"Personally I'm always ready to learn, although..." - Quote by Winston Churchill
Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
More by Winston Churchill
“The main vice of capitalism is the uneven distribution of prosperity. The main vice of socialism is the even distribution of misery.”
“The Dark Ages may return-the Stone Age may return on the gleaming wings of Science; and what might now shower immeasureable material blessings upon mankind may even bring about its total destruction. Beware! I say. Time may be short.Referring to the discovery of atomic energy.”
“What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone?”
More on Learning
“Is virtue something that can be taught?”
“The better a man is, the more mistakes he will make, for the more new things he will try. I would never promote to a top-level job a man who was not making mistakes...otherwise he is sure to be mediocre.”
“Traveling has less to do with seeing things than experiencing them.”
More on Education
“The only way to settle questions of an ideological nature or controversial issues among the people is by the democratic method, the method of discussion, of criticism, of persuasion and education, and not by the method of coercion or repression.”
“The difference between where you are today and where you'll be five years from now will be found in the quality of books you've read.”
“There are two classes of poets - the poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we love.”