#earning

This commitment to truth is something one senses more and more Americans yearning for, just as they are becoming more and more sophisticated at knowing when the truth is being obscured - an irony that seems to elude most of today's elected officials. ↗

— Michael Musto

#being #commitment #elected #elected officials #elude

Perhaps the prevalence of pedantry may be largely accounted for by the common error of thinking that, because useful knowledge should be remembered, any kind of knowledge that is at all worth learning should be remembered too. ↗

— Albert J. Nock

#any #because #common #error #kind

Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it; merely to show that you have one. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#learning #like #merely #more #never

Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#books #facets #knowledge #learning #men

Churchill was the canny political animal, very devious, bursting with energy and determination, learning as hard as he could. ↗

— Lord Mountbatten

#bursting #churchill #could #determination #devious

The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries. ↗

— Iris Murdoch

#another #body #human #human body #indifference

If you desire ease, forsake learning. ↗

— Nagarjuna

#ease #forsake #learning #you

We're learning as we go. We're a lot smarter this time. We understand what it takes to mobilize away from the threat of a hurricane. ↗

— Ray Nagin

#go #hurricane #learning #lot #mobilize

Isn't one of your first exercises in learning how to communicate to write a description of how to tie your shoelaces? The point being that it's basically impossible to use text to show that. ↗

— Donald Norman

#being #communicate #description #exercises #first

We were learning together. We'd go to various clinics and try to learn as much as possible. ↗

— Tom Conway

#go #learn #learning #much #possible