Quotes on learning
It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
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Jacob Bronowski Quotes
The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.
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Mohammed Quotes
You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way.
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Marvin Minsky Quotes
Learn as much as you can while you are young, since life becomes too busy later.
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Dana Stewart Scott Quotes
It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English - up to fifty words used in correct context - no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese.
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Carl Sagan Quotes
When you lose, don't lose the lesson.
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Author Unknown Quotes
I am what the librarians have made me with a little assistance from a professor of Greek and a few poets.
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Bernard Keble Sandwell Quotes
The best of my education has come from the public library... my tuition fee is a bus fare and once in a while, five cents a day for an overdue book. You don't need to know very much to start with, if you know the way to the public library.
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Lesley Conger Quotes
You learn something every day if you pay attention.
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Ray LeBlond Quotes
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes
When the student is ready, the master appears.
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Buddhist Proverb Quotes
No matter how one may think himself accomplished, when he sets out to learn a new language, science, or the bicycle, he has entered a new realm as truly as if he were a child newly born into the world.
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Frances Willard Quotes
Develop a built-in bullshit detector.
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Ernest Hemingway Quotes
We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.
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Lloyd Alexander Quotes
Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.
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Thomas Huxley Quotes
The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.
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John Lubbock Quotes
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
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Alvin Toffler Quotes
There are many things which we can afford to forget which it is yet well to learn.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes
A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.
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Chinese Proverb Quotes
I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
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Abraham Lincoln Quotes
I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.
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Eartha Kitt Quotes
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
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Albert Einstein Quotes
Give me a fruitful error any time, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections. You can keep your sterile truth for yourself.
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Vilfredo Pareto Quotes
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty.
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Henry Ford Quotes
Learning without thought is labor lost.
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Confucius Quotes
Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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Alexander Pope Quotes
The pupil can only educate himself. Teachers are the custodians of apparatus upon which he himself must turn and twist to acquire the excellencies that distinguish the better from the poorer of God's vessels.
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Martin H. Fischer Quotes
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.
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Clay P. Bedford Quotes
Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily.
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Thomas Szasz Quotes
The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.
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Mortimer Adler Quotes
It is not hard to learn more. What is hard is to unlearn when you discover yourself wrong.
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Martin H. Fischer Quotes
You have learned something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.
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H.G. Wells Quotes
In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
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Paul Eldridge Quotes
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
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Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
I find four great classes of students: The dumb who stay dumb. The dumb who become wise. The wise who go dumb. The wise who remain wise.
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Martin H. Fischer Quotes
There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom.
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Unknown Author Quotes
The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.
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Antisthenes Quotes
Learning is like rowing upstream: not to advance is to drop back.
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Chinese Proverb Quotes
All the world is a laboratory to the inquiring mind.
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Martin H. Fischer Quotes
Learning preserves the errors of the past, as well as its wisdom. For this reason, dictionaries are public dangers, although they are necessities.
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Alfred North Whitehead Quotes
Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?
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George W. Bush Quotes
Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.
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Josh Billings Quotes