Learning
785 quotes: 49 by Keith Craft, 736 from other voices.
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- Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought.
- Books are embalmed minds.
- Books are infinite in number and time is short. The secret of knowledge is to take what is essential.
- Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.
- Books are the legacies that genius leaves to mankind, to be delivered down from generation to generation, as presents to those that are yet unborn.
- Books are the true levellers. They give to all who faithfully use them the society, the spiritual presence, of the best and greatest of our race.
- Books are the windows through which the soul looks out. A house without books is like a room without windows.
- Books still accomplish miracles; they persuade men.
- By seeking and blundering we learn.
- By three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is the noblest; second, by imitation, which is the easiest; and third, by experience, which is the bitterest.
- Change is the end result of all true learning.
- Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.
- Creativity is intelligence having fun.
- Creativity is just connecting things.
- Cultivate Curiosity. If you really want to grow in your lifetime, learn to be as inquisitive as a child. Curious people are never bored, and for them life becomes an unending study of joy.
- Cultivation is as necessary to the mind as food to the body.
- Curiosity and questions will get you further than confidence and answers.
- Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect. Every advance into knowledge opens new prospects, and produces new incitements to further progress.
- Curiosity is the engine of achievement.
- Curiosity is the spark of discovery. Discipline is the fuel of progress.
- Deeply understanding the basics in any field will put you miles ahead of your competitors.
- Defeat is nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better.
- Develop into a lifelong self-learner through voracious reading; cultivate curiosity and strive to become a little wiser every day.
- Diffused knowledge immortalizes itself.
- Do not ask if a man has been through college; ask if a college has been through him; if he is a walking university.
- Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.
- Do not be guilty of possessing a library of learned books while lacking learning yourself.
- Do not, then, train boys to learning by force and harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be the better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.
- Do not try to satisfy your vanity by teaching a great many things. Awaken people's curiosity. It is enough to open minds; do not overload them. Put there just a spark. If there is some good inflammable stuff, it will catch fire.
- Do you know a book that you are willing to put under your head for a pillow when you lie dying? That is the book you want to study while you are living. There is but one such book in the world.
- Don't be the ammunition wagon, be the rifle … knowledge exists primarily for use.Carl RogersSourced
- Don't despair of a student if he has one clear idea.
- Don't just learn something from every experience, learn something positive.
- Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.
- Don’t let your learning lead to knowledge. Let your learning lead to action.
- Don’t take advice from someone who’s never played the part.
- Each time you fail, you have eliminated another wrong option.
- Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.
- Education does not mean teaching people to know what they do not know; it means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.
- Education has for its object the formation of character.