Dynamic learning involves four steps that I’ll call the four Fs. The first is focus, or choosing which topics we’re going to learn. What are we going to say no to, enabling us to say yes to things? Where are we going to gain that deeper knowledge? Where are we going to have an impact? That means picking an area and moving in that direction.
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Author: Bradley Staats | Source: Knolwedge@Wharton | Subject: Education | Scholarship
Economies thrive when individuals strive, but because individuals will only strive for their own happiness, it is essential that they mistakenly believe that producing and consuming are routes to personal well-being.
Author: Daniel Gilbert | Subjects: Economics | Economy, Life & Society, Psychology | Behavior
In the life of every honorable man comes a difficult moment […] when the simple statement that this is black and that is white requires paying a high price.
Author: Adam Michnik | Subjects: Insight, Perception | Observation, Personal Improvement
It’s precisely in matters of highest importance — love, terror, is there a God, and why is Iago possessed by the Devil? — that we’re outside the domain of knowledge.
Author: Pico Iyer | Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Intelligence | Knowledge
Wisdom sometimes depends on seeing how much knowledge doesn’t know and how much every day is shaped by unexpectedness.
Author: Pico Iyer | Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Insight, Wisdom
But one thing that happens when we acquire too much “knowledge” is that, like Othello, we sometimes fail to distinguish it from what can never be known, which may not be untrue. Another is that we’re tempted to lose sight of the distinction between those realms, like science and health, where the more data we have, the better, and others, like human relations, where the … [ Read more ]
Author: Pico Iyer | Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Intelligence | Knowledge, Relationships
The pool of knowledge is limited; it’s the pool of ignorance, speculation and misunderstanding that is infinite.
Author: Pico Iyer | Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Intelligence | Knowledge
The secret to happiness in almost any relationship is knowing what not to say.
Author: Pico Iyer | Subject: Relationships
There is no knowledge without rational criticism, criticism in the service of the search for truth.
Author: Karl Popper | Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Intelligence | Knowledge
A behavior often isn’t good or bad in and of itself — it’s the application of that behavior to a given context that’s good or bad.
Author: Dr. Jody Foster | Subjects: Personal Improvement, Psychology | Behavior
One does not always need to know a subject very well in order to teach it: what one does need to know is How to Teach Anything.
Author: T.S. Eliot | Subject: Education | Scholarship
The philosophical relativism that hides behind [Kant’s] “old and famous question” “What is truth?” may open the way to evil things, such as a propaganda of lies inciting men to hatred. […] Relativism […] is a betrayal of reason and of humanity.
Author: Karl Popper | Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Intelligence | Knowledge
Knowledge consists in the search for truth — the search for objectively true, explanatory theories. It is not the search for certainty. To err is human. All human knowledge is fallible and therefore uncertain. It follows that we must distinguish sharply between truth and certainty. That to err is human means not only that we must constantly struggle against error, but also that, even when … [ Read more ]
Author: Karl Popper | Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Intelligence | Knowledge, Personal Improvement
Constant idleness should be included in the tortures of hell, but it is, on the contrary, considered to be one of the joys of paradise.
Author: Charles De Montesquieu | Subjects: Insight, Life & Society, Personal Improvement, Productivity & Time Management
Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope. Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we are saved by love. No virtuous act is quite as virtuous from … [ Read more ]
Author: Reinhold Niebuhr | Subject: Personal Improvement
Imagination is a vantage point of the future from which we can consider that which is lacking in the present.
Author: John Dewey | Subjects: Insight, Thought | Inquiry
God tests everyone, one with wealth, another with poverty. A rich man is tested in whether he would extend an arm of support to those who need it; a poor man in whether he would bear all his sufferings without discontent and with obedience.
Author: The Talmud | Subjects: Insight, Life & Society, Religion
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.
Author: Charles Darwin | Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Intelligence | Knowledge
Three temptations torture people: sexual desire, pride and lust for wealth. All the misfortunes of mankind come from these three cravings. Without them; people would live in happiness.
Author: F. Robert De Lamennais | Subjects: Personal Improvement, Psychology | Behavior
Nothing can make a person’s soul softer than the understanding of his own blame, and nothing can make one harder than the desire always to be right.
Author: The Talmud | Subject: Psychology | Behavior