Learning
785 quotes: 49 by Keith Craft, 736 from other voices.
Other voices on Learning
- Failure is success if we learn from it.
- Failure is the information you need to get where you’re going.
- Feel that you can always learn something from somebody else.
- Few minds wear out; more rust out.
- Fools need Advice most, but wise Men only are the better for it.
- For knowledge, too, is itself a power.
- For the things we have to learn before we can do, we learn by doing.AristotleSourced
- Force yourself to reflect on what you read, paragraph by paragraph.
- Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.
- Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
- Friends show me what I can do; foes teach me what I should do.
- From that moment, I understood the pathway from slavery to freedom.
- From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
- Get a feedback loop and listen to it. … When people give you feedback, cherish it and use it.
- Go to bed smarter than when you woke up.
- God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.
- Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.Rita Mae BrownSourced
- Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theatre.Gail GodwinCommonly attributed
- Graduation is not the end of education, as many seem to think, but the beginning. The world lies before you in exuberant fruitfulness — reach out for its delights.
- Habit is a cable. We weave a thread of it every day, and at last we cannot break it.Horace MannSourced
- He is to be educated not because he is to make shoes, nails, and pins, but because he is a man.
- He is truly wise who gains wisdom from another's mishap.
- He that is not aware of his ignorance will be only misled by his knowledge.
- He that is not open to conviction is not qualified for discussion.
- He that is warned by all the folly of others, has attained the soundest wisdom.
- He that loves reading, has everything within his reach. He has but to desire, and he may possess himself of every species of wisdom to judge and power to perform.
- He that loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter.
- He that questioneth much will learn much.
- He that studies books alone, will know how things ought to be; and he that studies men will know how things are.
- He that voluntarily continues ignorant is guilty of all the crimes which ignorance produces.
- He that voluntarily continues ignorant, is guilty of all the crimes which ignorance produces: as to him that should extinguish the tapers of a lighthouse might justly be imputed the calamities of shipwrecks.
- He that won’t be counsell’d, can’t be help’d.
- He who calls in the aid of an equal understanding doubles his own; and he who profits by a superior understanding raises his powers to a level with the height of the superior understanding he unites with.
- He who cherishes his old knowledge, so as continually to acquire new, he may be a teacher of others.
- He who has imagination without learning has wings and no feet.
- He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that.
- He who learns but does not think, is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.
- He who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
- How our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what was at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment.
- Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.