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Quotes About Learning

Imagination is a poor substitute for experience.
~ Havelock Ellis
Curiosity is the main energy.
~ Robert Rauschenberg
Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
~ e. e. cummings
An educational foundation is only part of the equation. In order for creativity to flourish and imagination to take hold, we also need to expose our children to the arts from a very young age.
~ Michelle Obama
Everyone must go through all experiences but they need not go through them all in reality -they can do it vicariously, by imagination.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
The term "intellect" includes all those powers by which we acquire, retain, and extend our knowledge; as perception, memory, imagination, judgment, and the like.
~ William Fleming
Imagination comes in after we have experience.
~ William Morris Hunt
I think reading is important for a variety of things. I mean, first of all, it's a way to get information and find out what's going on in the world. But also, it helps your imagination.
~ Breckin Meyer
The imagination is a species of knowledge, knowledge that can take the form of discovery.
~ Cynthia Ozick
Collecting facts is important. Knowledge is important. But if you don't have an imagination to use the knowledge, civilization is nowhere.
~ Ray Bradbury
What better way to expand your imagination than to read!
~ Laura Marano
Study detains the mind by the perpetual occurrence of something new, which may gratefully strike the imagination.
~ Isaac Watts
Curiosity, fed by feats of imagination, can only grow
~ Julie Czerneda
Take imagination breaks... Relaxed attention is one of the most important states of mind for creativity, and sometimes it has to be learned.
~ Nita Leland
I'm a better coach now than when I joined Celtic. The longer you stay in any job, the better you become. If you lose your drive, your enthusiasm, your imagination, that experience is no good.
~ Gordon Strachan
Bad teaching is teaching which presents an endless procession of meaningless signs, words and rules, and fails to arouse the imagination.
~ W. W. Sawyer
Where my reason, imagination or interest were not engaged, I would not or I could not learn.
~ Winston Churchill
Because they have so little, children must rely on imagination rather than experience.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Imagination is built upon knowledge.
~ Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
Knowledge dilutes imagination.
~ R.A.Delmonico
One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.
~ Joseph Joubert
Little children, from the moment in which they are weaned, are making their way toward independence.
~ Maria Montessori
No nation is permitted to live in ignorance with impunity
~ Thomas Jefferson
Encourage independence in your children by regularly losing them in the supermarket.
~ Erma Bombeck