mozart liked to write letters while on the loo. He wrote, “I think it only fitting to write while shitting.” This gave me the idea of, “I think it only fitting to read while …”...

He’s showing us a lot in practice. He’s a hard worker. He’s just been a sponge. He’s learning like crazy. I think he’s having fun playing with a higher level of player. I think he’s...

Genuine wisdom has two major conditions: you cannot teach it, and you cannot make someone learn it.

We play better and better each time we take the court. We’re still making mistakes, but we’re learning. We are getting there.

However great an intellectual may be, however great one may be as a scholar or a man of learning, one has also to acquire humanness. Without humanness, scholarship and intellectual eminence are of no value.