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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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"The best way of learning to be an independent sovereign state is to be an independent sovereign state."
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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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"You aren't learning anything when you're talking."
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"We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid."
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"It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning."
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"I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand."
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"For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them."
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"One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil."
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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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"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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"Most important, I have learned from my colleagues and students."
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"I'm writing a book and working on my one-woman show, Learning To Be Human."
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"Much learning does not teach understanding."
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"Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own."
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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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"I have six sisters, so I assumed I'd have a girl. Learning I was having a boy was really weird."
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"One thing changes every evening: It's the audience, and I'm working my magic. I'm always learning from it."
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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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"The only things you learn are the things you tame."
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"There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning."
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"Every man with a little leisure and enough money for railway tickets, every man, indeed, who knows how to read, has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting."
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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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"When we read too fast or too slowly, we understand nothing."
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"I'm very learning-disabled, and I think it drove me to what I'm doing."
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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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"If you want to make progress, put up with being perceived as ignorant or naive in worldly matters, don't aspire to a reputation for sagacity. If you do impress others as somebody, don't altogether believe it. You have to realize, it isn't easy to keep your will in agreement with nature, as well as externals. Caring about the one inevitably means you are going to shortchange the other."
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"Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education."
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"The best lessons of life are learnt in silence and solitude."
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"For a highly motivated learner, it's not like knowledge is secret and somehow the Internet made it not secret. It just made knowledge easy to find. If you're a motivated enough learner, books are pretty good."
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"Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do."
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"Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers."
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