Learning Quotes

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Approaching a high learning curve is admirable, where as running into one is foolish.

Submitted by Paul Papageorge.
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Learning is not a spectator sport.
- D. Blocher

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Learning without thought is labor lost.
- Confucius

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Retention is best when the learner is involved.
- Edward Scannell

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Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.
- Mark Twain

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All the world is a laboratory to the inquiring mind.
- Martin H. Fischer

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The biggest enemy to learning is the talking teacher.
- John Holt

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It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts.
- Harry S. Truman

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In the spider web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
- Paul Eldridge

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His studies were pursued but never effectually overtaken.
- H.G. Wells

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I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
- Socrates

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Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
- Chinese Proverb

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The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
- John Powell

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Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.
- Oscar Wilde

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I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.
- Eartha Kitt

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Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty.
- Henry Ford

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There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.
- Willa Cather

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Learning is like rowing upstream: not to advance is to drop back.
- Chinese Proverb

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You don’t understand anything until you learn it more than one way.
- Marvin Minsky

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The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.
- Henry S. Haskins

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Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough we must do.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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I don’t think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
- Abraham Lincoln

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Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
- B. F. Skinner

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Learn as much as you can while you are young, since life becomes too busy later.
- Dana Stewart

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Personally, I am always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
- Winston Churchill

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There are many things which we can afford to forget which it is yet well to learn.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

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The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.
- Antisthenes

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You have learned something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.
- H.G. Wells

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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.
- Octavio Paz

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Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.
- Abbé Dimnet

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I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
- Albert Einstein

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Some, for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote.
- Edward Young

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It is not hard to learn more. What is hard is to unlearn when you discover yourself wrong.
- Martin H. Fischer

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Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

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I am defeated, and know it, if I meet any human being from whom I find myself unable to learn anything.
- George Herbert Palmer

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People learn something every day, and a lot of times it’s that what they learned the day before was wrong.
- Bill Vaughan

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We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.
- Lloyd Alexander

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To know yet to think that one does not know is best;Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.
- Lao Tzu

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The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.
- John Lubbock

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Give me a fruitful error any time, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections. You can keep your sterile truth for yourself.
- Vilfredo Pareto

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