Learning Quotes · Page 409

“If you want to understand language, spend less time in the library with Plato and more time on the buses with people.”

— Plato

There are astonishing stories of heroism not only in preventing bloodshed, but in building understanding which lasts.

— Scilla Elworthy

“Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.” —Confucius”

— Richard Oppenlander

“You learn more from getting your butt kicked than getting it kissed.”

— Tom Hanks

All possibility of understanding is rooted in the ability to say no.

— Susan Sontag

The last thing that man will understand in nature is the performance of his brain.

— John Eccles

Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much.

— William Godwin

“The most crucial problem with intellectual learning is that it receives the unknown on the grounds of the known.”

— Raheel Farooq

We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.

— Malcolm X

My style is an extension of acting and an outcome of some serious lessons I picked up learning when I did theatre…

— Kapil Sharma

“You learn new when you teach,if you are not picking up relative points to facilitating your own learning that is simply because…

— Nwilliams S C

“Understanding is not about progress; its about process. What we may finally come to understand is that we won't,can't,understand and that incomprehension…

— John Dufresne

I learned a lot from the various artists I produced. Either you see them doing something that you do want to do…

— Walter Becker

I love Africa. I am very grateful for everything I have in Europe but everything I'm learning I want to help my…

— Kolo Toure

“we have some good ideas here. But the only way to know if they’re workable is to try to make them fail.…

— Orson Scott Card

“Understanding is the conduct. “I” tell you not to bring it into conduct. Nothing will be gained from teaching forced conduct. To…

— Dada Bhagwan

“But willpower is necessary only where _ability_ to do is lacking. Learning ... is not the training of willpower but the acquisition…

— Moshé Feldenkrais

And liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people who have a right from the frame of their nature…

— John Adams

I was perhaps lucky to be born in a single-parent home where my mother, Shirin Mohammed Ali, was the sole figure I…

— Mahesh Bhatt

Microsoft knows that reliable software is not cost effective. According to studies, 90% to 95% of all bugs are harmless. They're never…

— Bruce Schneier

“To me, knowing how to do something is like cheating. That's why I never studied in grade school. Studying made passing tests…

— Gary Reilly

You only learn when you give your whole being to something. When you give your whole being to mathematics,you learn; but when…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

One might suppose that reality must be held to at all costs. However, though that may be the moral thing to do,…

— Isaac Asimov

There's a term, agape, you hear used a lot with charismatic religious groups, that it's this more pure love of caring, of…

— Phil Jackson

I think we learned that we need to be sharp in every situation in every game.

— Martin Odegaard

“I get a glimpse of the mind of many souls from their sacred books.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

If I have learned one thing in life, it is never to take any man's own estimate of himself. He could very…

— Johann Lamont

“The model we choose to use to understand something determines what we find.”

— Iain McGilchrist

You'll have a lot more respect for a bird after you try making a nest.

— Cynthia Lewis

The mind does not easily unlearn what it has been long in learning.

— Seneca the Younger

Success in the marketplace increasingly depends on learning. Yet most people don't know how to learn.

— Chris Argyris

We must establish a personal connection with each other. Connection before content. Without relatedness, no work can occur.

— Peter Block

“If it is beyond your understanding, it probably makes perfect sense.”

— Tracee Ford

It is rare to find learned men who are clean, do not stink and have a sense of humour.

— Baron de Montesquieu

English? Who needs to spend time learning that? I'm never going to England!

— Dan Castellaneta

The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as youre learning, youre not old.

— Anonymous

Ordinary human laws are the means - however imperfect - by which we express our understanding of the enduring moral law.

— Russell Kirk

Culture is the possibility and impossibility that bacon and fruit can appear on the same plate.

— Andy Hargreaves

“Strange as it seems, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and higher education positively fortifies it.”

— Stephen Vizinczey

True knowledge comes to each of us when we notice how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

— Anonymous