Learning
785 quotes: 49 by Keith Craft, 736 from other voices.
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- If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.
- If you didn’t learn these things in order to demonstrate them in practice, what did you learn them for?
- If you don’t make mistakes, you’re not working on hard enough problems. And that’s a mistake.
- If you give a man a fish he is hungry again in an hour. If you teach him to catch a fish you do him a good turn.Anne Isabella RitchieSourced
- If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you, and you'll never learn.Ray BradburyCommonly attributed
- If you learn from defeat, then you haven't really lost!
- If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
- If you plan for a year, plant a seed. If for ten years, plant a tree. If for a hundred years, teach the people. When you sow a seed once, you will reap a single harvest. When you teach the people, you will reap a hundred harvests.Kuan ChungSourced
- If you think education is expensive -- try ignorance.Robert OrbenSourced
- If you want new ideas, read old books.
- If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
- If you want to get smart, the question you have to keep asking is why, why, why, why?
- If you want to learn something, read about it. If you want to understand something, write about it. If you want to master something, teach it.
- If you wish to appear agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you know already.
- If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
- If you’re not listening, you’re not learning.
- If you’re struggling, you’re learning.
- Ignorance is a choice. Curiosity is a cure. It motivates people to educate themselves.
- Ignorance never settles a question.
- Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution.
- Imitation is the sincerest flattery.Charles Caleb ColtonCommonly attributed
- Imparting knowledge is only lighting other men's candle at our lamp, without depriving ourselves of any flame.
- Imperfect knowledge is the parent of doubt: thorough and honest research dispels it.
- In modern society, most people have access to the same information. People are distinguished much more by the questions they ask than by the answers they have access to.
- In my whole life, I have known no wise people who didn’t read all the time — none, zero.
- In science read the newest works; in literature, the oldest.Edward Bulwer-LyttonCommonly attributed
- In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s mind there are few.
- In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you.Mortimer AdlerSourced
- In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection; otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books.
- In the growth mindset, talent is something you build on and develop, not something you simply display to the world.
- Information is just bits of data. Knowledge is putting them together. Wisdom is transcending them.
- Instruction ends in the school-room, but education ends only with life. A child is given to the universe to be educated.
- Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.
- It is always in season for old men to learn.AeschylusCommonly attributed
- It is better to create than to be learned; creating is the true essence of life.
- It is better to start as a fool and learn from your mistakes than to fake being a genius and ignore your errors.
- It is by being conversant with the inventions of others that we learn to invent, as by reading the thoughts of others we learn to think.
- It is by imitation, far more than by precept, that we learn everything; and what we learn thus we acquire not only more effectually, but more pleasantly. This forms our manners, our opinions, our lives.
- It is by imitation, more than by precept, that we learn anything.
- It is easy to learn something about every thing, but difficult to learn everything about anything.