Learning
785 quotes: 49 by Keith Craft, 736 from other voices.
Other voices on Learning
- It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
- It is impossible completely to understand what we do not love.
- It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
- It is never too late to become reasonable and wise.
- It is not a question how much a man knows, but what use he can make of what he knows.
- It is not hard to learn more. What is hard is to unlearn when you discover yourself wrong.
- It is not how much you have learned, but how much you have absorbed in what you have learned.
- It is not reasonable to put out our candle, and sit still in the dark, because we have not the light of sun-beams.
- It is not so important to know everything as to know the exact value of everything, to appreciate what we learn, and to arrange what we know.
- It is not the knowledge, but the use which is made of it that is productive of real benefit.
- It is not the reading of many books that is necessary to make a man wise and good, but the well-reading of a few.
- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
- It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
- It is well to go for a light to another man's fire, but by no means to tarry by it.
- It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything.
- It is what you learn after you know it all that counts.
- It must be remembered that the purpose of education is not to fill the minds of students with facts... it is to teach them to think.
- It takes a great deal of living to get a little deal of learning.
- It takes a passionate commitment to thoroughly understand something—chew it up, not just quickly swallow it.
- It was a saying of his that education was an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
- It's always helpful to learn from your mistakes because then your mistakes seem worthwhile.
- It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.
- It's good to learn from your mistakes. It's better to learn from other people's mistakes.
- It’s not about money or connections – it’s the willingness to outwork and outlearn everyone.
- Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.
- Just as iron rusts unless it is used, and water putrifies or, in cold, turns to ice, so our intellect spoils unless it is kept in use.
- Just start. You will learn so many lessons just by doing.
- Know all there is to be known about the position you occupy, but ever feel that there is more for you to learn.
- Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.
- Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
- Knowledge and human power are synonymous, since the ignorance of the cause frustrates the effect.
- Knowledge by rote is no knowledge, it is only a retention of what has been intrusted to the memory.
- Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
- Knowledge conquered by labour becomes a possession--a property entirely our own.
- Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.Peter F. DruckerCommonly attributed
- Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
- Knowledge is more than equivalent to force. The master of mechanicks laughs at strength.
- Knowledge is not a shop for profit or sale, but a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator, and the relief of men's estate.
- Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
- Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.