Quotes About Higher Learning

#1. You stay in the surreal world of so-called higher learning. You are comfortable there. You have very little reason to leave it.

Harlan Coben

#2. During the days of segregation, there was not a place of higher learning for African Americans. They were simply not welcome in many of the traditional schools. And from this backward policy grew the network of historical black colleges and universities.

Michael N. Castle

#3. Most institutions of higher learning in the West were founded by and for religious denominations. The supposed alienation of education and faith is a recent phenomenon. At the same time, neither education nor the lack of it predisposes one to faith.

Marilynne Robinson

#4. Television is teaching all the time. Does more educating than the schools and all the institutions of higher learning.

Marshall McLuhan

#5. Since its founding in 1854, Penn State has proven to be a leading institution of higher learning.

Tim Holden

#6. Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high school. When he starts playing jazz it's like going on to college, to a school of higher learning.

B.B. King

#7. New ideas for innovation grow out of the minds of each new generation. Having an institution of higher learning that can help young people put those ideas into action is critical.

Jay Samit

#8. It is somewhat ironic to have us so deeply disturbed over a program where race is an element of consciousness, and yet to be aware of the fact, as we are, that institutions of higher learning ... have been given conceded preferences to the children of alumni.

Harry A. Blackmun

#9. To this day, most institutions of higher learning either do not know how to instruct students in reading beyond the elementary level, or lack the facilities and personnel to do so.

Mortimer J. Adler

#10. The left controls the media, the institutions of higher learning and the government. They preach against business, disparate merit, decry free enterprise and slander capitalism.

James Cook

#11. He worried that he was destined to be a hobbyist, a dreamer incapable of finishing anything. The fact that the college seemed to encourage this kind of "experimentation" made him doubt its motives as an institution of higher learning.

Noah Hawley

#12. College football: I do not see the relationship of those highly industrialized affairs on Saturday afternoons to higher learning in America.

Robert Maynard Hutchins

#13. Higher learning undergoes emotional pressure.

Toba Beta

#14. Art is something greater and higher than our own skill or knowledge or learning. That art is something which, though produced by human hands, is not wrought by hands alone, but wells up from a deeper source, from a man's soul.

Vincent Van Gogh

#15. Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#16. It is no accident that Sufis find that they can connect most constructively with people who are well integrated into the world, as well as having higher aims, and that those who adopt a sensible attitude towards society and life as generally known can usually absorb Sufi teachings very well indeed

Idries Shah

#17. The method of learning by trial and error - of learning from our mistakes - seems to be fundamentally the same whether it is practised by lower or by higher animals, by chimpanzees or by men of science.

Karl R. Popper

#18. And, to say truly, the greatest benefit that learning bringeth unto men is this: that it teacheth men that be rough and rude of nature, by compass and rule of reason, to be civil and courteous, and to like better the mean state than the higher.

Plutarch

#19. I see you resting and learning. I see you getting stronger. I see you preparing for greater things so you can take your life and business to a higher level. Always remember that our biggest battle comes before our greatest victory.

Jon Gordon

#20. There is no doubt that the planet is going through a transformation where all of us are learning to recognize our wholeness. The soul is being grounded in a new way. As we bring love into all things we transform the planet into a higher vibration.

Dorothy Maclean

#21. Strange as it seems, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and higher education positively fortifies it.

Stephen Vizinczey

#22. This larger goal wouldn't be the imitation of education in Universities today, glossed over and concealed by grades and degrees that give the appearance of something happening when, in fact, almost nothing is going on. It would be the real thing.

Robert M. Pirsig

#23. You need your speace to strech your wings.You will learn in the due time to fly higher.

K.J. Kilton

#24. Don't let yourself stagnate or reach a plateau. Keep learning, keep improving. Be open to change. Your ability to constantly raise the bar higher and set standards will help you evolve and take you to the next level.

Roopleen

#25. We are an institution of high learning and higher manners. We simply cannot shoot first; it isn't done. Now, remember that, Miss Temminnick, do - a lady never shoots first. She asks questions, then she shoots.

Gail Carriger

#26. I have long since abandoned the notion that higher education is essential to either success or happiness. Hothouses of learning do not always grow anything edible.

Robert Moses

#27. Knowing higher truths ensure that we have a larger perspective where all other things fall in place or start making sense.

Thomas Vazhakunnathu

#28. See that your children are properly educated in the rudiments of their mother tongue, and then let them proceed to higher branches of learning..

Brigham Young

#29. The limited mind owned by human..
requires billions of brains of many generations,
before capable enough to understand the truth,
the kind of truth which will set us free.

Toba Beta

#30. The supernova is enabling a deeper revolution that is just beginning, spurred by learning platforms such as Udacity, edX, and Coursera, that will change the very metabolism and shape of higher education and, one hopes, lift the adaptability line in the way that

Thomas L. Friedman

#31. By learning to trust your intuition, miracles seem to happen. Intuitive thoughts are gifts from the higher self.

Susan Jeffers

#32. Assessment coordinators need to be knowledgeable about general higher education topics (e.g., student persistence, the cost of higher education, diversity, and student learning); they must also know how those play out at specific institutions.

Kimberly Yousey-Elsener

#33. Emphasis must be put on learning: there is no substitute to education. It can be briefly formulated in a few words: always, whatever you do in life, think higher and feel deeper.

Elie Wiesel

#34. Culturally speaking, I was raised in a Jewish household. In addition to the religious side of it, I was taught respect for books and learning and the higher professions like medicine and law and teaching.

Woody Allen

#35. Always set your goals higher than you could ever possibly reach. That way, when you barely fall short, you're still better than everybody else.

Carson V. Heady

#36. There is perhaps no truer sign that a man is really advancing than that he is learning to forget himself, that he is losing the natural thoughts about self in the thought of One higher than himself, to whose guidance he can commit himself and all men.

John Campbell Shairp

#37. If Anonymous and Lulzsec are the id of hacking, then physical hackerspaces are the heart of the higher-minded hacking ideals: freedom of information, meritocracy of ideas, a joy of learning and anti-authoritarianism.

Heather Brooke

#38. There is no better place for learning to work independently and to extend your horizon than in higher school.

Mikhail Botvinnik

#39. The challenge is to keep learning and creating higher-order solutions rather than merely repeating the failed journeys of the past.

Kevan Hall

#40. We fill our lives with meaning by serving endlessly and by learning to transcend our consciousness to a higher consciousness.

Debasish Mridha

#41. I am here to give my players the little push they need, just like they needed long ago, when first learning the art of the swing. All you needed then was a little push, and quickly you were pumping away, flying higher and higher, without any more help from the 'coach.'

John Kessel

#42. By learning to contact, listen to, and act on our intuition, we can directly connect to the higher power of the universe and allow it to become our guiding force.

Shakti Gawain

#43. Learning how to transcend consciousness to a higher consciousness is a blissful journey and the ultimate essence of life.

Debasish Mridha

#44. Has it ever struck you as odd, or unfortunate, that today, when the proportion of literacy is higher than it has ever been, people should have become susceptible to the influence of advertisement and mass propaganda to an extent hitherto unheard of and unimagined?

Dorothy L. Sayers

#45. If you always tend to avoid disappointment,
at least you have two issues to be dealt with:
The first is to soften the hardness of your heart;
The second is to solve problems that make you so.

Toba Beta

#46. When you feel life at crossroads,
you need higher perspective view.

Toba Beta

#47. Of village: it is not called so because its inhabitants are of higher age on average; in fact, there is no connection between the words "village" and "age" whatsoever.

Jakub Marian

#48. The process of truly learning is laborious, monotonous, and at times down right bitter and boring. Therefore, obtaining a truly higher education will require of you a determined mind and a will to stick and stay. In short, it will take discipline. But in the end, it will be worth it all.

Daniel Whyte III