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Quotes About Learning

Being steeped in the process of learning and exploring keeps me from becoming too nervous. Partly it's about not getting bored.
~ Renee Fleming
Whatever authority I may have rests solely on knowing how little I know.
~ Socrates
I really, truly believe in learning from other people's mistakes.
~ Mila Kunis
In transforming backward agricultural China into an advanced industrialized country, we are confronted with arduous tasks and our experience is far from adequate. So we must be good at learning.
~ Mao Zedong
Concerning culture as a process, one would say that it means learning a great many things and then forgetting them; and the forgetting is as necessary as the learning.
~ Albert J. Nock
Diligent as one must be in learning, one must be as diligent in forgetting; otherwise the process is one of pedantry, not culture.
~ Albert J. Nock
Learning has always been made much of, but forgetting has always been deprecated; therefore pedantry has pretty well established itself throughout the modern world at the expense of culture.
~ Albert J. Nock
I do remember actually learning chords to Beatles songs. I thought they were great songwriters.
~ Mick Taylor
Learning preserves the errors of the past as well as its wisdom.
~ Alfred North Whitehead
I think kids slowly begin to realize that what they're learning relates to other things they know. Then learning starts to get more and more exciting
~ Norton Juster
Thailand's economic development was driven by educational expansion. That has been a very dramatic factor, and South Asia had been pretty miserable in not learning from that experience.
~ Amartya Sen
I think we can question whether degrees are antediluvian. Online learning has flexibility. Why not master courses in energy, writing, communications, and engineering and get a credential?
~ Anant Agarwal
I was 17 and just learning what high fidelity was, what good sound was, and learning the mechanics of tape machines. It was a real education, going right from the consumer end to the record factory.
~ Alan Parsons
Learning is nothing without cultivated manners, but when the two are combined in a woman, you have one of the most exquisite products of civilization.
~ Andre Maurois
Bill Dickey is learning me his experience.
~ Yogi Berra
All I have learned, I learned from books.
~ Abraham Lincoln
The essence of training is to allow error without consequence.
~ Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
We are not born with a need for knowledge, but a hunger for it. Eve bit the apple and it has been gluttony ever since.
~ Anthony Marais, Delusionism
.....the research on the brain does not validate that we are singularly processing input or learning with a single sensory input.
~ Eric Jensen
To become effortless takes a lot of effort. It's good to compare it to learning an instrument or learning a sport.
~ Tenzin Palmo
A lesson that is never learned can never be too often taught.
~ Seneca the Younger
Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
~ Jonathan Swift
Once Europe existed in a Dark Age and Islam carried the torch of learning. Now we Muslims live in a Dark age.
~ Mahmud Tarzi
Given a rich environment, learning becomes like the air—it's in and around us.
~ Sandra Dodd