Confucius
“Learning without thought is labor lost.”
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Paul Eldridge
“In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.”
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Buddhist Proverb
“When the student is ready, the master appears.”
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Martin H. Fischer
“All the world is a laboratory to the inquiring mind.”
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Author Unknown
“Repetition is the mother of learning.”
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Mark Twain
“Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.”
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Anonymous
“A library is a hospital for the mind.”
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Orson Scott Card
“In order to learn, one must change one's mind.”
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Ovid
“You can learn from anyone even your enemy.”
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Plato
“Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.”
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Anthony J. D'Angelo
“Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.”
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B.B. King
“The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.”
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Benjamin Franklin
“An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.”
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Cha'n Master Mingjiao
“Accumulate learning by study, understand what you learn by questioning.”
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Chinese proverb
“I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.”
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Albert Einstein
“It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.”
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Galileo Galilei
“I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.”
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Gandhi
“Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
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Robert Martin
“Responsibility for the learning belongs to the student, regardless of age.”
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Claude Bernard
“It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.”
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Confucius
“You cannot open a book without learning something.”
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Eartha Kitt
“I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.”
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Harry S Truman
“It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.”
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Ray LeBlond
“You learn something every day if you pay attention.”
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Chinese Proverb
“A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.”
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
“Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.”
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Antisthenes
“The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.”
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Abbé Dimnet
“Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.”
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Dudley Field Malone
“I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me.”
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Henry S. Haskins
“The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.”
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Marvin Minsky
“You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way.”
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Chinese Proverb
“Learning is like rowing upstream: not to advance is to drop back.”
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Abraham Lincoln
“I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.”
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Chinese Proverb
“Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.”
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Winston Churchill
“I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.”
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Willa Cather
“There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.”
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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
“There are many things which we can afford to forget which it is yet well to learn.”
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Vernon Howard
“Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn and you will.”
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Mary MacCracken
“Almost anything can become a learning experience if there is enough caring involved.”
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Martin H. Fischer
“It is not hard to learn more. What is hard is to unlearn when you discover yourself wrong.”
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Dana Stewart Scott
“Learn as much as you can while you are young, since life becomes too busy later.”
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Goethe
“I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better than book or orator.”
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Mortimer Adler
“The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.”
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Sydney Harris
“Most students treat knowledge as a liquid to be swallowed rather than as a solid to be chewed, and then they wonder why it provides little nourishment.”
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Henry Ford
“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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Abigail Adams
“Learning is not attained by chance. It must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.”
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Horace Mann
“A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on a cold iron.”
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John Locke
“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”
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Mortimer Adler
“In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.”
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Vilfredo Pareto
“Give me a fruitful error any time, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections. You can keep your sterile truth for yourself.”
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Jacob Bronowski
“It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.”
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Clay P. Bedford
“You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives.”
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Henry L. Doherty
“Get over the idea that only children should spend their time in study. Be a student so long as you still have something to learn, and this will mean all your life.”
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Lloyd Alexander
“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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Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
“Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.”
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Martin H. Fischer
“I find four great classes of students: The dumb who stay dumb. The dumb who become wise. The wise who go dumb. The wise who remain wise.”
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George Herbert Palmer
“I am defeated, and know it, if I meet any human being from whom I find myself unable to learn anything.”
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Alexander Pope
“Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.”
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Bernard Keble Sandwell
“I am what the librarians have made me with a little assistance from a professor of Greek and a few poets.”
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Alvin Toffler
“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.”
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Bill Vaughan
“People learn something every day, and a lot of times it's that what they learned the day before was wrong.”
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John Lubbock
“The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.”
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Richard G. Scott
“'I will consistently strive to learn by what I hear, see, and feel. I will write down the important things I learn, and I will do them.”
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Thomas Huxley
“Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.”
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Russell Hoban
“If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world has wasted a great deal of time.”
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Thomas Szasz
“Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily.”
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James Allen
“Life is a series of lessons. Some are diligent in learning them, and they become pure, wise, and altogether happy. Others are negligent, and do not apply themselves. They remain impure, foolish, and unhappy.”
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Martin H. Fischer
“The pupil can only educate himself. Teachers are the custodians of apparatus upon which he himself must turn and twist to acquire the excellencies that distinguish the better from the poorer of God's vessels.”
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Michael J. Gelb
“Research shows that you begin learning in the womb and go right on learning until the moment you pass on. Your brain has a capacity for learning that is virtually limitless, which makes every human a potential genius.”
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Lesley Conger
“The best of my education has come from the public library... my tuition fee is a bus fare and once in a while, five cents a day for an overdue book. You don't need to know very much to start with, if you know the way to the public library.”
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Frances Willard
“No matter how one may think himself accomplished, when he sets out to learn a new language, science, or the bicycle, he has entered a new realm as truly as if he were a child newly born into the world.”
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Earl Nightingale
“One hour per day of study in your chosen field is all it takes. One hour per day of study will put you at the top of your field within three years. Within five years you'll be a national authority. In seven years, you can be one of the best people in the world at what you do.”
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