Great Throughts Treasury

This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.

Related Quotes

Arthur Koestler

Creative activity described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

Individual | Learning | Teacher |

Arthur Koestler

Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

Individual | Learning | Teacher |

Arthur Koestler

Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

Creativity | Individual | Learning | Teacher |

Author Unknown NULL

Unless the effectiveness of our learning is greater than the nature of change is unlikely to be equated with progress.

Change | Learning | Nature | Progress |

Author Unknown NULL

When our learning exceeds our deeds we are like trees whose branches are many but whose roots are few: the wind comes and uproots them... But when our deeds exceed our learning we are like trees whose branches are few but whose roots are many, so that even if all the winds of the world were to come and blow against them, they would be unable to move them.

Deeds | Learning | World | Deeds |

Blanche DeVries Bernard

A real teacher can never run dry because he continually learns from each and every experience, not filled with likes and dislikes, bur desire through learning to evolute whatever he touches. A correct teacher of Yoga is not one who discusses it, but who is it.

Desire | Experience | Learning | Teacher |

Charles Caleb Colton

It is better to have wisdom without learning, than to have learning without wisdom; just as it is better to be rich without being the possessor of a mine, than to be the possessor of a mine without being rich.

Better | Learning | Wisdom |

Confucius, aka Kong Qiu, Zhongni, K'ung Fu-tzu or Kong Fuzi NULL

Learning without thought is useless. Thought without learning is dangerous.

Learning | Thought | Thought |

Confucius, aka Kong Qiu, Zhongni, K'ung Fu-tzu or Kong Fuzi NULL

The principle of higher learning [higher education] consists in preserving man’s clear character, in giving new life to the people, and in dwelling in perfection, or the ultimate good.

Character | Education | Giving | Good | Learning | Life | Life | Man | People | Perfection |

Daniel Bell

To think of learning as a preparation for something beyond learning is a defeat of the process. The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.

Defeat | Desire | Important | Learning | Think |

Confucius, aka Kong Qiu, Zhongni, K'ung Fu-tzu or Kong Fuzi NULL

To be fond of learning is to draw close to wisdom. To practice with vigor is to draw close to benevolence. To know the seen of shame is to draw close to courage. He who knows these three things knows how to cultivate his own character. Knowing how to cultivate his own character, he knows how to govern other men. Knowing how to govern other men, he knows how to govern the world, it states, and its families.

Benevolence | Character | Courage | Knowing | Learning | Men | Practice | Shame | Wisdom | World | Govern |

Eric Hoffer

The central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning; It should produce not learned but learning people. The truly human society, where grandparents, parents, and children are students together. In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.

Change | Children | Education | Future | Learning | Parents | People | Society | Time | Will | World |

Epictetus "the Stoic" NULL

Education is the learning how... to distinguish that of things some are in our power, but others are not; in our power are will and all acts which depend on the will; things not in our power are the body, the parts of the body, possessions, parents, brothers, children, country, and, generally, all with whom we live in society.

Body | Children | Distinguish | Education | Learning | Parents | Possessions | Power | Society | Will |

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

Relationships offer us the biggest opportunities for learning lessons in life, for discovering who we are, what we fear, where our power comes from, and the meaning of true love.

Fear | Learning | Life | Life | Love | Meaning | Power |

Francis Bacon

It is without all controversy that learning doth make the minds of men gentle, amiable, and pliant to government; whereas ignorance makes them churlish, thwarting, and mutinous; and the evidence of time doth clear this assertion, considering that the most barbarous, rude and unlearned times have been most subject to tumults, seditions, and changes.

Assertion | Controversy | Evidence | Government | Ignorance | Learning | Men | Time |

Francis Bacon

The justest division of human learning is that derived from the three different faculties of the soul, the seat of learning; history being relative to the memory, poetry to the imagination, and philosophy to the reason.

History | Imagination | Learning | Memory | Philosophy | Poetry | Reason | Soul |

Étienne Bonnot de Condillac

Would you like to learn science? Begin by learning your own language.

Language | Learning | Science | Learn |

Eudora Welty

Learning stamps you with its moments. Childhood’s learning is made up of moments. It isn’t steady. It’s a pulse.

Childhood | Learning |

Francis Bacon

Men commonly think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and imbibed opinions, but generally act according to custom.

Custom | Learning | Men | Think |