Living Learning Quest Quotes

#1. Here's a Challenge: Study a complicated topic in such detail that anyone interested can nod their head and understand as you explain specific concepts within the topic.

Albert Einstein

#2. In the Phaedrus, Plato argued that the new arrival of writing would revolutionize culture for the worst. He suggested that it would substitute reminiscence for thought and mechanical learning for the true dialect of the living quest for truth by discourse and conversation.

Marshall McLuhan

#3. Being sorry is the highest act of selfishness, seeing value only after discarding it.

Douglas Horton

#4. Self-production: the characteristic of living systems to continuously renew themselves and to regulate this process in such a way that the integrity of their structure is maintained. It is a natural process which supports the quest for structure, process renewal and integrity.

Margaret J. Wheatley

#5. Still, it was a sad state of the world that people judged others not by the best that they could be but by the worst thought in their own hearts.

Elizabeth Hoyt

#6. Didn't George Washington say, 'He who controls Afghanistan will carry New Jersey?'

Gore Vidal

#7. Past conference topics have included strengthening the role of fathers in children's lives, the impact of the media culture on children, the delicate balance between work and family, and family involvement in education.

Tipper Gore

#8. You can't stop the future You can't rewind the past The only way to learn the secret ... is to press play.

Jay Asher

#9. I think there are some good players coming up. I think we are at a point where people can swallow a guitar solo in a pop rock record again.

Gary Cherone

#10. While some of us might be sitting around thinking "Nobody cares about me!", our heart is currently working its seventeen-thousandth twenty-four-hour shift - and would have every right to feel a little forgotten when its owner thinks such thoughts.

Giulia Enders

#11. Living is about learning. It is a lifelong quest.

Marilyn Barnicke Belleghem

#12. In the Troubadour days, it was all those songwriters that I hung around with all the time, so I could get songs and find out what was going on. So we all knew each other, and we just carried each other's word around.

Linda Ronstadt

#13. No time to grieve for roses when the forests are burning.

Zbigniew Herbert

#14. Unless a subject interests me, I'll pass it over and save my film for better things.

Andreas Feininger

#15. Love of England is very nearly the strongest emotion that I possess.

Bertrand Russell