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Learning Quotes
"To know ourselves, is agreed by all to be the most useful Learning; the first Lessons, therefore, given us ought to be on that Subject."
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"You aren't learning anything when you're talking."
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"It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning."
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"The best way of learning to be an independent sovereign state is to be an independent sovereign state."
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"We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid."
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"That is not enough. Sport has been great for me, a great learning place that if you want to achieve you can, even if you are from the poorest part of Africa."
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"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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"Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose."
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"There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning."
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"Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do."
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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."
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"Every opportunity I got, I took it as a learning experience."
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"Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other."
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"The mistakes of the wise lead them to light. The triumphs of fools lead them to darkness."
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"It is important to view knowledge as sort of a semantic tree -- make sure you understand the fundamental principles, ie the trunk and big branches, before you get into the leaves/details or there is nothing for them to hang on to."
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"I believe that the testing of the student's achievements in order to see if he meets some criterion held by the teacher, is directly contrary to the implications of therapy for significant learning."
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"I think it's so important to keep learning and keep your brain active."
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"The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability."
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"I'm very learning-disabled, and I think it drove me to what I'm doing."
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"To regain your lost years, you must make sure that any activity targeted at attaining your goal must be done with the qualities of intensity, speed and focus."
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"I'm still learning, you know. At 80, I feel there is a lot I don't know."
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"I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship."
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"Learning to make films is very easy. Learning what to make films about is very hard."
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"I felt as though I was partly unlearning what i had never learned and yet knew so well: I mean, how to live."
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"I'm writing a book and working on my one-woman show, Learning To Be Human."
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"One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more."
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"If this validates anything, it's that learning how to bunt and hit and run and turning two is more important than knowing where to find the little red light at the dug out camera."
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"I'm learning to accept the lack of privacy as the real downer in my profession."
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"Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual."
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"I hardly teach. It's more like a gathering of minds looking at one subject and learning from each other. I enjoy the process."
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"The training comes to us with the benefit of what has gone before."
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"I was training more learning how to scuba dive which I'd never done which was really, really, really cool."
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"But the important thing about learning to wait, I feel sure, is to know what you are waiting for."
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"I've finally learnt how to say, "No comment". To appear in the tabloids is a real learning curve and a steep one at that. You had better learn quick or you get burnt."
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"As you get older, you're always maturing, you're always learning something new about yourself."
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