c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
Formal learning is like riding a bus: the driver decides where the bus is going; the passengers are along for the ride. Informal learning is like riding a bike: the rider chooses the destination, the speed, and the route.
— Jay Cross, Informal Learning: Rediscovering the Natural Pathways That Inspire Innovation and Performance
These dear souls came not to Sabbath school because it was popular to do so, nor did I teach them because it was reputable to be thus engaged. Every moment they spent in that school, they were liable to be taken up, and given thirty-nine lashes. They came because they wished to learn. Their minds had been starved by their cruel masters. They had been shut up in mental darkness. I taught them, because it was the delight of my soul to be doing something that looked like the bettering the condition of my race
— Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
There is no wisdom where there is no common sense: it cannot under those conditions find any expression.
— Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
The more you read, the better you get at it; the better you get at it, the more you like it;and the more you like it, the more you do it. And the more you read, the more you know;and the more you know, the smarter you grow.
— Jim Trelease
No one is born a sprinter. We all learn to push ourselves up from the floor and then balance before taking that first, wobbly step. It is an individual choice where to go from there.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes
It was a remarkable realization to Eby, that we are what we're taught. That was why the Morris women were what they were. It was because they knew no different.
— Sarah Addison Allen, Lost Lake
Why has he taken this job?... For the sake of the dogs? But the dogs are dead; and what do dogs know of honour and dishonour anyway? For himself then. For his idea of the world, a world in which men do not use shovels to beat corpses into a more convenient shape for processing.
— J.M. Coetzee, Disgrace
Learn how to learn before you learn
—  then learn to love before you love
He is not, he hopes, a sentimentalist. He tries not to sentimentalize the animals he kills, or to sentimentalize Bev Shaw. He avoids saying to her 'I don't know how you do it,' in order not to have to hear her say in return, 'Someone has to do it.
— J.M. Coetzee, Disgrace
None should say: 'I can trust' or 'I cannot trust' until he is a master of the option, of trusting or not trusting.
— Idries Shah, Reflections
To honor and celebrate; or to balance and rectify, drawing what you want or need into your life. A third mode is less personal, involving a desire to know more deeply, involving a desire to know more deeply, to grow in knowledge and understanding of the cards--breathing in the wisdom of the tarot for its own sake and to learn more about life and the human condition.
— Cait Johnson, Tarot for Every Day: Ideas and Activities for Bringing Tarot Wisdom into Your Daily Life
The people I've known who wanted to become writers, knowing what it meant, did become writers.
— John Gardner
It seems that the more we learn about our work, the easier and the more interesting it becomes to us. Tasks that used to be tedious now make sense, and we see how they're related to other elements of our jobs. Plus, they're easier to take care of now, so they don't bother us nearly as much when we need to do them. When we know more about our work and its ramifications, we can see the connections between what we do and the effects that those things have on other people.
— Tom Walsh
Those who will work hard will succeed,While those shop choose to slack at their work will be in need.
— Tristan riggs
Those who work hard will succeed,While those who slack at their work will be in need
— Tristan D.M.R.
I'm learning that sometimes there are no answers to our questions & sometimes we don't have to understand. Thats part of life and it is ok..
— Donal O'Callaghan
You have come a long way, and you do not know it. You have a long way to go, and you do know what that means.
— Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
if I had waited long enough I probably never would have written anything at all since there is a tendency when you really begin to learn something about a thing not to want to write about it but rather to keep on learning about it always and at no time, unless you are very egotistical, which, of course, accounts for many books, will you be able to say: now I know all about this and will write about it.
— Ernest Hemingway, Death in the Afternoon
Even though life is difficult as times, you must understand that these challenges are not here to beat you, defeat you, or squash you like a bug. Life is not against you (even though it feels that way sometimes). Every single experience is in your life to serve your process of growth and learning. Every situation you experience serves that purpose and is ultimately for your good.
— Kimberly Giles, Choosing Clarity: The Path to Fearlessness
If we have not changed, we have not learned
— John G. Miller, QBQ! The Question Behind the Question: Practicing Personal Accountability at Work and in Life
If every book was judged by its cover, very few would be read; education would be limited, and fewer movies would be made.
— Ellen J. Barrier, The Price We Must Pay for Our Father's Sins
ReThink Training: The best process of learning is on the job, just-in-time, "nibble-knowledge" to incrementally transform mindsets and skillsets irrevocably.
— Tony Dovale
Intellectual death is endemic in areas where people are not prepared to gain new information for development. Learning is the intervention!
— Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes
I learned what research was all about as a research student [with] Stoppani ... Max Perutz, and ... Fred Sanger... From them, I always received an unspoken message which in my imagination I translated as 'Do good experiments, and don’t worry about the rest.
— César Milstein
Learning is like the fuel that moves the machinery of your body towards it's destination of success. Shortage is possible, hence spare supply is necessary!
— Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes
Your vehicle of leadership is fueled by your willingness to learn. You can't lead if you can't learn!
— Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes
I'm just a girl trying to learn where to put my feet ... and where not to.
— J.Z. Colby, Selection
We can learn so much looking outside our core field of expertise.
— Sara Sheridan
Life is not out to get you, even though it feels that way sometimes. You are totally safe every step of the way (at least you have the option of seeing life that way if you want to). Life is about learning to walk the tightrope, find your balance, and trust God, life and yourself in the process. And you can do this, because there is really nothing to fear. When you get this concept it is going to change everything.
— Kimberly Giles, Choosing Clarity: The Path to Fearlessness
So it is with the places preparing to teach us. It's only when the heart begins to beat wildly and without pattern—when it begins to realize its boundlessness—that its newly adamant pulse bangs on the walls of its cage and is bruised by its enclosure... To feel the heart pound is only the beginning. Next is to feel the hurt—the tearing of the psyche—the prelude of entry into the place one has always feared. One fears that place because of being drawn to it, loving it, and wanting to be taught by it. Without the need to be taught, who would feel the psyche rip? Without the bruise, who would know where the walls are?
— Kay Larson, Where the Heart Beats: John Cage, Zen Buddhism, and the Inner Life of Artists
Rethink Success: Most people will never achieve past their existing levels, because they don't understand the importance of changing their Mindset
— Tony Dovale
Rethink change: Make change management irrelevant through Appreciative Leadership Innovation focused Expectations (ALIFE)
— Tony Dovale
What I have learned from the teachers with whom I have worked is that, just as there is no simple solution to the arms race, there is no simple answer to how to work with children in the classroom. It is a matter of being present as a whole person, with your own thoughts and feelings, and of accepting children as whole people, with their own thoughts and feelings. It's a matter of working very hard to find out what those thoughts and feelings are, as a starting point for developing a view of a world in which people are as much concerned about other people security as they are about their own
— Eleanor Duckworth, The Having of Wonderful Ideas: And Other Essays on Teaching and Learning
Try this: Identify a bottom-up improvement or innovation in your organization, and interview the person who championed it. Chances are you will find a hero story of some kind. Why do we have to be heroes to implement perfectly good ideas?
— Alan G. Robinson, The Idea-Driven Organization: Unlocking the Power in Bottom-Up Ideas
Few ever found enlightenment in haste, and nobody will ever discover it in gibberish
— Chris Murray, The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club
Rethink Your Success Mindset: At the end of your life, the only things that really matter... are matters of your heart.
— Tony Dovale
If life is a classroom then you’re still in the learning process part. In the learning process part, if you make a mistake you can just erase it and try again. In a classroom your mistakes deserve course correction and education, not punishment. Here the goal is to teach you how to behave better, not to fail or get rid of you. In a classroom, you can be a work in progress, and that’s okay. In a classroom, you are free to make mistakes in order to learn, because mistakes are part of learning. There are still consequences to every choice, but in a classroom you can’t fail, because your value isn’t on the line. If life is a classroom, you have the same value no matter how much you struggle, how many mistakes you make or how you perform. If life is a classroom you are safe.
— Kimberly Giles, Choosing Clarity: The Path to Fearlessness
Having a college degree does not make you educated. Always learning new things is what makes you educated.
— Dan Pearce, Single Dad Laughing
Though life has to be lived forward, it can only be understood backwards
— Adeline Yen Mah, Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter
Ladies and Gentlemen, I stand before you now because I never stopped dawdling like an eight-year-old on a spring morning on his way to school. Anything can make me stop and look and wonder, and sometimes learn. I am a very happy man. Thank you. - Dr. Hoenikker's Nobel Prize acceptance speech (in its entirety); chapter 5
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Cat's Cradle
It is possible to become world-class, enter the top 5% of performers in the world, in almost any subject within 6-12 months, or even 6-12 weeks.
— Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Chef: The Simple Path to Cooking Like a Pro, Learning Anything, and Living the Good Life
Our culture values independence and isolation far too much, it seems to me--we have a hard time making ourselves part of things, of making ourselves responsible to others, and trusting others to be there for us. Sure, there's pain involved if we get hurt, but there's far more pain in isolation. I love community because God gave us other people to live with, not to pull away from, and I learn so much from others that I can't imagine my life without the learning I've gained from getting to know other people.
— Tom Walsh
the more he learned, the more he realized that there is too much to learn in anyone’s lifetime.
— Shane Kuhn, The Intern's Handbook
That’s what games are, in the end. Teachers. Fun is just another word for learning.
— Raph Koster, Theory of Fun for Game Design
As a scientist I have come to learn that information isonly as valuable as its source.
— Dan Brown, Angels & Demons
If you don learn from others then others will learn from you.
— Hamzat haruna Ribah
Even if you have achieved everything, there is Perfection, still left to be achieved.
— Amit Kalantri
I wish that the last breath of your life is a sigh of relief.
— Saleem Sharma
Some of most valuable gifts come wrapped in the ugliest paper.
— Navonne Johns
The limbo of life is like a song, a melody that comes around occasionally but that sticks in your head and never goes away.
— Leigh Hershkovich, Shattered Illusions
She seemed to be occupied with of inner chamber of ideas and to have slight need for visible objects.
— Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge
Give a person a job you help them pay some bills, teach them how to find a career and you provide them with sustenance for life!
— Mark W. Boyer
Life is about learning new things and relearning old things.
— Liz
If the regular pay was important to him, the opportunity to learn was of even greater long-range significance.
— Mike Royko, Boss: Richard J. Daley of Chicago
I've come to learn, and to establish mine in that same place i come from. Staying in my school place makes me always a student.
— sol michael
One's past can't be erased, it can only be learned from, the child taught her.
— H. L. Balcomb
Anything I run across can light up the circuitry of my brain, and set me on an adventure. To research strains of yeast; hiccup fetishists; the proper use of inverse, obverse, converse and reverse; the ratio of main narrative to tangent, of forward action to aside. What else do we do but quest, pursue meaning in the information wash? Where does that storm sewer opening from the river into the city’s underneath go to, anyhow? I grab a headlamp and head in. It’s long and low and dark and stinks and extends for miles. Underneath the city is another city. The one above begins to disappear. That’s what we’re after, isn’t it? To disappear? To venture into darkness, to let what we know or think we know recede for an hour, a day, a novel’s length, and see what meaning can be made of what remains?
— Ander Monson
The most overpowering will is the will to not work.
— Saleem Sharma
What you study is more important than how you study. Students are subordinate to materials, much like novice cooks are subordinate to recipes. If you select the wrong material, the wrong textbook, the wrong group of words, it doesn't matter how much (or how well) you study. It doesn't matter how good your teacher is. One must find the highest-frequency material. Material beats method.
— Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Chef: The Simple Path to Cooking Like a Pro, Learning Anything, and Living the Good Life
As we grow up, nothing changes more than the definition of loss.
— Saleem Sharma
As you stumble and learn, stumble and learn again, resolve to talk to yourself as if you were your best friend. So no "What a #?%$@ idiot!" when your BFF smashes an egg on the floor, m'kay? Be cool, like the Fonz.
— Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Chef: The Simple Path to Cooking Like a Pro, Learning Anything, and Living the Good Life
This time around I was so lonely that I was forced to be face to face with myself. Realizing at the end of the day I only have me and I didn't seem to like my own company. I decided to I had to make myself into someone I can live with.
— kandi dougherty
Failure is an instruction manual written in scar tissue.
— Chuck Wendig
Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect
—  just be an excellent example of being human.
They had learned nothing and forgotten nothing.
— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord
Many things which are called 'secrets' are only things withheld from people until they can understand or effectively experience them.
— Idries Shah
To try and fail is at least to learn
—  to fail to try is to suffer the inestimable loss of what might have been.
The wise will hide your follies and help you learn, but the wicked ones will gossip about it with scoundrels.
— Aniruddha Sastikar
It is in our genes to understand the universe if we can, to keep trying even if we cannot, and to be enchanted by the act of learning all the way.
— Lewis Thomas
Test everything that can be tested. As soon as you think you know something, that's when you stop questioning it. Understanding kills curiosity. Understanding kills progress.
— Josh Hanagarne, The World's Strongest Librarian: A Memoir of Tourette's, Faith, Strength, and the Power of Family
At each small success we should not become our own heroes in our minds
— Dr. V. V. Rao
A popular myth is that learning is largely a matter of motivation. Increasingly, the key to effective learning in the information era is how you think, not how you feel.
— Kathryn Alesandrini, Survive Information Overload: The 7 Best Ways to Manage Your Workload by Seeing the Big Picture
The irony of life: Realizing a lifetime is barely long enough to figure out how it should have been lived.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes
The best teaching is often both an intellectual creation and a performing art.
— Ken Bain, What the Best College Teachers Do
Our greatest mistakes, if we look at them, and digest them, and interact with them, and learn from them… they can be the greatest moments of our lives.
— Dan Pearce, Single Dad Laughing
It is my intent to beget a good understanding between the chymists and the mechanical philosophers who have hitherto been too little acquainted with one another's learning.
— Robert Boyle, The Sceptical Chymist
Wearing all that weight of learning like a flower.
— Alfred Tennyson
Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.
— Louisa May Alcott
Although the terms teaching and learning are typically paired, those of us who teach know that students don't always learn. When I complained about this early in my teaching career, a colleagues chided me: "Saying 'I thaught the students something, they just didn't learn it' is akin to saying 'I sold them the car, they just didn't but it'".
— Elizabeth F. Barkley, Student Engagement Techniques: A Handbook for College Faculty
You can find humor in everything. everything.
— Krishna Sagar
This too shall pass.
— Krishna Sagar, Summit Your Everest: Your Coach for Obstacle & Failure Management
When it comes to education all obstacles must be removed. This must become a priority for humanity.
— Alex Zar
In short, we much struggle with the meaning of learning within our discipline and how best to cultivate and recognize it. For that task, we don't need routine experts who know all the right procedures but adaptive ones who can apply fundamental principles to all the situations and students they are likely to encounter, recognizing when invention is both possible and necessary and that there is no single 'best way' to teach.
— Ken Bain, What the Best College Teachers Do
To benefit from what the best teachers do, however, we must embrace a different model, one in which teaching occurs only when learning takes place. Most fundamentally, teaching in this conception is creating those conditions in which most--if not all--of our students will realize their potential to learn. That sounds like hard work, and it is a little scary because we don't have complete control over who we are, but it is highly rewarding and obtainable.
— Ken Bain, What the Best College Teachers Do
Having fun while learning feels like playing a game.
— N.N. Porchezhiyan
There is no limit as to what we can learn. Through study, we can learn from the past. Experience can empower us to handle the present. For those who desire to learn of the future, dreams hold a subtle key.Not all things we see, as we sleep, should be cast aside as non-consequential rubbish. It is true that the mind can play many tricks…but it can also send you messages meant to be deciphered at a later date.
— Jaime Buckley, The Truth About Lies
We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.
— Montesquieu
Looking back now, I would say that this was one of the first valuable lessons I learned, and one that would be useful in my future line of work. Sometimes things go wrong. It is inevitable. But it is a mistake to waste time and energy worrying about events that you cannot influence. Once they have happened, let them go.
— Anthony Horowitz, Russian Roulette: The Story of an Assassin
We lose our ability to live fully if we neglect or ignore our responsibility to the other people who share this planet with us. We simply cannot reach our full potential without the insights and observations that other people--our teachers--have to give us. We cannot feel whole until we are helping other people to reach for their potential and to grow as strong as they can grow. We do need down time, and we do need time to ourselves, but we very much need to acknowledge our ties to our fellow human beings and act as if those people meant more to us than our jobs or pets or cars do. They are much more important than anything material that we ever can get our hands on or strive for.
— Tom Walsh
I have lived my life backwards as compared to my peers. Everyone did incredibly stupid things as teenagers and pre-teens. I didn't. I was the one telling everybody that they were incredibly stupid. Now that they are all past that stage and we are all much older— I am the one doing incredibly stupid things. I have figured that I've earned that right, by now! You have to earn the right to be stupid.
— C. JoyBell C.
The path to wisdom is paved with humility.
— Tim Fargo
We need people who push boundaries rather than retreat inside them.
— Tim Fargo
You'll come to learn a great deal if you study the Insignificant in depth
— Odysseus Elytis
If we spark a student's passion, we unleash a powerful force upon the world.
— Tim Fargo
After one has read everything and thought everything, one still have everything to learn.
— Marty Rubin
It was amusing to me to see how the detective's overbearing manner had changed suddenly to that of a child asking questions of its teacher.
— Arthur Conan Doyle, The Return of Sherlock Holmes
The new naval treaty permits the United States to spend a billion dollars on warships—a sum greater than has been accumulated by all our endowed institutions of learning in their entire history. Unintelligence could go no further! ... [In Great Britain, the situation is similar.] ... Until the figures are reversed, ... nations deceive themselves as to what they care about most.
— Abraham Flexner, Universities: American, English, German
I had no systematic way of learning but proceeded like a quilt maker, a patch of knowledge here a patch there but lovingly knitted. I would hungrily devour the intellectual scraps and leftovers of the learned.
— Ishmael Reed, Mumbo Jumbo
ARTIFICIALLY-INDUCED INTELLIGENCE DETERIORATES AT A RATE OF TIME DIRECTLY PROPORTIONAL TO THE QUANTITY OF THE INCREASE.
— Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
Knowing higher truths ensure that we have a larger perspective where all other things fall in place or start making sense.
— Thomas Vazhakunnathu, God Does Not Play Dice
Expectation levels set can be directly correlated to the quality of the training provided.
— Mark W. Boyer
You can learn more in half an hour's direct contact with a source of knowledge (no matter the apparent reason for the contact or the subject of the transaction) than you can in years of formal effort.
— Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
If you are not learning, you are not living.
— Kevin James Breaux
Today I am so grateful that God knows my heart.Others may misunderstand my good intentions, judge my words or deeds, find fault,or blame what they truly do not understand.But God knows my heart. He knows I am learning, trying, endeavoring,to be all He created me to be.
— Lori Nawyn
The text-book is rare that stimulates its reader to ask, Why is this so? Or, How does this connect with what has been read elsewhere?
— J. Norman Collie
i don't think college is something you should tough out.
— Kevin Roose, The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest University
It is a Sufi contention that truth is not discovered or maintained by the mere repetition of teachings. It can only be kept understood by the perpetual experience of it. And it is in the experience of truth that the Sufis have always reposed their trust. Sufism is therefore not 'Do as I say and not as I do', or even 'Do as I do', but 'Experience it and you will know'.
— Idries Shah, A Perfumed Scorpion
For he came to perceive that since people were his study, his teachers, the objects through which he could satisfy his persistent wonder about life itself, his own being among others, wherever he lived for the moment, there was his home.
— Pearl S. Buck, The Eternal Wonder
The country inspector's face had shown his intense amazement at the rapid and masterful progress of Holmes' investigation. At first he had shown some disposition to assert his own position, but now he was overcome with admiration, and ready to follow without question wherever Holmes lead.
— Arthur Conan Doyle, The Return of Sherlock Holmes
A wise person alway learn from every thing at any given morment.
— Hamzat haruna Ribah
I received comments on how extraordinary it was that I could keep up speaking for exactly 45 minutes. Indeed, in an age of soundbites lasting some seconds and of quick quotes in the news, all those minutes do seem like an eternity, easy to get lost in. Yet, wait a moment. Television is not the only place where speeches are given. Some hundred thousand teachers teach every day. They all speak 45 minutes, more times a day. They have been doing this for years. Every teacher knows exactly when the time will be over and that by then his speech will need to come to a natural end. It is this tension that determines the success of a lesson. It is a sign of the times that we forget these daily achievements in education. A million students daily attend several ‘live’ lectures and this in secondary education alone. These are high ratings!
— Robbert Dijkgraaf
Simply put, the best teachers believe that learning involves both personal and intellectual development and that neither the ability to think nor the qualities of being a mature human are immutable. People can change, and those changes--not just the accumulation of information--represent true learning.
— Ken Bain, What the Best College Teachers Do
Great experiences are built on a foundation of bad experiences.
— Tim Fargo
Life without death simply isn't life, but death
— Juliet Daniel
Those who study a wide variety of things realize that they don't know everything whereas specialists think they do.
— V. R. Roadifer
The problem with all students, he said, is that they inevitably stop somewhere. They hear an idea and they hold on to it until it becomes dead; they want to flatter themselves that they know the truth. But true Zen never stops, never congeals into such truths. That is why everyone must constantly be pushed to the abyss, starting over and feeling their utter worthlessness as a student. Without suffering and doubts, the mind will come to rest on clichés and stay there, until the spirit dies as well. Not even enlightenment is enough. You must continually start over and challenge yourself.
— Robert Greene, Mastery
Forgive, I hope you won't be upset, but when I was a boy I used to look up and see you behind your desk, so near but far away, and, how can I say this, I used to think that you were Mrs. God, and that the library was a whole world, and that no matter what part of the world or what people or thing I wanted to see and read, you'd find and give it to me.
— Ray Bradbury, Quicker Than the Eye
Yes, we know you are a graduate with PhD. But when was the last time you chase after a book shop to buy and read a book at your own volition to obtain an information for your self-development? Knowledge doesn't chase people; people chase knowledge and information.
— Israelmore Ayivor
We don't live through life only by our own experiences, we live through life with other people's experience as a reference too.
— Nike Thaddeus
Books must follow sciences, and not sciences b
— Francis Bacon
No policeman had ever arrested anyone for over-reading; but ignorance prosecutes those who under-read. You begin to stop growing on the day you stop learning, so why not keep learning and keep growing!
— Israelmore Ayivor
It is now established by verifiable evidence that religion stultifies the brain and is the great obstacle in the path of intellectual progress.The more religious a person is, the more he is steeped in ignorance and superstition, the less is his sense of moral responsibility. The more intelligent a person, the less religious he is. There is an old saying that 'where there are three scientists, there are two atheists.'The countries whose governments are dominated by religion and religious institutions are the most backward. By the same token, the countries whose people are the most enlightened, and whose governments are based upon the principle of secularism—the separation of church and state—are the most progressive.And let me tell you: When man is intellectually free, the progress he will make is beyond calculation.
— Joseph Lewis, An Atheist Manifesto
Every television program must be a complete package in itself. No previous knowledge is to be required. There must not be even a hint that learning is hierarchical, that it is an edifice constructed on a foundation. The learner must be allowed to enter at any point without prejudice. This is why you shall never hear or see a television program begin with the caution that if the viewer has not seen the previous programs, this one will be meaningless. Television is a nongraded curriculum and excludes no viewer for any reason, at any time. In other words, in doing away with the idea of sequence and continuity in education, television undermines the idea that sequence and continuity have anything to do with thought itself.
— Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
Maturity/experience: the beguiling texture of stones subjected to years of furious seas.
— Alain de Botton
A good teacher does something more than teaching
—  he makes you start learning.
Genuine wisdom has two major conditions: you cannot teach it, and you cannot make someone learn it.
— Raheel Farooq
What does it matter?" I shrugged. "It's interesting and anything thats interesting is worth learning.
— Amanda Lance
Accountability makes no sense when it undermines the larger goals of education.
— Diane Ravitch, The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education
We really learn only from those books that we cannot judge. The author of a book that we were able to judge would have to learn from us.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Learning must be like a house with its door always wide open
—  let everything enters the house!
[Cornell University will be] an asylum for Science—where truth shall be sought for truth's sake, not stretched or cut exactly to fit Revealed Religion.
— Andrew Dickson White
Importance of the random: keep brushing up against people, books, experiences we don't yet know what to do with.
— Alain de Botton
A good teacher does not teach all that he knows. He teaches all that the learners need to know at the time, and all that the learners can accountably learn in the time given.
— Jane Vella, Taking Learning to Task: Creative Strategies for Teaching Adults
Those who want to learn more than bread and butter shall be able to make this world a better place ...
— Dinesh Kumar, Destiny Re scripted
Training, Books, Learning is all expensive. Being stupid though is still much more expensive.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour, Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics
If we're going to be smart, we can't be stupid…!
— James A. Murphy, The Waves of Life Quotes and Daily Meditations
Too many scholars think of research as purely a cerebral pursuit. If we do nothing with the knowledge we gain, then we have wasted our study. Books can store information better than we can--what we we do that books cannot is interpret. So if one is not going to draw conclusions, then one might as well just leave the information in the texts.
— Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings
I was impressed for the ten thousandth time by the fact that literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity. Books are unconvertible assets, to be passed on only to those who possess them already.
— Anthony Powell, The Valley of Bones
The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of what makes good writing and it will enlarge your vocabulary.
— J.K. Rowling
How can a person have a sense of something if he does not have the germ of it within himself. What I am to understand must develop organically within me--and what I seem to learn is only nourishment--stimulation of the organism.
— Novalis
I believe the main purpose of life is to accept with gratitude what you've been blessed with so that you may use those gifts to mold yourself into the best person you can possibly be. Learning to discern things of true value from those of little or no worth is part of the process.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway
For thousands of years humans were oppressed— as some of us still are— by the notion that the universe is a marionette whose strings are pulled by a god or gods, unseen and inscrutable. Then, 2,500 years ago, there was a glorious awakening in Ionia: on Samos and the other nearby Greek colonies that grew up among the islands and inlets of the busy eastern Aegean Sea. Suddenly there were people who believed that everything was made of atoms; that human beings and other animals had sprung from simpler forms; that diseases were not caused by demons or the gods; that the Earth was only a planet going around the Sun. And that the stars were very far away.
— Carl Sagan, Cosmos
The bridge between the words glamour and grammar is magic. According to the OED, glamour evolved through an ancient association between learning and enchantment.
— Roy Peter Clark, The Glamour of Grammar: A Guide to the Magic and Mystery of Practical English
This institution will be based on the illimitable freedom of the human mind. For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it.
— Thomas Jefferson
I was more than my limitations
—  I was learning
You take a step, then another. That’s the journey. But to take a step with your eyes open is not a journey at all, it’s a remaking of your own mind.
— Orson Scott Card
...even misplaced faith can help us gain knowledge. We try to be smart about where we put our faith and we adjust as we learn more.
— Brandon Mull, Chasing the Prophecy
We may have to struggle to achieve our goals, but our struggles may yield as much growth as our learning. The strengths we develop in overcoming challenges will be with us in the eternities to come.
— Dallin H. Oaks
Europe had fallen back into the barbarity of the first ages. People from this part of world, so enlightened today, lived a few centuries ago in a state worse than ignorance. Some sort of learned jargon much more despicable than ignorance had usurped the name of knowledge and set up an almost invincible obstacle in the way of its return. A revolution was necessary to bring men back to common sense, and it finally came from a quarter where one would least expect it. It was the stupid Muslim, the eternal blight on learning, who brought about its rebirth among us.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Sciences and Arts (1st Discourse) and Polemics
I often learn more from one person's highly idiosyncratic experiences than I do from sources that detail universal practices or cite up-to-date studies.
— Gretchen Rubin, The Happiness Project: Or Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun
Listen to learn. Learn to earn!
— Rob Liano
The moment a person feels he has nothing left to learn is the moment life prepares to hit him hard enough to correct such ignorance.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway
Those who make compassion an essential part of their lives find the joy of life. Kindness deepens the spirit and produces rewards that cannot be completely explained in words. It is an experience more powerful than words. To become acquainted with kindness one must be prepared to learn new things and feel new feelings. Kindness is more than a philosophy of the mind. It is a philosophy of the spirit.
— Robert J. Furey
You'll learn. It takes time to kill the flesh, honey. It's kind of like those candles your father used to put on Mitchell's cake--the ones that relight when you think they're out. You've got to keep huffing and puffing and maybe even use the help of water before it's over, but eventually it's over, and that candle can't be lit even if you try -Mrs. Flannery
— Heather  Randall, When Chicks Hatch
Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.
— Kenneth E. Boulding
Ignorance must be prosecuted when arrested. The only way for its arrest is by information and the only way for prosecution is through reading and learning of new things.
— Israelmore Ayivor
You go to a great school not so much for knowledge as for arts and habits; for the habit of attention, for the art of expression, for the art of assuming, at a moment’s notice, a new intellectual position, for the art of entering quickly into another person’s thoughts, for the habit of submitting to censure and refutation, for the art of indicating assent or dissent in graduated terms… And above all, you go to a great school for self-knowledge.
— William Cory
Taking the alphabet first and learning one letter a year for twenty-six years he will be able to read and write as early in life as he ought to. If we were more careful not to teach our children to read in their childhood we should not be so anxious about the effects of pernicious literature upon their adolescent morals.
— John Kendrick Bangs, The Autobiography of Methuselah
What you learn is often determined by what you need to know. If you think you're weak, you will learn that you are strong. If you think you are indestructible, you will learn that you are fragile. In the end though, you will learn that you are human. You are no more and no less than all those who are learning their lessons as you learn yours.
— John Bingham
I find endless sustenance in the creative. I freely drink from the fountain of knowledge. I'm forever the student - considered the teacher.
— Truth Devour, Wantin
Why did you measure the days and nights? To know. Sitting high above the city, Father Time realized that knowing something and understanding it were not the same thing.
— Mitch Albom, The Time Keeper
If I had my way no one should be taught to read until after he had passed his hundredth year. In that way, and in that way only can we protect our youth from the dreadful influence of such novels as 'Three Cycles, Not To Mention The Rug,' which dreadful book I have found within the past month in the hands of at least twenty children in the neighborhood, not one of whom was past sixty.
— John Kendrick Bangs, The Autobiography of Methuselah
You teach me, I forget. You show me, I remember. You involve me, I understand.
— Edward O. Wilson
I am, for the most part, who I am because my good mother was who she was.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway
The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Often, love is a tangled web of lies that only a broken heart would weave. Seldom is dishonesty the whole person, rather it's the pain.
— Shannon L. Alder
We grow up opposing our parents only to become like them enough to oppose our children who behave as we once did—a reminder of how dreadful we were toward those now vindicated grandparents. And you thought God had no sense of humor.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway
This is a story about survival.Letting go and learning to let in. Getting along and moving on. The truth about life.The things left unsaid...
— Nadège Richards, 5 Miles
The most essential prerequisite to understanding is to be able to admit when you don't understand something
— Richard Saul Wurman, Information Anxiety 2
Anybody or anything may stand between you and knowledge if you are unfit for it.
— Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
Desultory readers are seldom remarkable for the exactness of their learning.
— Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet
Life isn't a lazy cruise on some endless, calm, and temperate sea. Life is a raging ocean with swells and tidal waves that wreck and sink your boat. Life is a series of storms―overcast skies, fierce winds, and pelting rain. You were meant to be immersed in it all―first to float, then swim, and eventually to walk on water.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway
You can learn a lot from your lovers, but-for the most part-you get to keep your friends longer, and you learn more from them.
— John Irving, In One Person
What was the point, I had to wonder, of fighting so hard to learn to protect my life if I was destroying it in the process?
— Stacey Kade, The Rules
As you work to become a better student, remember that learning is far more important than the numbers on your transcript. I know it can be hard sometimes to remember what you're in school for. In some places, students go crazy over a tenth of a point - but this is an unhealthy and unsustainable way to manage your education. The real reason you're in school is to grow as a person and fulfill your potential.
— Stefanie Weisman, The Secrets of Top Students: Tips, Tools, and Techniques for Acing High School and College
What I learn today I shall know forever. Whether or not I remember that I know it is a different story.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway
First LEARN...thenremove the 'L
— Mohit Manke
It took me 42 years to write this song, and 5 minutes to sin
— Don Henley
When scientific conversations cease, then dogma rather than knowledge begins to rule the day.
— Jaak Panksepp, The Archaeology of Mind: Neuroevolutionary Origins of Human Emotions
People aspire, learn, and grow when they are ready to commit to the process.
— Lorii Myers, No Excuses, The Fit Mind-Fit Body Strategy Book
We define learning as the transformative process of taking in information that, when internalized and mixed with what we have experienced, changes what we know and builds on what we can do. It’s based on input, process, and reflection. It is what changes us.
— Marcia Conner, The New Social Learning: A Guide to Transforming Organizations Through Social Media
Remember when your curiosity inspired your investigative mind to explore and learn… you weren’t bogged down with resentment, cynicism, and emotional baggage… just think about how great it would be to return to that mindset of unencumbered learning and adventurous living… you are just one choice away from that life… choose to let go of the infertile past… go live your adventure!
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Training often gives people solutions to problems already solved. Collaboration addresses challenges no one has overcome before.
— Marcia Conner, The New Social Learning: A Guide to Transforming Organizations Through Social Media
Finding the reason to live doesn't put you on top, it's the hardships faced in process that get you there.
— Sachin Kumar Puli
One can give or withhold in a manner far more effective, sophisticated, useful, which is quite invisible to people who think that giving or withholding is done by external assessment. If you seek some mark of favour or 'promotion', know that you are not ready for it. Progress comes through capacity to learn, and is irresistible. Nobody can stand between you and knowledge if you are fit for it.
— Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
By bringing together people who share interests, no matter their location or time zone, social media has the potential to transform the workplace into an environment where learning is as natural as it is powerful.
— Marcia Conner, The New Social Learning: A Guide to Transforming Organizations Through Social Media
Don’t compromise your focus by comparing what you are trying to learn to what you already know. Focus in the moment, on what you are trying to learn now.
— Lorii Myers, No Excuses, The Fit Mind-Fit Body Strategy Book
Social tools leave a digital audit trail, documenting our learning journey—often an unfolding story—and leaving a path for others to follow.
— Marcia Conner, The New Social Learning: A Guide to Transforming Organizations Through Social Media
In what is known as the 70/20/10 learning concept, Robert Eichinger and Michael Lombardo, in collaboration with Morgan McCall of the Center for Creative Leadership, explain that 70 percent of learning and development takes place from real-life and on-the-job experiences, tasks, and problem solving; 20 percent of the time development comes from other people through informal or formal feedback, mentoring, or coaching; and 10 percent of learning and development comes from formal training.
— Marcia Conner, The New Social Learning: A Guide to Transforming Organizations Through Social Media
If you cannot teach others what you have learned, then you have learned nothing.
— Balan Gothandaraman
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
In a world of rapid change, we each need to garner as much useful information as possible, sort through it in a way that meets our unique circumstances, calibrate it with what we already know, and re-circulate it with others who share our goals.
— Marcia Conner, The New Social Learning: A Guide to Transforming Organizations Through Social Media
A mind with questions is a mind open to understanding.
— Colleen Houck, Tiger's Quest
I believe in knowing who you are but without limiting yourself to your own expectation of who you are.
— Charlotte Eriksson, Empty Roads & Broken Bottles; in search for The Great Perhaps
I have a tendency to want to understand everything people say and everything I hear, both at work and outside, even at a distance, even if it’s one of the innumerable languages I don’t know, even if it’s in an indistinguishable murmur or imperceptible whisper, even if it would be better that I didn’t understand and what’s said is not intended for my ears or is said precisely so I won’t understand it.
— Javier Marías, A Heart So White
Most of all, differences of opinion are opportunities for learning.
— Terry Tempest Williams, When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice
I've learned through experience that faith moves mountains, hope moves choices, and, more importantly, that love moves you a step closer to God.
— Maribel C. Pagan
Life is learning to take God's hand.....and hold on.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway
That which we are, we shall teach, not voluntarily, but involuntarily. Thoughts come into our minds by avenues which we never left open, and thoughts go out of our minds through avenues which we never voluntarily opened.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Over-Soul
Keep an open mind and know that you can always learn more.
— Lorii Myers, No Excuses, The Fit Mind-Fit Body Strategy Book
If I went back to college again, I'd concentrate on two areas learning to write and to speak before an audience. Nothing in life is more important than the ability to communicate effectively.
— Gerald R. Ford
Believe that your hard work, dedication and persistence will pay off; improve through continual learning and believe in your future.
— Lorii Myers, No Excuses, The Fit Mind-Fit Body Strategy Book
But one learns from books and reels only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those things.
— Frank Herbert, Children of Dune
One learns by doing, not by learning to do.
— Marty Rubin