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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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"You aren't learning anything when you're talking."
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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 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."
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"I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand."
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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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"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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"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 have six sisters, so I assumed I'd have a girl. Learning I was having a boy was really weird."
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"Most important, I have learned from my colleagues and students."
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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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"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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"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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"The minute that you're not learning I believe you're dead."
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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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"The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability."
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"When we read too fast or too slowly, we understand nothing."
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"There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning."
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"The best lessons of life are learnt in silence and solitude."
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"I'm very learning-disabled, and I think it drove me to what I'm doing."
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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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"I'm still learning, you know. At 80, I feel there is a lot I don't know."
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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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"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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"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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