Thursday 11 April 2019

Learning - Quotes

No man is so learned but he may be taught; neither is any one so illiterate but he may teach. - William Scott Downey

No one is exempt from the rule that learning occurs through recognition of error. - Alexander Lowen

No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it. - Peter F. Drucker

Of all evil things, the least quantity is to be borne, but of learning and knowledge, the more a man hath, the better he can bear it. - Bion

One destitute of wealth is not destitute, he is indeed rich, but the man devoid of learning is destitute in every way. - Chanakya

Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient. - Eugene S. Wilson

People learn more on their own rather than being force fed. - Socrates

Personally, I am always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught. - Winston Churchill

Play is our brain’s favourite way of learning. - Diane Ackerman

Shall I tell you a secret of a true scholar? It is this: every man I meet is my master in some point and in that I learn from him. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing. - Thomas Huxley

Some will never learn anything because they understand everything too soon. - T. Blount

Teenagers learn best by doing things, they learn best in teams and they learn best by doing things for real - all the opposite of what mainstream schooling actually does. - Geoff Mulgan

The chief art of learning is to attempt but a little at a time. - John Locke

The greatest enemy of learning is knowing. - John Maxwell

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. - Alvin Toffler

The important point is that learning is not a fixed process, unvarying in all learners. Not only is the human organism characterized by a remarkable plasticity (that is, a striking ability to change), but it is also characterized by a variety of ways of thinking and learning. - Guy Lefrancois

The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn. - John Lubbock

The learned man has always riches within himself. - Phaedrus

The learned man is only useful to the learned. - Jean Paul R. Richter

The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot. - Audre Lorde

The learning which is got by one's own observation and experience, is as far beyond that which is got by precept, as the knowledge of a traveller exceeds that which is got by a map. - J. Tillinghast

The light of learning should be the light of truth. It should illumine the darkness of error, and a certain beacon to conduct us through the concealed, the rough, and intricate ways of the world. - Acton

The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn. - Henry S. Haskins

The more I learn, the more I realize I don’t know. - Albert Einstein

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