Learning

“We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a living. We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody has to be employed at some kind of drudgery because, according to Malthusian-Darwinian theory, he must justify his right to exist. So we have inspectors of inspectors and people making instruments for inspectors to inspect inspectors. The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.”

-Buckminster Fuller

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1000 Quotes Project

"A Selection of Curated Quotes"

1127 – “Expertise isn’t about being consistently right. It’s about becoming decreasingly wrong. A hallmark of understanding is the ability to rule out inaccurate theories and flawed evidence, and thereby move closer to the truth. Learning is the art of discarding mistaken ideas.”

1112 – “A new idea comes suddenly and in a rather intuitive way. But intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience.”

1102 – “When you talk, you are only repeating what you already know. But if you listen, you may learn something new.”

1079 – Buckminster Fuller on Earning a Living

1072 – “That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you’ve understood all your life, but in a new way.”

1026 – “Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”

1001 – “I don’t love studying. I hate studying. I like learning. Learning is beautiful.”

924 – “There is a way between voice and presence where information flows.”

900 – 「敢于发问，羞耻一时，知耻于发问，愚昧一生。」