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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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"It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning."
37
"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."
30
"We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid."
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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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"You aren't learning anything when you're talking."
15
"Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose."
12
"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."
11
"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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"Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do."
10
"The mistakes of the wise lead them to light. The triumphs of fools lead them to darkness."
10
"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."
10
"I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship."
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"We, as we read, must become Greeks, Romans, Turks, priest and king, martyr and executioner; must fasten these images to some reality in our secret experience, or we shall learn nothing rightly."
8
"The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability."
8
"I'm very learning-disabled, and I think it drove me to what I'm doing."
8
"But the important thing about learning to wait, I feel sure, is to know what you are waiting for."
8
"Learning to make films is very easy. Learning what to make films about is very hard."
8
"To know is to memorize. To understand is to utilize. The accumulation of knowledge is learnedness. The accumulation of wisdom is experience."
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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."
7
"Some days of my vagabond life I read Arthur Schopenhauer and others Friedrich Nietzsche. I was a humble learner " an empty vessel - at the feet of the legends of human history. I was a seeker of truth, travelling through time while quenching my thirst for knowledge. And a humble learner of today becomes a strong leader of tomorrow."
7
"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."
7
"I hardly teach. It's more like a gathering of minds looking at one subject and learning from each other. I enjoy the process."
7
"I'm still learning, you know. At 80, I feel there is a lot I don't know."
7
"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."
7
"Sometimes I feel I can't quite master my written and spoken Spanish, because I'm too much a student of English. I would need another lifetime to learn it."
7
"One thing changes every evening: It's the audience, and I'm working my magic. I'm always learning from it."
7
"That which is given free is never knowledge. It may be information....but knowledge does not come in that manner."
7
"I'm writing a book and working on my one-woman show, Learning To Be Human."
7
"Most important, I have learned from my colleagues and students."
6
"You have to keep your sanity as well as know how to distance yourself from it while still holding onto the reins tightly. That is a very difficult thing to do, but I'm learning."
6
"The second half of the '60s really was a kind of learning period, in terms of writing, for me."
6
"As you get older, you're always maturing, you're always learning something new about yourself."
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