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Quotes About Learning

Education is something which should be apart from the necessities of earning a living, not a tool therefor.
~ John D. MacDonald
what we don't know and can't do far exceeds what we do know and can do. A little humility, then, is hardly rocket science. It is common sense.
~ John Dickson
so meer Poets and meer Musicians, are as sottish as meer Drunkards are, who live in a continuall mist without seeing, or judgeing any thing clearly. A man should be learn'd in severall Sciences, and should have a rea?sonable Philosophicall, and ni some measure a Mathematicall head; to be a compleat and excellent Poet
~ John Dryden
May the student in you become the teacher for another
~ John Edward
Teach a man a rule and you help him solve a problem; teach a man to walk with God and you help him solve the rest of his life. Truth
~ John Eldredge
Sorrow is not a stranger to any of us, though only a few have learned that is is not our enemy either.
~ John Eldredge
The greater our knowledge increases the greater our ignorance unfolds.
~ John F. Kennedy
Our progress as a nation can be not swifter than our progress in education.
~ John F. Kennedy
In a time of turbulence and change, it is more true than ever that knowledge is power.
~ John F. Kennedy
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
~ John F. Kennedy
A student of Christology needs to be constantly reminded that while there is progress in doctrine, there is no increase in scriptural revelation.
~ Unknown
A child miseducated is a child lost.
~ John Fitzgerald Kennedy
People who teach you cram old ideas, old views, old ways, into you. Like covering plants with layer after layer of old earth; it's no wonder the poor things so rarely come up fresh and green.
~ John Fowles
How I hate ignorance! Caliban's ignorance, my ignorance, the world's ignorance! Oh, I could learn and learn and learn and learn. I could cry, I want to learn so much.
~ John Fowles
People who teach you cram old ideas, old views, old ways, into you. Like covering plants with layer after layer of old earth; it's no wonder the poor things so rarely come up fresh and green.
~ John Fowles
He said, one has to learn that painting well - in the academic and technical sense - comes right at the bottom of the list. I mean, you've got that ability. So have thousands.
~ John Fowles
Greece is like a mirror. It makes you suffer. Then you learn.
~ John Fowles
No es el poco saber lo que genera necesariamente la ignorancia: saber demasiado, o querer saber demasiado, puede producir el mismo resultado.
~ John Fowles
We attend too many seminars. We take too many classes. We buy too many books. We play too many audios in our cars. It's all wasted if we're unclear on what learning really is: Learning is not attending, listening, or reading. Learning is really about translating knowing what to do into doing what we know. It's about changing. If we have not changed we have not learned.
~ John G. Miller
Remember: The answers are in the questions.
~ John G. Miller
Accountable people look for solutions, not scapegoats. They blame no one—not even themselves. If a "self-critique" is warranted, they ask QBQs like "What could I have done differently?" and "How can I learn from this experience?
~ John G. Miller
When you think, I really know someone who needs to hear this, stop and think... We tend to teach each others what we need to hear ourselves.
~ John G. Miller
When the student is ready the teacher appears. When the question is asked then the answer is heard. When we are truly ready to receive then what we need will become available.
~ John Gray
Learning from mistakes helps prevent the repetition of negative patterns.
~ John Gray