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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."
108
"The best way of learning to be an independent sovereign state is to be an independent sovereign state."
105
"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."
91
"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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"One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil."
55
"We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself."
52
"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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"Much learning does not teach understanding."
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"Most important, I have learned from my colleagues and students."
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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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"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 hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand."
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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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"Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education."
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"I'm writing a book and working on my one-woman show, Learning To Be Human."
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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 real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability."
40
"There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning."
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"The minute that you're not learning I believe you're dead."
39
"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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"Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers."
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"Every opportunity I got, I took it as a learning experience."
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"There's little growth and progression without learning and reflection."
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"I'm very learning-disabled, and I think it drove me to what I'm doing."
37
"I'm still learning, you know. At 80, I feel there is a lot I don't know."
37
"When we read too fast or too slowly, we understand nothing."
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"That which is given free is never knowledge. It may be information....but knowledge does not come in that manner."
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"Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other."
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"Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do."
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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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"The best lessons of life are learnt in silence and solitude."
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