Learning
785 quotes: 49 by Keith Craft, 736 from other voices.
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- A thing is never too often repeated which is never sufficiently learned.
- A traveler without observation is a bird without wings.
- Absorb what is useful, discard what is not, add what is uniquely your own.
- After all, the purpose of learning isn't to affirm our beliefs; it's to evolve our beliefs.
- After conforming with the tenet, "Know Thyself," it would be fitting if the next command were, "Use Thyself," for no knowledge is worthy of the name if it is not potent enough to inspire action.
- Age 80. — Anyone who stops learning is old, whether this happens at 20 or at 80. Anyone who keeps on learning not only remains young, but becomes constantly more valuable, regardless of physical capacity.
- All knowledge is of itself of some value. There is nothing so minute, or inconsiderable, that I would not rather know it than not.
- All leaders are readers.
- All that mankind has done, thought, gained, or been, it is all lying in magic preservation in the pages of books.
- All things are difficult before they are easy.
- All types of knowledge, ultimately mean self knowledge.
- Along with intellectual curiosity, we need interpersonal curiosity. Taking an interest in other people is the beginning of empathy.
- An intelligent mind is one which is constantly learning, never concluding.
- An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things.
- An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
- An ounce of heart knowledge is worth a ton of head learning.
- Any man may make a mistake, but none but a fool will continue in it.
- Any one who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.
- Anyone who isn’t embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn’t learning enough.
- Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
- Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don’t just stand there, make it happen.
- As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
- As long as you live, keep learning how to live.
- As soon as a true thought has entered our mind, it gives a light which makes us see a crowd of other objects which we have never perceived before.
- As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without culture, so the mind without cultivation can never produce good fruit.
- As turning the logs will make a dull fire burn, so change of studies a dull brain.
- At every moment, you should be reading the best book you know of in the world for you.Patrick CollisonCommonly attributed
- Be as careful of the books you read as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as the latter.
- Be brave, take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.
- Be dumb enough to try but smart enough to learn.
- Be good, be learned, and be industrious, and you will not want the aid of travelling, to render you precious to your country, dear to your friends, happy within yourself.
- Be humble. Be teachable. The universe is bigger than your view of the universe. There’s always room for a new idea.
- Be not sorry that men do not know you, but be sorry that you are ignorant of men.
- Be observing constantly. Stay open-minded. Be eager to learn and improve.
- Be thankful for your failures. They reveal the winning strategies.
- Be very slow to believe that you are wiser than all others; it is a fatal but common error. Where one has been saved by a true estimation of another's weakness, thousands have been destroyed by a false appreciation of their own strength.
- Becoming is better than being.
- Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.
- Better to be unborn, than untaught; for ignorance is the root of misfortune.
- Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.