The Learning Journey in Quotes; Ask, act, articulate, create, publish

Greetings all - food for tho't - you are invited to 

ponder and respond 

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.