Learning
785 quotes: 49 by Keith Craft, 736 from other voices.
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- Reading without purpose is sauntering, not exercise.
- Real knowledge consists not in an acquaintance with facts, which only makes a pedant, but in the use of facts, which makes a philosopher.
- Real knowledge, like everything else of value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, studied for, thought for, and, more than all, must be prayed for.
- Remember, every professional was once an amateur, and every master started as a beginner.
- Remember, to learn and not to do is really not to learn. To know and not to do is really not to know.
- Repetition is the mother not only of study, but of education.
- Repetition is the mother of learning, the father of action, which makes it the architect of accomplishment.
- Replace fear with curiosity.
- Research your own experience; absorb what is useful, reject what is useless and add what is essentially your own.
- Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.Horace MannSourced
- Responsibility educates.
- Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
- Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.
- Science is nothing but trained and organised common sense.
- Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
- Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject, to solve your doubts; for if you let it pass, the desire may never return, and you may remain in ignorance.
- Should you find a wise critic to point out your faults, follow him as you would a guide to hidden treasure.
- Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.Francis BaconSourced
- Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.Francis BaconCommonly attributed
- Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.
- Sometimes the best way to learn something is by doing it wrong and looking at what you did.
- Sometimes we may learn more from a man’s errors, than from his virtues.
- Sometimes you learn more from losing than winning. Losing forces you to re-evaluate.
- Sorrow has not been given us for sorrow's sake, but always as a lesson from which we are to learn somewhat, which once learned, it ceases to be sorrow.
- Stars may be seen from the bottom of a deep well, when they cannot be discerned from the top of a mountain. So are many things learned in adversity which the prosperous man dreams not of.
- Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.
- Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability.
- Study as if you know nothing. Work as if you can solve anything.
- Success does not consist in never making blunders, but in never making the same one the second time.
- Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.
- Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.
- Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.XunziCommonly attributed
- That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit.Amos Bronson AlcottCommonly attributed
- That is true cultivation which gives us sympathy with every form of human life, and enables us to work most successfully for its advancement. Refinement that carries us away from our fellow-men is not God’s refinement.
- That is why I say to any beginner: Learn your theories as well as you can, but put them aside when you touch the miracle of the living soul. Not theories, but your own creative individuality alone must decide.
- That which history can give us best is the enthusiasm which it raises in our hearts.
- The ability to learn is the most important quality a leader can have.
- The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think than what to think,--rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with the thoughts of other men.
- The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think than what to think.
- The aim of education should be to convert the mind into a living fountain, and not a reservoir. That which is filled by merely pumping in, will be emptied by pumping out.