Learning Quotes, Proverbs & Sayings - Page 16

The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
James Madison

By not trying too hard, we avoid learning what our true potential is, and having to fulfill it. Doing our best can be deeply threatening. It forces us to consider what we’re actually capable of accomplishing. Once we learn the lesson we can’t unlearn it. Our true potential becomes a shining light we can follow…
Farson and Keyes

Life is a series of lessons that have to be understood.
Thomas Carlyle

It’s a weird sensation to be mad and learning at the same time.
Jeff Foxworthy

We have to learn to be our own best friends because we fall too easily into the trap of being our own worst enemies.
Roderick Thorp

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
Albert Einstein

We are a long time in learning that all our strength and salvation is in God.
David Brainerd

What a child can do today with assistance, she will be able to do by herself tomorrow.
Lev Vygotsky

To know yet to think that one does not know is best;
Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.
Lao-Tzu

The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbors, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.
Voltaire

I have often thought that nothing would do more extensive good at small expense than the establishment of a small circulating library in every county, to consist of a few well-chosen books, to be lent to the people of the country under regulations as would secure their safe return in due time.
Thomas Jefferson

Every man – in the development of his own personality – has the right to form his own beliefs and opinions. Hence, suppression of belief, opinion and expression is an affront to the dignity of man, a negation of man’s essential nature.
Thomas I. Emerson

There has to be innate circuitry that does the learning, that creates the culture, that acquires the culture, and that responds to socialization.
Steven Pinker

My grandmother wanted me to have an education, so she kept me out of school.
Margaret Mead

You should be having more fun in high school, exploring things because you want to explore them and learning because you love learning-not worrying about competition.
Maya Lin

Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail.
Luciano Pavarotti

In order to stave off covetouness, greed, and spite, citizens world over must be educated.
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain; to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do.
Nan Fairbrother

I believe that the testing of the student’s achievements in order to see if he meets some criterion held by the teacher, is directly contrary to the implications of therapy for significant learning.
Carl Rogers

The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learning, and from that irreverence love may spring.
Robertson Davies

Love is a gift. You can’t buy it, you can’t find it, someone has to give it to you. Learn to be receptive of that gift.
Kurt Langner

Human reason can neither predict nor deliberately shape its own future. Its advances consist in finding out where it has been wrong.
Fredrich August von Hayek

My father is a chemist, my mother was a homemaker. My parents instilled in us the feeling that learning was the most exciting thing that could happen to you, and it never ends.
Rita Dove

What a relief it was to discover that I wasnt realy an idiot! I simply had a learning disability.
John H. Johnson

Let the main object… to seek and to find a method of instruction, by which teachers may teach less, but learners learn more.
John Amos Comenius

I learn as much from a turtle as from a religious text.
Anonymous

It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man’s oration–nay, it is a very easy matter; but to produce a better in its place is a work extremely troublesome.
Michael Montaigne

The too soft teacher reinforces the learner’s natural wish to retreat and stay safe… the teacher must know when to let the learner struggle… we must not be spared our learning. Risk brings its own rewards.
Aquarian Conspiracy

An art can only be learned in the workshop of those who are winning their bread by it.
Samuel Butler

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