Human beings Quote by Aldous Huxley

In theory there is nothing to hinder our following what we are taught;but in life there are many things to draw us aside.

— Epictetus

People learn what they want to learn. If learning is forced on us, even if we master it temporarily, it is soon forgotten.

— Daniel Goleman

We spend most of our lives trying to unlearn much of what we've been taught.

— Alexandra Stoddard

I care not what subject is taught, if only it be taught well.

— Thomas Huxley

No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.

— Peter Drucker

Because the existing education system is oriented towards materialistic goals we need to pay special attention to inner values such as tolerance, forgiveness, love…

— Dalai Lama

One of the reasons we don't do as well as we should is that we are all over-taught.

— Israel Gelfand

The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.

— Norman Cousins

Most of our fellow-subjects are guided either by the prejudice of education or by a deference to the judgment of those who perhaps in…

— Joseph Addison

People are generally resistant to teaching and training because it requires effort. This clashes with the natural wiring of human adults: We are fundamentally…

— B. J. Fogg

The reason people don't know what is good for them is because most people don't know what they are trying to do.

— Neale Donald Walsch

Reason without learning is like the untilled soil, or like the human body that lacks nourishment.

— Khalil Gibran