“I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”
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“The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.”
“I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship.”
“Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.”
“Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities - that's training or instruction - but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed.”
“Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.”
“If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.”
“The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.”
“To make no mistakes is not in the power of man but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.”
“The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.”
“Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.”
“He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.”
“Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.”
“Defense is a definite part of the game, and a great part of defense is learning to play it without fouling.”
“In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.”
“Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.”
“The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.”
“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”
“We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.”
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
“I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands you need to be able to throw something back.”
“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.”
“I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.”
“Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.”