Mrs. J’s Musings July 22, 2013
The Learning Journey in Quotes
ASK
“Whatever you cannot
understand, you cannot possess.” –Goethe
“The educated person is
someone who knows how to find out what he doesn’t know.” -Georg Simmel
“The first problem for
all of us, men and women, is not to
learn, but to unlearn.” –Gloria Steinam
“It is not the answer
that enlightens, but the question.” –Eugene Ionesco
“I don’t pretend to
have the answers but the questions are certainly worth thinking about.” –Arthur
C. Clarke
“If we begin with certainties, we shall end in
doubts; but if we begin with doubts, and are patient, we shall end in
certainties.” –Francis Bacon
ACT
“We should be taught
not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates
inspiration.” -Frank Tibett
“The shrewd guess, the
fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion-these are the
valuable coins of a thinker at work.” –Jerome S. Bruner
“Experience is a hard
teacher. She gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.” – Anon
“The Wright brothers
flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.” – Charles Franklin
Kettering
“Getting an idea should
be like sitting down on a pin; it should make you jump up and do something.
–E.L. Simpson
“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only
to be understood.” –Marie Curie
ARTICULATE
“A problem adequately
stated is a problem well on its way to being solved.” –Buckminster Fuller
“For me the greatest
beauty always lay in the greatest clarity.” –Gatthold Ephriam Lessing
“More important than
the quest for certainty is the quest for clarity.” –Francois Gautier
CREATE
“You never change
things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model
that makes the existing model obsolete.” – Buckminster Fuller
“The voyage of
discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”
–Marcel Proust
“Discovery consists in
seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought. –Albert
Szent-Gyorgyi
“Your sole contribution
to the sum of things is yourself.” –Frank Crane
“The sun, with all
those planets around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes
as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.” - Galileo
PUBLISH
“A word is not a crystal, transparent and
unchanging, IT IS THE SKIN OF A LIVING THOUGHT and may vary greatly in color
and content according to circumstances and time in which it is used.”
-Oliver Wendall Holmes
Jr.
