Quotes by category:Learning

Learning can be a bridge between doing and thinking. But then there is a danger that the person who uses learning as a bridge between doing and thinking may get stuck in learning and never get on to thinking.

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Anything, everything, can be learned if you can just get yourself in a little patch of real ground, real nature, real wood, real anything ? and just sit still and watch.

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The most important advice I can offer is that writing is a craft that you can learn by practicing. If you keep writing, you will improve.

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The future is won or lost in the war of ideas.

Laurence Overmire

learning war ideas

Recognizing your own ignorance is the first step toward wisdom.

Laurence Overmire

learning ignorance firsts

Literature is the safe and traditional vehicle through which we learn about the world and pass on values from on generation to the next. Books save lives.

Laurie Anderson

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Learning is the dictionary, but sense the grammar of science. by Laurence Sterne

Learning is the dictionary, but sense the grammar of science.

Laurence Sterne

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He who knows much about others may be learned, but he who understands himself is more intelligent. He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.

learning intelligent powerful

He was twenty. I remembered twenty. I'd known everything at twenty. It took me another year to realize I knew nothing. I was still hoping to learn something before I hit thirty, but I wasn't holding my breath.

Laurell K. Hamilton

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Today in America vast concourses of youth are flocking to our colleges, eager for something, just what they do not know.

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Anybody who has ever "gotten it" by following some so-called method, has gotten it in spite of the method, not because of it.

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The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business--or almost anywhere else for that matter.

learning time motivational

As we have come to view teaching, it begins with an act of reason, continues with a process of reasoning, culminates in performances of imparting, eliciting, involving, or enticing, and is then thought about some more until the process can begin again

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Sometimes you think in order to act, sometimes you act in order t... by Lee S Shulman

Sometimes you think in order to act, sometimes you act in order to think.

learning order thinking

I was fortunate to get a scholarship when I went to Lehigh University and Princeton. They were both wonderful schools. Somebody was kind enough to spend their money to educate people that they would never get to know. That's what I think philanthropy is about.

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To know yet to think that one does not know is best; by Laozi

To know yet to think that one does not know is best;

learning motivation inspirational

You can learn much about life from a checker game: surrender one to take two; don't make two moves at one time; move up, not down; and when you reach the top, you may move as you like.

learning life moving

Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know.

things-in-life learning real

Confidence is simply that quiet assured feeling you have before y... by Leonard Binder

Confidence is simply that quiet assured feeling you have before you fall flat on your face.

learning reality fall

All good activities which encourage people to learn how to live with one another pleasantly and to develop a sense of humor improve living.

Leonard Carmichael

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