#lear

It is arguable that when Humanists, "Shook off," as people say, "the trammels of religion," and discovered things of this world as objects of veneration in their own right... they began to lose the finer appreciation of even the world itself. Thus to the Christian centuries, the flesh was holy (or sacer at least in one sense or the other), and they veiled its awful majesty; to the Humanist centuries it was divine in its own right, and they exhibited it. Now it is the commonplace of the magazine cover. It has lost its numen. So too with the cult of knowledge for its own sake declining from the Revival of Learning to the Brains Trust. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#humanism #learning #religion

Respect the dead, learn from them, do not follow or avenge them. ↗

— Evan Meekins

#fantasy #fantasy-fiction #fiction #learn #respect

Those who are enslaved to their sects are not merely devoid of all sound knowledge, but they will not even stop to learn! ↗

— Claudius Galenus

#learning #science #truth #science

If you don't know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#shrugged #learn

Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible. ↗

— Richard P. Feynman

#learning #scholarship #learn

I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#let-go #live #learn

The formulation of the problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#math #mathematical #problem-solving #thinking #math

I’m much better at working out ideas in action than I am in theorizing about it and then transferring my thinking to action. I don’t work that way. I work with tentative ideas and I experiment and then with that experimentation in action, I finally come to the conclusions about what I think is the right way to do it. ↗

— Myles Horton

#doing #experience #organizing #theorizing #change

Well we are nothing if not re-inventive. With every life experience we learn what to not do ever again and how to adapt to our current situations. We are always learning about ourselves and changing. I seriously don’t know anyone that has it all figured out, and if there is I want to punch them in the face. ↗

— Allison B. Levine

#inventive #learning #change

After learning the foreign language Gibberish, I became a dream spokesman. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#foreign-language #gibberish #language #learning #spokesman