#earning

One can give or withhold in a manner far more effective, sophisticated, useful, which is quite invisible to people who think that giving or withholding is done by external assessment. If you seek some mark of favour or 'promotion', know that you are not ready for it. Progress comes through capacity to learn, and is irresistible. Nobody can stand between you and knowledge if you are fit for it. ↗

— Idries Shah

#learning #science #sufis #truth #wisdom

When scientific conversations cease, then dogma rather than knowledge begins to rule the day. ↗

— Jaak Panksepp

#learning #science #science

Most importantly, I'd learned how to question and why ("when" had never been an issue: always). ↗

— Leslie Anthony

#science #science

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

— Richard P. Feynman

#learning #scholarship #learn

Despite a voluminous and often fervent literature on "income distribution," the cold fact is that most income is not distributed: It is earned. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#earnings #economics #income #socialism #wealth

The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#ground #how #knack #learning #miss

Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo clinic. ↗

— Roy Blount, Jr.

#clinic #harvard #learning #like #literature

That was the reasoning behind learning to play bass, and then after that it was more like it was neat to play songs together - for me to play bass and for him to play guitar. ↗

— Tom Araya

#bass #behind #guitar #him #learning

The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live. ↗

— Mortimer Adler

#continue #growing #growth #learning #live

In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the parents, but the attempt always fails because cultural transmission is geared to learning, not DNA. ↗

— Gregory Bateson

#attempt #because #cultural #culture #dna