Learning
785 quotes: 49 by Keith Craft, 736 from other voices.
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- Master books, but do not let them master you. Read to live, not live to read.Edward Bulwer-LyttonSourced
- Men of sense often learn from their enemies.
- Men trust rather to their eyes than to their ears; the effect of precepts is therefore slow and tedious, whilst that of examples is summary and effectual.
- Mere knowledge is comparatively worthless unless digested into practical wisdom and common sense as applied to the affairs of life.
- Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton asked why.
- Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open.
- Mistakes and failures are precisely your means of education. They tell you about your own inadequacies.
- Mistakes are a part of life; you can't avoid them. All you can hope is that they won't be too expensive and that you don't make the same mistake twice.
- Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
- Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
- Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?
- More is got from one book on which the thought settles for a definite end in knowledge, than from libraries skimmed over by a wandering eye. A cottage flower gives honey to the bee, a king's garden none to the butterfly.
- Most everything I've done I've copied from somebody else.
- My opponent is my teacher, my ego is my enemy.
- My parents taught me how to listen to everybody before I made up my own mind. When you listen, you learn. You absorb like a sponge-and your life becomes so much better than when you are just trying to be listened to all the time.
- Never be limited by other people’s limited imaginations… If you adopt their attitudes, then the possibility won’t exist because you’ll have already shut it out… You can hear other people’s wisdom, but you’ve got to re-evaluate the world for yourself.
- Never lose a holy curiosity.
- Never write on a subject without having first read yourself full on it; and never read on a subject till you have thought yourself hungry on it.
- Next in importance to freedom and justice, is popular education, without which neither justice nor freedom can be permanently maintained.
- Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.
- Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
- No book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all.
- No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.
- No man can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.
- No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.
- No man ever said at the end of his days, "I have read my Bible too much, I have thought of God too much, I have prayed too much, I have been too careful about my soul.
- No man is born wise; but wisdom and virtue require a tutor; though we can easily learn to be vicious without a master.
- No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.
- No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.Peter F. DruckerCommonly attributed
- No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
- Nobody will use other people’s experience, nor have any of his own till it is too late to use it.
- Not education, but character, is man’s greatest need and man’s greatest safeguard.
- Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to continue always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.
- Nothing can supply the place of books. They are cheering or soothing companions in solitude, illness, affliction. The wealth of both continents would not compensate for the good they impart.
- Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.
- Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
- Nothing in this world is to be feared... only understood.
- Nothing is so difficult but that it may be found out by seeking.
- Nothing will teach you how to do something faster than trying and failing.
- Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.