Learning
785 quotes: 49 by Keith Craft, 736 from other voices.
Other voices on Learning
- Humility is absolutely necessary for true learning.
- Humility is the doorway to truth and clarity of objectives… it’s the doorway to learning.
- Humility will teach you knowledge, arrogance will teach you ignorance. If you think you know it all, you have learned nothing.
- I am always doing what I can't do yet in order to learn how to do it.
- I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.
- I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits.
- I beseech you, dear brethren, think it possible that you may be wrong.
- I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.
- I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.
- I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.
- I have learned that love is the most powerful force available to us. When we have real love we have the strength to perform miracles.
- I have learnt much from my teachers, more from my colleagues, and most from my students.Rabi HaninaCommonly attributed
- I have learnt through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmuted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmuted into a power which can move the world.
- I have made my limitations tools of learning and true joy.
- I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.
- I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.
- I have read somewhere or other in Dionysius of Halicarnassus, I think, that history is philosophy teaching by examples.
- I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
- I insist that the object of all true education is not to make men carpenters, it is to make carpenters men.
- I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
- I never learned anything when I was talking.
- I never view mistakes as failures. They are simply opportunities to find out what doesn't work.
- I quote others only the better to express myself.
- I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors; and I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be true views.
- I think a life properly lived is just learn, learn, learn all the time.
- I think I have learned that the best way to lift one's self up is to help someone else.
- I would trade all of my technology for an afternoon with Socrates.
- Ideas are everywhere, but knowledge is rare.
- If a man empties his purse into his head no man can take it from him. An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
- If any man is able to convince me and show me that I do not think or act right, I will gladly change; for I seek the truth, by which no man was ever injured. But he is injured who abides in his error and ignorance.
- If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
- If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than to any other talent.
- If I have made any improvement in the sciences, it is owing more to patient attention than to anything beside.
- If I have seen further it is by standing on ye sholders of Giants.
- If I read a book that cost me $20 and I get one good idea, I’ve gotten one of the greatest bargains of all time.
- If in the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead.
- If knowledge is power, then curiosity is the muscle.
- If the cultivation of the understanding consists in one thing more than in another, it is surely in learning the grounds of one’s own opinions.
- If thou love learning, thou shalt be learned.
- If we would improve our minds by conversation, it is a great happiness to be acquainted with persons wiser than ourselves.