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Quotes About Learning

Many men are stored full of unused knowledge. Like loaded guns that are never fired off, or military magazines in times of peace, they are stuffed with useless ammunition.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Education must promote peace, security and happiness.
~ Sai Baba
What creates happiness, peace, and balance is not becoming simply powerful, but knowledgeable.
~ Frederick Lenz
I am not discouraged because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
~ Thomas Alva Edison
Failure taught him that he could have made the right choice. I could have tried.
~ H. L. Balcomb
.it's allright not to know all the answers..
~ Boris Kovalík
The ancient Jewish people gave the world the vision of eternal peace, of universal disarmament, of abolishing the teaching and learning of war.
~ Menachem Begin
Ask the beasts and they will teach you the beauty of this earth.
~ Francis of Assisi
Learning from wolves to interact with pet dogs makes about as much sense as, 'I want to improve my parenting - let's see how the chimps do it!'
~ Ian Dunbar
Heartbreak is life educating us.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Fatty, a bearded collie-terrier mix, is the kindest, cuddliest dog. And Oliver, a white golden retriever, even looks like me! My dogs have taught me to be more loving, more nurturing, and happier.
~ Nicollette Sheridan
Most birds are geniuses. We had one that became a pet; he learned to talk, use tools and solve problems.
~ Jean Craighead George
Having a dog or cat will open your heart. Reading a book will open your mind. Having both a pet and a book... absolute heaven.
~ Mark Rubinstein
Maybe I was unpopular a bit because I was a teacher's pet. But even the teachers complained about me. They would say to my parents, 'For every one question any pupil asks, Walter asks 10.'
~ Walter O'Brien
The purpose of today's training is to defeat yesterday's understanding.
~ Miyamoto Musashi
Learning is more than the acquisition of the ability to think; it is the acquisition of many specialized abilities for thinking about a variety of things.
~ Lev S. Vygotsky
The only 'good' learning is that which is in advance of development.
~ Lev S. Vygotsky
The student is infinitely more important than the subject matter.
~ Nel Noddings
Jiu-Jitsu is like a philosophy. It helps me learn how to face life.
~ Helio Gracie
We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
In a philosophical dispute, he gains most who is defeated, since he learns most.
~ Epicurus
The Study of philosophy is not that we may know what men have thought, but what the truth of things is.
~ Thomas Aquinas
Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy
~ Alexandre Dumas
Knowledge helps only when it descends into habits.
~ Jerome Bruner