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Learning Quotes
"As we explore new ways of thinking, we need to be willing to investigate, experiment, take some risks with our attention, and stretch."
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"Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty."
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"How'd you get to be so good at this?""I had a good teacher.""Better not have been Myrnin or I'll have to kick his predatory ass.""I mean you, dummy.""Oh."
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"A benchmarking mind is an "interpreter mind which can bridge the gaps."
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"I do not play this instrument so well as I should wish to, but I have always supposed that to be my own fault because I would not take the trouble of practicing."
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"The classes were valuable, but the real education was the game."
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"A thing is never learned until we master it."
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"Always see the opportunity brought along with every problem you face."
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"It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others."
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"I do not know where the error lies. I do not pretend to set people right, but I do see that they are often wrong."
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"Study me in my slow and patient demise. Watch what happens to me. Learn with me."
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"I see you like to study, I said. "Well done.Percy snorted. "I hate to study. I've been guaranteed admission with a full scholarship to New Rome University, but they're still requiring me to pass all my high school courses and score well on the SAT. Can you believe that? Not to mention I have to pass the DSTOMP."The what? Meg asked."An exam for Roman demigods, I told her. "The Demigod Standard Test of Mad Powers.Percy frowned. "That's what it stands for?"I should know. I wrote the music and poetry analysis sections."I will never forgive you for that, Percy said."
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"Those who know ask to receive. Those who understand seek to experience or find. Those that are wise knock on open doors."
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"It is good," he thought "to taste for yourself everything you need to know. That worldly pleasures and wealth are not good things, I learned even as a child. I knew it for a long time, but only now have I experienced it. And now I know it, I know it not only because I remember hearing it, but with my eyes, with my heart, with my stomach. And it is good for me to know it!"
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"Life is a continuous learning experience."
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"With every book, you go back to school. You become a student. You become an investigative reporter. You spend a little time learning what it's like to live in someone else's shoes."
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"Actually, all education is self-education. A teacher is only a guide, to point out the way, and no school, no matter how excellent, can give you education. What you receive is like the outlines in a child's coloring book. You must fill in the colors yourself."
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"The easiest way to have a peek behind the curtain is to learn from those that are ahead of you."
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"He lived in sight of both worlds, but he looked toward the unknown. And he was a scholar.... You can still live on that shimmering line between your old thinking and your new understanding, always in a state of learning. In the figurative sense, this is a border that is always moving-- as you advance forward in your studies and realizations, that mysterious forest of the unknown always stays a few feet ahead of you, so you have to travel light in order to keep following it. You have to stay mobile, movable, supple."
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"Learn, or you'll be made to learn."
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"If literature has engaged me as a project, first as a reader, then as a writer, it is as an extension of my sympathies to other selves, other domains, other dreams, other territories."
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"What better occupation, really, than to spend the evening at the fireside with a book, with the wind beating on the windows and the lamp burning bright...Haven't you ever happened to come across in a book some vague notion that you've had, some obscure idea that returns from afar and that seems to express completely your most subtle feelings?"
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"Every child's taste is different. Don't worry if they're not reading 'War and Peace' at age 12. First, build a good foundation and a positive attitude about reading by letting them pick the stories they enjoy. Make friends with a bookseller or librarian. They are a wealth of information on finding books that kids enjoy."
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"Lack teaches you the importance of what you are lacking."
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"After you acquire knowledge and skill, aim to be a practitioner. Time for practice on the job or in life will still test your authenticity. Knowledge is one of the greatest sources of confidence, and you will need that confidence to do your work and demonstrate you know what you have been trained for."
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"Nobody was born a master, amateurs become experts because they did not give up on learning. You are going as far as you can if you'll learn and apply!"
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"The knowledge you acquire in an area of study is accompanied by an incalculable ignorance. The farther we get into anything, we learn that we have even farther to go."
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"Take the time every day to teach and train yourself how to ask empowering questions. Those who ask the right questions change the world."
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"We are always learning, we just have different teachers."
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"A lifelong learner is a lifelong winner."
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"Self-education begins with the passion to read the Scriptures."
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"Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame."
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"It was a lesson that I would learn in time though it wasn't Hegbert who taught me."
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