Quotes About Learning

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Maybe it's our duty to be shaped a hundred times by the same stories. We think we're telling them but really they're keeping us alive

Please describe how you became a writer. Possibly I began writing as a refuge from our insulting first grade textbook. Come, Jane, come. Look, Dick, look. Were there ever duller people in the world? You had to tell them to look at things? Whey weren't they looking to begin with?

everyone everywhere suddenly was to 'distance learn,' that awkward, heartless neologism

As a child, you sat in a circle around your teacher and looked at her face as she read a story, and you felt the magic of human narrative in a collective context.

If you are not learning while you're earning, you are cheating yourself out of the better portion of your compensation.

Every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent success.

Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.

failure always is a blessing when it forces one to acquire knowledge or to build habits that lead to the achievement of one's major purpose in life.

Knowledge has no value except that which can be gained from its application towards some worthy end.

No man is your enemy, no man is your friend, every man is your teacher.

Then accumulated knowledge is not wisdom? A Great heavens, no! If knowledge were wisdom, the achievements of science would not have been converted into implements of destruction.

The majority of people who acquire wisdom do so after they have passed the age of forty. Prior to that time the majority of people are too busy gathering knowledge and organizing it into plans to spend any effort seeking wisdom.

ASK any wise man what he most desires and he will, more than likely, say more wisdom.

HUMILITY: Imitate Jesus and Socrates.

The person who stops studying merely because he has finished school is forever hopelessly doomed to mediocrity, no matter what may be his calling. The way of success is the way of continuous pursuit of knowledge.

greatest public school system in the world. We have invested fabulous sums for fine buildings, we have provided convenient transportation for children living in the rural districts, so they may attend the best schools, but there is one astounding weakness to this marvelous system — it is free! One of the strange things about human beings is that they value only that which has a price.

Children are sent to school to make credits and to learn how to memorize, not to learn what they want of life.

IT PAYS TO KNOW HOW TO PURCHASE KNOWLEDGE

Knowledge has no value except that which can be gained from its application toward some worthy end.

Power grows out of ORGANIZED KNOWLEDGE, but, mind you, it "grows out of it" through application and use!

A Positive Mental Attitude 2. Definiteness of purpose 3. Going the extra mile 4. Accurate thinking 5. Self-discipline 6. The master mind 7. Applied faith 8. A pleasing personality 9. Personal initiative 10. Enthusiasm 11. Controlled attention 12. Teamwork 13. Learning from defeat 14. Creative vision

Failure so often hates the very sight of success. Speaking with successful men, I have noticed they speak in complimentary terms of other men who are succeeding. Their attitude is not one of envy, but of willingness to learn from others.

This "missing link" in all systems of education may be found in the failure of educational institutions to teach their students how to organize and use knowledge after they acquire it.