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- Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.
- Abigail Adams (1744 - 1818), 1780
- It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies; seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends.
- Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832)
- Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.
- Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), The Confucian Analects
- That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.
- Doris Lessing
- Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient.
- Eugene S. Wilson
- Whoso neglects learning in his youth,
Loses the past and is dead for the future. - Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC), Phrixus
- Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student.
- George Iles
- The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
- George Santayana (1863 - 1952)
- Much learning does not teach understanding.
- Heraclitus (540 BC - 480 BC), On the Universe
- Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked.
- Lord Chesterfield (1694 - 1773)
- We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.
- Malcolm Gladwell, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, 2005
- Anyone who stops learning is old, whether twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing you can do is keep your mind young.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- Never learn to do anything: if you don't learn, you'll always find someone else to do it for you.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers.
- Martina Horner, President of Radcliffe College
- Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.
- Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919)
- Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.
- W. Edwards Deming (1900 - 1993)
- You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers. You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
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