Learning Quotes
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“Learning is not attained by chance. It must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.” |
- Abigail Adams
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“It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.” |
- Albert Einstein
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“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.” |
- Alvin Toffler
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“A library is a hospital for the mind.” |
- Anonymous
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“Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.” |
- Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
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“The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.” |
- Antisthenes
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“The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.” |
- B.B. King
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“An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.” |
- Benjamin Franklin
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“Accumulate learning by study, understand what you learn by questioning.” |
- Cha'n Master Mingjiao
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“A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.” |
- Chinese proverb
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“I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.” |
- Chinese proverb
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“Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back.” |
- Chinese proverb
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“It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.” |
- Claude Bernard
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“Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown.” |
- Claude Bernard
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“You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives.” |
- Clay P. Bedford
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“Learning without thought is labor lost.” |
- Confucius
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“You cannot open a book without learning something.” |
- Confucius
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“Learn as much as you can while you are young, since life becomes too busy later.” |
- Dana Stewart Scott
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“The sweetest path of life leads through the avenues of learning, and whoever can open up the way for another, ought, so far, to be esteemed a benefactor to mankind.” |
- David Hume
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“You live and learn. At any rate, you live.” |
- Douglas Adams
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“Make the work interesting and the discipline will take care of itself.” |
- E.B. White
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“One hour per day of study in your chosen field is all it takes. One hour per day of study will put you at the top of your field within three years. Within five years you'll be a national authority. In seven years, you can be one of the best people in the world at what you do.” |
- Earl Nightingale
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“I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.” |
- Eartha Kitt
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“I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.” |
- Galileo Galilei
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“Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” |
- Gandhi (1869-1948)
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“It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.” |
- Harry S. Truman
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“They know enough who know how to learn.” |
- Henry Brooks Adams
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“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.” |
- Henry Ford
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“Get over the idea that only children should spend their time in study. Be a student so long as you still have something to learn, and this will mean all your life.” |
- Henry L. Doherty
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“A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on a cold iron.” |
- Horace Mann
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“From listening comes wisdom, and from speaking repentence.” |
- Italian proverb
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“In teaching, the greatest sin is to be boring.” |
- J.F. Herbert
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“A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.” |
- Jerry Seinfield
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“We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shores of our ignorance.” |
- John A. Wheeler
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“Liberty without learning is always in peril; learning without liberty is always in vain.” |
- John F. Kennedy
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“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.” |
- John Locke
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“The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.” |
- John Lubbock
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“One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.” |
- John W. Gardner
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“Learning never exhausts the mind.” |
- Leonardo da Vinci
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“Children not only have to learn what their parents learned in school, but also have to learn how to learn. This has to be recognized as a new problem which is only partly solved.” |
- Margaret Mead
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“You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way.” |
- Marvin Minsky
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“Almost anything can become a learning experience if there is enough caring involved.” |
- Mary MacCracken
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“The kind of teacher who is afraid that they are going to be replaced by a computer should be.” |
- Michael Fullan
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“Research shows that you begin learning in the womb and go right on learning until the moment you pass on. Your brain has a capacity for learning that is virtually limitless, which makes every human a potential genius.” |
- Michael J. Gelb
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“Learning is a treasure which accompanies its owner everywhere.” |
- Microsoft Encarta CD
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“In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.” |
- Mortimer Adler
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“The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as long as we live.” |
- Mortimer Adler
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“In order to learn, one must change one's mind.” |
- Orson Scott Card
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“You can learn from anyone even your enemy.” |
- Ovid
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“In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.” |
- Paul Eldridge
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“We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.” |
- Peter Drucker
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“Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.” |
- Plato
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“I learned the way a monkey learns - by watching its parents.” |
- Prince Charles
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“You learn something every day if you pay attention.” |
- Ray LeBlond
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“Responsibility for the learning belongs to the student, regardless of age.” |
- Robert Martin
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“Most students treat knowledge as a liquid to be swallowed rather than as a solid to be chewed, and then they wonder why it provides little nourishment.” |
- Sydney Harris
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“We can learn something new any time we believe we can.” |
- Virginia Satir
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“Repetition is the mother of learning.” |
- White Mountain Apache Indians Archives
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