Learning
785 quotes: 49 by Keith Craft, 736 from other voices.
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- Knowledge is potential; action is power.
- Knowledge is power. (Ipsa Scientia Potestas Est)
- Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much; Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.
- Knowledge is the acquiring of facts, understanding is the interpreting of facts, wisdom the application.
- Knowledge is the compound interest of curiosity.
- Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of a wise man.
- Knowledge isn’t power until it is applied.
- Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
- Knowledge without practice is like a glass eye, all for show, and nothing for use.
- Knowledge without practice is useless. Practice without knowledge is dangerous.
- Labor is the best test of the energies of men, and furnishes an admirable training for practical wisdom.
- Learn as much as you can from those who know more than you do, who do better than you, who see more clearly than you.
- Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.
- Learn from the negative as well as the positive, from the failures as well as the successes.
- Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
- Learn from yesterday, live for today, look to tomorrow, rest this afternoon.
- Learn to admire rightly; the great pleasure of life is that. Note what the great men admired; they admired great things: narrow spirits admire basely, and worship meanly.
- Learn to live, and live to learn,Ignorance like a fire doth burn,Little tasks make large return.Bayard TaylorCommonly attributed
- Learned we may be with another man’s learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.
- Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.Abigail AdamsSourced
- Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.
- Learning is pleasurable, but doing is the height of enjoyment.
- Learning is really about translating knowing what to do into doing what we know.
- Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.
- Learning without thought is labour lost; thought without learning is perilous.
- Let every man, if possible, gather some good books under his roof.
- Let other people’s hindsight become your foresight.
- Let us carefully observe those good qualities wherein our enemies excel us; and endeavor to excel them, by avoiding what is faulty, and imitating what is excellent in them.
- Liberty without learning is always in peril; learning without liberty is always in vain.John F. KennedySourced
- Life is a learning experience, only if you learn.
- Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
- Life itself is your teacher, and you are in a state of constant learning.
- Life without learning is death.
- Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
- Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.
- Love is ever the beginning of knowledge.
- Love is ever the beginning of knowledge, as fire is of light; and works also more in the manner of fire.
- Making a wrong decision is understandable. Refusing to search continually for learning is not.
- Many people think of knowledge as of money. They would like knowledge, but cannot face the perseverance and self-denial that go to the acquisition of it.
- Many receive advice, few profit by it.