Learning Quotes
6496 quotes by 3451 authors
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But the three siblings were not born yesterday. Violet was born more than fifteen years before this particular Wednesday, and Klaus was born approximately two…
— Daniel Handler
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Growth begins when we start to accept our own weakness
— Jean Vanier
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Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?
— George W. Bush
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If the account given in Genesis is really true, ought we not, after all, to thank this serpent? He was the first schoolmaster, the first…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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As long as the centuries continue to unfold, the number of books will grow continually, and one can predict that a time will come when…
— Denis Diderot
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The problem with learning the truth about things is that you lose the confidence that comes from being dumb.
— D.B.C. Pierre
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People who cling to their illusions find it difficult, if not impossible, to learn anything worth learning: a people under the necessity of creating themselves…
— James A. Baldwin
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Aren’t you afraid they’ll arrest you? (Shahara) I wasn’t a convict, Dagan. I was an illegally purchased slave. My owner has no legal claim on…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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But I do think that when people say 'a learning curve,' they make a mistake. Learning to me always seems to go in a straight,…
— Diana Wynne Jones
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His mouth captured hers, trying to show her with his kiss what he was still learning to express in words. He loved her. He worshipped…
— Julia Quinn
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You know everything and you know nothing… And in that there’s this: You will always learn something new. About him. About her. About yourself. And…
— Pamela Ribon
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We may please ourselves with the prospect of free and popular governments. But there is great danger that those governments will not make us happy.…
— John Adams
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If there was one thing she was learning from all this, it was how easy it was to lose everything you had always thought you'd…
— Cassandra Clare
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He endeared himself to me forever the first night we met, when I was getting frustrated with my inability to find the words I wanted…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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If you did not in your own mind distinguish between useful and erroneous information, then you were not learning at all, you were merely replacing…
— Orson Scott Card
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...there must be a sequence to learning, that perseverance and a certain measure of perspiration are indispensable, that individual pleasures must frequently be submerged in…
— Neil Postman
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School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is.
— Ivan Illich
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Genius is an exceedingly common human quality, probably natural to most of us.
— John Taylor Gatto
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I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays and have things arranged for them that they seem so forlornly unable to…
— Agatha Christie
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There was some sadness in how that could happen, Tai thought: falling out of love with something that had shaped you. Or even people who…
— Guy Gavriel Kay
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