Learning
785 quotes: 49 by Keith Craft, 736 from other voices.
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- The object of education is not to fill a man's mind with facts; it is to teach him how to use his mind in thinking.
- The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.
- The one exclusive sign of a thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.
- The one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention.
- The only jewel which will not decay is knowledge.
- The only sure way to avoid making mistakes is to have no new ideas.
- The pain will leave once it has finished teaching you.
- The person seeking to learn wins what the person seeking to impress loses.
- The person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
- The point is not that men should have a great many books, but that they should have the right ones, and that they should use those that they have.
- The proactive approach to a mistake is to acknowledge it instantly, correct and learn from it.
- The purpose of knowledge is action, not knowledge.
- The quality of your thoughts is determined by the quality of your reading.
- The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
- The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.
- The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.
- The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
- The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil.
- The smartest people I know don’t think they’re smart, which must be why they keep getting smarter.
- The student who lays the bricks must learn to lay each brick as well as it is possible for him to lay it, and then do still better work on the morrow.
- The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
- The teachers are everywhere. What is wanted is a learner.Wendell BerryCommonly attributed
- The travelled mind is the catholic mind, educated out of exclusiveness and egotism.
- The true aim of every one who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds.
- The true art of memory is the art of attention.
- The true order of learning should be first, what is necessary; second, what is useful; and third, what is ornamental. To reverse this arrangement is like beginning to build at the top of the edifice.
- The true purpose of education is to cherish and unfold the seed of immortality already sown within us; to develop, to their fullest extent, the capacities of every kind with which the God who made us has endowed us.Anna Brownell JamesonCommonly attributed
- The true voyage of discovery is not a journey to a new place; it is learning to see with new eyes.
- The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think.
- The way to learn to earn a living is to go at it and earn a living.Elbert HubbardCommonly attributed
- The way to learn whether a person is trustworthy is to trust him.Ernest HemingwayCommonly attributed
- The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards; and curiosity itself can be vivid and wholesome only in proportion as the mind is contented and happy.Anatole FranceSourced
- The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.
- The wisdom of the wise and the experience of ages may be preserved by quotation.
- The wise are those who travel through error to truth; the foolish are those who persist in their error.
- The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
- The world does not require so much to be informed as reminded.
- The world is a great book, of which they who never stir from home read only a page.
- The world is your teacher. When you are always looking to learn, you will stop underestimating others. Humility will dawn in your life.
- The worst decision most adults make is to stop asking questions — trading their curiosity for the appearance of competence.