Learning
785 quotes: 49 by Keith Craft, 736 from other voices.
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- Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.
- One anecdote of a man is worth a volume of biography.
- One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world.
- One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1000 years. To read is to voyage through time.
- One good mother is worth a hundred schoolmasters.
- One of the most valuable things any person can learn is the art of using the knowledge and experience of others.
- Only if we understand, will we care. Only if we care, will we help. Only if we help shall all be saved.
- Only one who has learned much can fully appreciate his ignorance. He knows well the limits of his knowledge and how much is waiting to be learned.Louis L'AmourCommonly attributed
- Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient.
- Our bad memories and our bad experiences are what make us who we are and what make us grow and allow us to learn, if we choose to see the lessons in those experiences.
- Our bravest lessons are not learned through success, but misadventure.
- People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed.
- People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy after.
- People who don’t have time to learn always find time to make the same mistakes again and again. They go fast but not far.
- Perhaps one can learn only by one’s own mistakes. The essential thing is to learn. Learning and living.
- Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.
- Place before your eyes as models for imitation, not the weak and cowardly, but the fervent and courageous.
- Practice is the best of all instructors.
- Practice makes perfect, but it doesn’t make new.
- Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
- Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
- Principles are the important things; the more you have of them, the more knowledge you can carry.
- Prison itself is a tremendous education in the need for patience and perseverance.
- Professor Johnston often said that if you didn't know history, you didn't know anything. You were a leaf that didn't know it was part of a tree.
- Properly thou hast no other knowledge but what thou hast got by working.
- Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.
- Read books to gain knowledge. Take action to gain wisdom.
- Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.
- Read less, study less, but think more. Learn, both from your teachers and from the books which you read, only those things which you really need and which you really want to know.
- Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.
- Read nothing that you do not care to remember, and remember nothing you do not mean to use.
- Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking makes what we read ours.
- Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking makes what we read ours. So far as we apprehend and see the connection of ideas, so far it is ours; without that it is so much loose matter floating in our brain.
- Reading is how you learn from others. Writing is how you learn from yourself. Doing is how you truly deeply learn.
- Reading is thinking with another's head instead of one's own.
- Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
- Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.
- Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.
- Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.... Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
- Reading: One of the best ways to upgrade human software.