Learning Quotes
“I always found the extraordinary loss of life in the First World War very moving. I remember learning about it as a very young child, as an eight- or nine-year-old, asking my teachers what poppies were for. Every year the teachers would suddenly wear these red paper flowers in their lapels, and I would say 'What does that mean?'”
“This is actually a very important principle that science is learning about large systems like evolution and that futurists are learning about anticipating human society: just because a future scenario is plausible doesn't mean we can get there from here.”
-- Kevin Kelly
“It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.”
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss
“I can install toilets. I know all about the wax ring. I can tile floors. I'm learning how to do basic wiring.”
-- Sandra Bullock
“From you we have learned what we, at least, value, to separate Church and State and from you we gather inspiration at all times in our devotion to learning, to religious liberty, and to individual and National freedom.”
-- Seth Low
“I'd love to do a romantic comedy. And perhaps, if the character was right and I had a good gut instinct, a Bollywood movie. And I'd love to direct. One day. I'm learning a lot on the set of 'The Good Wife.'”
-- Archie Panjabi