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Quotes About Learning

Learning a new skill can change hundreds of millions of cortical connections.
~ Michael Merzenich
Profound changes to how children access vast information is yielding new forms of peer-to-peer and individual-guided learning.
~ Sugata Mitra
I'm really enjoying learning new ideas because eventually I want to become a manager myself so I'm gathering all this information from managers now and previously.
~ John Terry
The real hallmark of learning is transferring what you've learned into new contexts.
~ Eric Mazur
We learn as much from sorrow as from joy, as much from illness as from health, from handicap as from advantage and indeed perhaps more.
~ Pearl S. Buck
I think friendship is learning from Leeeuk hyung in Super Junior. Oh, I know, friendship is Super Junior.
~ Yesung
We all learn by experience, and your lesson this time is that you should never lose sight of the alternative. Sherlock Holmes speaking with Dr. Watson.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
My sister bought me a set at a candy store and taught me the moves.
~ Bobby Fischer
A student can win twelve letters at a university without learning how to write one.
~ Robert M. Hutchins
As long as you're learning you're not old.
~ Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
The art of teaching is tolerance. Humbleness is the art of learning.
~ B.K.S. Iyengar
Deep learning doesn't shine.
~ Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Everybody has fallen down or been disappointed in love. Where you truly shine is when you get back up. Use it as a learning experience and believe in all of the possibilities.
~ Sherry Argov
Love of learning is a pleasant and universal bond since it deals with what one is and not what one has.
~ Freya Stark
Whether one has natural talent or not, any learning period requires the willingness to suffer uncertainty and embarrassment.
~ Gail Sheehy
The pupil is ... 'schooled' to confuse teaching with learning, grade advancement with education, a diploma with competence, and fluency with the ability to say something new.
~ Ivan Illich
I also talk a lot in Deeper Reading about the importance that confusion plays. When my students come to me, they think confusion is bad. They are wrong. Confusion is the place where learning occurs.
~ Kelly Gallagher
One is not really a photographer until preoccupation with learning has been outgrown and the camera in his hands is an extension of himself. This is where creativity begins.
~ Carl Mydans
Not everyone has equal abilities, but everyone should have equal opportunity for education.
~ John F. Kennedy
Fun from games arises out of mastery. It arises out of comprehension. It is the act of solving puzzles that makes games fun. In other words, with games, learning is the drug.
~ Raph Koster
The day that you stop learning is the day that you start decreasing your rewards and start suffering from frustration and lower levels of satisfaction.
~ Brian Tracy
Great stories teach you something. That's one reason I haven't slipped into some sort of retirement: I always feel like I'm learning something new.
~ Clint Eastwood
My joy in learning is partly that it enables me to teach.
~ Seneca the Younger
A scientist is never certain. ... We absolutely must leave room for doubt or there is no progress and there is no learning.
~ Richard P. Feynman