#lear

The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you. ↗

— B.B. King

#beauty

One of the greatest journeys in life is overcoming insecurity and learning to truly not give a shit. ↗

— J.A. Konrath

#journey #learning #life #overcoming #truth

What do I miss, as a human being, if I have never heard of the Second Law of Thermodynamics? The answer is: Nothing. And what do I miss by not knowing Shakespeare? Unless I get my understanding from another source, I simply miss my life. Shall we tell our children that one thing is as good as another-- here a bit of knowledge of physics, and there a bit of knowledge of literature? If we do so, the sins of the fathers will be visited upon the children unto the third and fourth generation, because that normally is the time it takes from the birth of an idea to its full maturity when it fills the minds of a new generation and makes them think by it. Science cannot produce ideas by which we could live. ↗

— E.F. Schumacher

#learning #literature #purpose #science #beauty

Have you noticed that whatever sport you're trying to learn, some earnest person is always telling you to keep your knees bent? ↗

— Dave Barry

#bent #earnest #keep #knees #learn

People who worry that nuclear weaponry will one day fall in the hands of the Arabs, fail to realize that the Islamic bomb has been dropped already, it fell the day MUHAMMED (pbuh) was born. ↗

— - Dr. Joseph Adam Pearson.

#amazing #arabs #atomic #atomic-bomb #beautiful

Over the years, one comes to measure a place, too, not just for the beauty it may give, the balminess of its breezes, the insouciance and relaxation it encourages, the sublime pleasures it offers, but for what it teaches. The way in which it alters our perception of the human. It is not so much that you want to return to indifferent or difficult places, but that you want to not forget. ↗

— Barry Lopez

#enlightenment #landscape #learning #meditation #travel

It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#business #how #learn #none #their

Keep your ears open, your eyes open, grab everything you can, react, and learn! ↗

— Victoria Abril

#everything #eyes #grab #keep #learn

I learned from the example of my father that the manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured. ↗

— Dean Acheson

#endures #example #father #i #important

As a former veteran, I understand the needs of veterans, and have been clear - we will work together, stand together with the Administration, but we will also question their policies when they shortchange veterans and military retirees. ↗

— Solomon Ortiz

#also #been #clear #former #i