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Learning Quotes by John W. Gardner
- There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure-all your life.
- One of my less pleasant chores when I was young was to read the Bible from one end to the other. Reading the Bible straight…
- Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their…
- One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
- We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality…
- We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality…
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- All men by nature desire knowledge. — Aristotle
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- The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...' — Isaac Asimov
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- Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. — Marcus Aurelius