John H. Lienhard quotes
-
“To learn is to incur surprise-I mean really learning, not just refreshing our memory or adding a new fact. And to invent is to bestow surprise-I mean really inventing, not just innovating what others have done.”
-- John H. LienhardSource : John H. Lienhard (2006). “How Invention Begins: Echoes of Old Voices in the Rise of New Machines”, p.227, Oxford University Press
-
“Five hundred years ago a person in error was a person searching for the truth.”
-- John H. Lienhard -
“The trick, of course, is to lose one day and come back to win the next. But that is possible only when we draw healthy pleasure and confidence from our creative processes.”
-- John H. LienhardSource : John H. Lienhard (2003). “The Engines of Our Ingenuity: An Engineer Looks at Technology and Culture”, p.198, Oxford University Press
-
“If what we learn is no more than what we expect to learn, then we have learned nothing at all.”
-- John H. LienhardSource : John H. Lienhard (2003). “The Engines of Our Ingenuity: An Engineer Looks at Technology and Culture”, p.35, Oxford University Press
-
-
“I want to have the memories of my time with you to keep me warm.”
-
“Humility means that one should not be anxious to have the satisfaction of being honored by others.”
Source : A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (1976). “Bhagavad-Gita as it is: Abridged edition with translations and elaborate purports”