Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" Some books leave us free and some books make us free. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Related Quotes:

" My one thing is I continue to be interested and want to be a student. I don't want to be a master. When I'm learning something, I'm in my element. "

" It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" As I was coming up, it always seemed like I was learning. If it wasn't from school, it was the 'hood. The influences of the 'hood are very powerful. "

" Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies. "

" The only way to have a friend is to be one. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" We know that once we stop learning and call ourselves learned, we become useless members of the scientific society. "

Christian de Duve

" If we study learning as a data science, we can reverse engineer the human brain and tailor learning techniques to maximize the chances of student success. This is the biggest revolution that could happen in education, turning it into a data-driven science, and not such a medieval set of rumors professors tend to carry on. "

Sebastian Thrun

" In general, for me, a big thing in my life has been just sort of learning what true self-esteem is and what true positive self-image is. And being a dancer, and growing up in that world, you're so focused on yourself, and you're so focused on achieving goals, on finding perfection, and working on your craft. "

" Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" There has to be innate circuitry that does the learning, that creates the culture, that acquires the culture, and that responds to socialization. "

" Place and displacement have always been central for me. A type of insecurity goes with that: you are always following the cues, like learning the dance steps when the dance is already under way. "

" What is taught in schools generally in the West Indies is that if something is your thing, it's better than anybody else's because it's yours. It's extremely provincial and also damaging. You prevent people from learning things. The biggest absurdity would be, 'Don't read Shakespeare because he was white.' "

" I'm not crazy. But I am different. I'm still learning about myself. "

" As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" Many think of memory as rote learning, a linear stuffing of the brain with facts, where understanding is irrelevant. When you teach it properly, with imagination and association, understanding becomes a part of it. "

" For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" When I was a kid it was much more difficult. You're trying to understand what the director wants. It's a learning process. Now, you go in and it's more of a collaboration. "

" When in the end, the day came on which I was going away, I learned the strange learning that things can happen which we ourselves cannot possibly imagine, either beforehand, or at the time when they are taking place, or afterwards when we look back on them. "

" Many people feel so pressured by the expectations of others that it causes them to be frustrated, miserable and confused about what they should do. But there is a way to live a simple, joy-filled, peaceful life, and the key is learning how to be led by the Holy Spirit, not the traditions or expectations of man. "

" Entrepreneurship requires an unvanquished spirit of curiosity, an openness to learning, a letting go of OldCo so you're free to create NewCo. "

Michael E. Gerber

" Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" The most vulnerable people have tough exteriors because they are very scared inside, and it's very hard for people like that - people like me - to open up. But playing it safe means you stop being open to learning. I always try to find the challenges. "

Christina Aguilera

" Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" Learning Gardens are outdoor classrooms, engaging learning environments where kids learn about math, science, entrepreneurship, and above all else, real food. "

" I started to respect older actors when I was young and then contemporary actors later on. Then I learned respect for comedy. When I was first doing theatre, I thought of it as just a means to become Sarah Bernhardt or someone like that. But acting with young people has been a great learning experience. "

" Whether it's learning to hit a backhand in tennis, learning high school chemistry, or getting better at ski racing, I really believe with hard work and analytic preparation, you can skip a few steps and find the faster way. "

Mikaela Shiffrin

" Young children seem to be learning who to share this toy with and figure out how it works, while adolescents seem to be exploring some very deep and profound questions: 'How should this society work? How should relationships among people work?' The exploration is: 'Who am I, what am I doing?' "

" A humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning. "

Thomas a Kempis

" It's tempting to say the Ph.D. didn't have an effect, but it's not so. I think whatever resonance I may be able to achieve is in part simply from the amount of reading and learning that I acquired along the way. "

Robert B. Parker