Learning Quotes And Sayings

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“The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.” 
– Henry S. Haskins

“I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure–which is: Try to please everybody.”
– Herbert Bayard Swope

“It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.” 
– Jacob Bronowski

“More important than learning how to recall things is finding ways to forget things that are cluttering the mind.”
– James Waddell Alexander

“If you believe everything you read, better not read.”
– Japanese Proverb

“Everyone has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases.”
– Jeremy Collier

“Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant. There is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.”
– Johann Gottfried Von Herder

“No one as ever completed their apprenticeship.”
– Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think—rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with the thoughts of other men.”
– John Dewey

“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”
– John Locke

“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

“One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.”
– John W. Gardner

“March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life‘s path.”
– Kahlil Gibran

“Everyone and everything around you is your teacher.”
– Ken Keyes

“The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business–or almost anywhere else for that matter.”
– Lee Lacocca

“The best of my education has come from the public library… my tuition fee is a bus fare and once in a while, five cents a day for an overdue book.  You don’t need to know very much to start with, if you know the way to the public library.” 
– Lesley Conger

“We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.”
– Lloyd Alexander

“Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.”
– Louis. D. Brandeis

“I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning how to sail my ship.”
– Louisa May Alcott

“You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.”
– Lyndon B. Johnson

“He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.”
– Mahatma Gandhi

“Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.”  
– Mark Twain

“If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.”
– Mark Twain

“Supposing is good, but finding out is better.”
– Mark Twain

“Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.” 
– Mark Twain

“All the world is a laboratory to the inquiring mind.”
– Martin H. Fischer

“I find four great classes of students:  The dumb who stay dumb.  The dumb who become wise.  The wise who go dumb.  The wise who remain wise.” 
– Martin H. Fischer

“It is not hard to learn more.  What is hard is to unlearn when you discover yourself wrong.”
– Martin H. Fischer

“The pupil can only educate himself.  Teachers are the custodians of apparatus upon which he himself must turn and twist to acquire the excellencies that distinguish the better from the poorer of God‘s vessels.” 
– Martin H. Fischer

“You don’t understand anything until you learn it more than one way.” 
– Marvin Minsky

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