Learning Quotes - Page 36

• It must be remembered that the purpose of education is not to fill the minds of students with facts... it is to teach them to think.

  Robert M. Hutchins

  Education, Thinking, Mind

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• Native ability without education is like a tree without fruit.

  Aristippus

  Education, School, Tree

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  Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

  James Joyce

  Inspiring, Encouraging, Mistake

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• You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.

  Arthur Ashe

  Sports, Equality, Racism

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• The further one advances in experience, the closer one comes to the unfathomable; the more one learns to utilize experience, the more one recognizes that the unfathomable is of no practical value.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Experience, Practicals, Unfathomable

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1963). “Goethe's world view: presented in his reflections and maxims”

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• Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won't have time to make them all yourself.

  Alfred Sheinwold

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

  Henry Ford

  Leadership, Education, Wise

  "The Secret of Staying in Love". Book by John Powell, p. 85, 1990.

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• Life is a learning experience, only if you learn.

  Yogi Berra

  Experience, Life Is, Ifs

  Yogi Berra (2010). “What Time Is It? You Mean Now?: Advice for Life from the Zennest Master of Them All”, p.76, Simon and Schuster

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• Smart people don't learn... because they have too much invested in proving what they know and avoiding being seen as not knowing.

  Chris Argyris

  Smart, Teaching, Knowing

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• We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Morning, Philosophy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2366, Delphi Classics

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• No one as ever completed their apprenticeship.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Experience, Apprenticeship

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• I've known countless people who were reservoirs of learning, yet never had a thought.

  Wilson Mizner

  People, Experience, Reservoirs

  Evanell K. Powell Brant, Addison Mizner, Wilson Mizner (1979*). “Debauched Proverbs and Other Miznerisms of Addison Mizner and Wilson Mizner”

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• Learning isn't a means to an end; it is an end in itself.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Mean, Experience, Ends

  Robert A. Heinlein (2010). “Time for the Stars”, p.55, Macmillan

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• We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure-all your life.

  John W. Gardner

  Courage, Powerful, Fear

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• Every failure teaches a man something, to wit, that he will probably fail again.

  H. L. Mencken

  Failure, Men, Failing

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.617, Vintage

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• You always pass failure on the way to success.

  Mickey Rooney

  Life, Motivational, Success

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• The greatest failure is the failure to try.

  William Arthur Ward

  Life, Failure, Inspiration

  William Arthur Ward (1968). “Thoughts of a Christian Optimist: The Words of William Arthur Ward”

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• The difference between intelligence and an education is this: that intelligence will make a good living for you, but education won't do much for you at all.

  Charles Kettering

  Education, Differences, Intelligence

  "Prophet of progress: selections from the speeches of Charles F. Kettering".

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• The mind is like the stomach. It is not how much you put into it that counts, but how much it digests...

  Albert J. Nock

  Inspirational, Parenting, Intelligence

  Harper's Magazine, Vol. 154, (p. 730), 1927.

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• We are drowning in information
  but starved for knowledge.

  John Naisbitt

  Reading, Book, Knowledge

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• It is well, when the wise and the learned discover new truths; but how much better to diffuse the truths already discovered, amongst the multitude! Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power; and while a philosopher is discovering one new truth, millions may be propagated amongst the people. Diffusion, then, rather than discovery, is the duty of our government.

  Horace Mann

  Wise, Knowledge, Land

  "Lectures on Education".

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• A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

  James Joyce

  Inspirational, Mistake, Knowledge

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• The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown.

  Albert Einstein

  Knowledge, Differences, People

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• What we do not understand we do not possess.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Education, Wisdom, Knowledge

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2012). “The Goethe Treasury: Selected Prose and Poetry”, p.294, Courier Corporation

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• There is only one thing worse than training employees and losing them,
  and that's not training them and keeping them

  Zig Ziglar

  Funny, Leadership, Knowledge

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