Learning
785 quotes: 49 by Keith Craft, 736 from other voices.
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- The great end of education is, to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulations of others.
- The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
- The great lesson of biography is to show what man can be and do at his best. A noble life put fairly on record acts like an inspiration to others.
- The great lesson of Biography is to show what man can be and do at his best.
- The great man loves the conversation or the book that convicts him, not that which soothes or flatters him.
- The greatest enemy of learning is knowing.
- The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.
- The hardest lessons to learn is that you’re more capable than you think you are.
- The heavens and the earth, the woods and the wayside, teem with instruction and knowledge to the curious and thoughtful.
- The highest form of self-confidence is believing in your ability to learn.
- The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn.
- The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.
- The important thing is not to stop questioning.
- The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments and is yet willing to learn more.
- The key is to fail, learn, and improve quickly.
- The love of reading enables a man to exchange the wearisome hours of life, which come to every one, for hours of delight.
- The lower a man descends in his love, the higher he lifts his life.
- The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.
- The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them.
- The man who graduates... today and stops learning tomorrow is uneducated the day after.
- The man who has acquired the habit of study, though for only one hour every day in the year, and keeps to the one thing studied till it is mastered, will be startled to see the way he has made at the end of a twelvemonth.
- The man who lies down a fool at night, hoping that he will waken wise in the morning, will rise up in the morning as he laid down in the evening.
- The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
- The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.
- The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.
- The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
- The mind is not a vessel which calls for filling. It is a pile, which simply requires kindling-wood to start the flame of eagerness for original thought and ardour for truth.
- The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.
- The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.
- The mind that opens to a new idea never returns to its original size.
- The minute you learn something, turn around and teach it to others.
- The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.
- The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don't know.
- The more I learn, the more excited I get.
- The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.
- The more you do, the more you fail. The more you fail, the more you learn. The more you learn, the better you get.
- The most important investment you can make is in yourself.
- The most important thing to learn in school is that you can learn almost anything, and so you shouldn’t let not knowing about something be an excuse for not doing what you want to do. Go focus and study.
- The most successful people in life are the ones who ask questions. They're always learning. They're always growing. They're always pushing.
- The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake. You can't learn anything from being perfect.