Learning
785 quotes: 49 by Keith Craft, 736 from other voices.
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- The worst education that teaches self-denial is better than the best that teaches everything else and not that.
- There are no foolish questions, and no man becomes a fool until he has stopped asking questions.
- There are no mistakes, only lessons. If you don't learn the lesson the first time, they get harder.
- There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
- There are two types of knowledge. One is knowing a thing. The other is knowing where to find it.
- There is a difference between not knowing and not knowing yet.
- There is an artist imprisoned in each one of us. Let him loose to spread joy everywhere.
- There is nearly as much ability requisite to know how to profit by good advice as to know how to act for one's self.
- There is no better teacher than history in determining the future. There are answers worth billions of dollars in a $30 history book.
- There is no failure. Only feedback.
- There is no greater weapon than knowledge and no greater source of knowledge than the written word.
- There is no such thing as failure, only results.
- There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.
- There is nothing that makes a man suspect much, more than to know little; and, therefore, men should remedy suspicion by procuring to know more, and not to keep their suspicions to smother.
- There should be no shame in admitting to a mistake; after all, we really are only admitting that we are now wiser than we once were.
- There’s meaning in every failure. Find it.
- There’s no such thing as a “bad experience,” only an experience that we fail to utilize.
- There's only one thing more painful than learning from experience, and that is not learning from experience.
- They that will not be counselled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you on the knuckles.
- They that will not be counselled cannot be helped.
- Think like a scientist: treat your opinions as hypotheses and decisions as experiments.
- This education forms the common mind, Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.Alexander PopeSourced
- Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
- Those who educate children well are more to be honoured than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.
- Those who keep learning, will keep rising in life.
- Those who think they know it all have no way of finding out they don't.
- Those who will not read are no better off than those who cannot read.Jim RohnCommonly attributed
- Thou mayest as well expect to grow stronger by always eating, as wiser by always reading. Too much overcharges nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment.
- To accept good advice is but to increase one’s own ability.
- To acquire a few tongues is the task of a few years; but to be eloquent in one is the labour of a life.
- To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
- To be able to ask a question clearly is two-thirds of the way to getting it answered.
- To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.
- To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of ignorance.
- To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
- To furnish the means of acquiring knowledge is … the greatest benefit that can be conferred upon mankind. It prolongs life itself and enlarges the sphere of existence.
- To gain knowledge, we must learn to ask the right questions; and to get answers, we must act, not wait for answers to occur to us.
- To hear always, to think always, to learn always, it is thus that we live truly; he who aspires to nothing, and learns nothing, is not worthy of living.
- To know by rote is no knowledge; it is only a retention of what is intrusted to the memory. That which a man truly knows may be disposed of without regard to the author, or reference to the book from whence he had it.
- To know how to suggest is the art of teaching.