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Quotations by Subject: Learning
(Related Subjects: Education, Knowledge, Teaching)
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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
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
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)


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