Robert A. Heinlein Quotes About Learning

Quotes about: Learning

• First you must learn to control your self. The rest follows. Blessed is he who knows himself and commands himself, for the world is his and love and happiness and peace walk with him wherever he goes.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Love, Happiness, Spiritual

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.401, Penguin

• A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Life, Motivational, Atheist

  Time Enough for Love "Intermission" (1973)

• I never learned from a man who agreed with me.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Wise, Wisdom, Learning

• A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Sad, Jealousy, Knowledge

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.236, Penguin

• When one teaches, two learn.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Education, Clever, Teaching

• Learning isn't a means to an end; it is an end in itself.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Learning, Mean, Experience

  Robert A. Heinlein (2010). “Time for the Stars”, p.55, Macmillan

• Touch is the most fundamental sense. A baby experiences it, all over, before he is born and long before he learns to use sight, hearing, or taste, and no human ever ceases to need it. Keep your children short on pocket money but long on hugs

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Baby, Children, Learning

• Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best, he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear his shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Learning, Math, Shoes

  Time Enough for Love "Intermission" (1973)

• Humans hardly ever learn from the experience of others. They learn - when they do, which isn't often - on their own, the hard way.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Learning, Creativity, Experience

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.32, Penguin

• You live and learn. Or you don't live long.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Learning, Long, Live And Learn

  "Time Enough for Love". Book by Robert A. Heinlein, 1973.

• To stay young requires unceasing cultivation of the ability to unlearn old falsehoods.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Learning, Libertarian, Young

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.322, Penguin

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