Learning Quotes
6496 quotes by 3451 authors
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Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well…
— Richard Bach
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An easy life doesn't teach us anything. In the end it's the learning that matters: what we've learned and how we've grown
— Richard Bach
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Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth,…
— M. Scott Peck
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Experience by itself teaches nothing... Without theory, experience has no meaning. Without theory, one has no questions to ask. Hence, without theory, there is no…
— W. Edwards Deming
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She was already learning that if you ignore the rules people will, half the time, quietly rewrite them so that they don't apply to you.
— Terry Pratchett
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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and…
— George Bernard Shaw
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What is a teacher? I'll tell you: it isn't someone who teaches something, but someone who inspires the student to give of her best in…
— Paulo Coelho
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. . . What do you wish to be? What would you like to become?†I did not know, and I told her so, but…
— Louis L'Amour
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The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Literature is the safe and traditional vehicle through which we learn about the world and pass on values from on generation to the next. Books…
— Laurie Anderson
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If you don't believe in God, it may help to remember this great line of Geneen Roth's: that awareness is learning to keep yourself company.…
— Anne Lamott
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...it's not just learning that's important. It's learning what to do with what you learn and learning why you learn things that matters.
— Norton Juster
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When you learn, teach, when you get, give.
— Maya Angelou
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A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.
— Frank Herbert
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Defeat exists but not suffering. A true warrior knows that when he loses a battle, he is improving the skill with which he wields a…
— Paulo Coelho
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Just as our parents quieted us when we were noisy by putting us in front of the television set, maybe we're now learning to quiet…
— Elizabeth Wurtzel
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I kept finding the same anguish, the same doubt; a self-contempt that neither irony nor intellect seemed able to deflect. Even DuBois’s learning and Baldwin’s…
— Barack Obama
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I must study Politicks and War that my sons may have liberty to study Mathematicks and Philosophy. My sons ought to study Mathematicks and Philosophy,…
— John Adams
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pity me that the heart is slow to learn what the swift mind beholds at every turn.
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
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To accept one’s past – one’s history – is not the same thing as drowning in it; it is learning how to use it. An…
— James A. Baldwin
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