Learning
785 quotes: 49 by Keith Craft, 736 from other voices.
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- To know is not to be wise. To know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.
- To know how to wonder and question is the first step of the mind toward discovery.
- To know that you do not know is the best.To pretend to know when you do not know is a disease.
- To learn is to be young, however old.
- To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.
- To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illumine only the track it has passed.
- To own a Fault is but to say, "I'm Wiser Now than Yesterday.
- To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
- To teach is to learn twice.
- To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but what he aspires to.
- To use books rightly is to go to them for help.
- To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully.
- Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.
- Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
- True education does not consist merely in the acquiring of a few facts of science, history, literature, or art, but in the development of character.
- True Success is that which makes Building Stones of Old Mistakes.
- Try to put well in practice what you already know; and in so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things which you now inquire about. Practice what you know, and it will help to make clear what now you do not know.
- Ultimately, it comes down to taste. It comes down to trying to expose yourself to the best things that humans have done and then try to bring those things into what you’re doing.
- Ultimately there is no such thing as failure. There are lessons learned in different ways.
- Unless we learn the lessons of history we are doomed to repeat them.
- Victims have big TVs. Leaders own large libraries.
- Vitally important for a young man or woman is, first, to realize the value of education and then to cultivate earnestly, aggressively, ceaselessly, the habit of self-education.
- We become wise by observing what happens when we're not.
- We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.
- We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.
- We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys.
- We can only learn to love by loving.
- We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
- We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
- We find comfort among those who agree with us – growth among those who don’t.
- We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community.
- We have more information now than we can use, and less knowledge and understanding than we need.
- We have to keep our minds and hearts open, and never be ashamed to learn, with the assistance of those who are wiser and more experienced than ourselves.
- We must not be timid from a fear of committing faults: the greatest fault of all is to deprive oneself of experience.
- We must not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time.
- We need to teach how doubt is not to be feared but welcomed. It's OK to say, "I don't know.
- We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.
- We should accustom the mind to keep the best company by introducing it only to the best books.
- We should always keep a corner of our heads open and free, that we may make room for the opinions of our friends. Let us have heart and head hospitality.
- We should ask not who is the most learned, but who is the best learned.