learning
Quotations
Quotations on the topic of ‘learning’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).
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“I saw as a teacher how, if you take that spark of learning that those children have, and you ignite it, you can take a child from any background to a lifetime of creativity and accomplishment.” -Paul Wellstone
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“Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.” -Michel de Montaigne
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“Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.” -Thomas Fuller
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“One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.” -John W. Gardner
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“One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.” -Washington Irving
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“The thing about being autistic is that you gradually get less and less autistic, because you keep learning, you keep learning how to behave. It’s like being in a play I’m always in a play.” -Temple Grandin
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“Words are but wind and learning is nothing but words ergo, learning is nothing but wind.” -Jonathan Swift
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“So in my freshman year at the University of Alabama, learning the literature on evolution, what was known about it biologically, just gradually transformed me by taking me out of literalism and increasingly into a more secular, scientific view of the world.” -E. O. Wilson
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“It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.” -Carl Friedrich Gauss
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“I’d like to be more patient! I just want everything now. I’ve tried to meditate, but it’s really hard for me to stay still. I’d like to try to force myself to do it, because everybody says how wonderful meditation is for you, but I can’t shut my mind up. So patience and learning is…
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“We have domesticated God’s transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus but our ideas about Santa Claus change, mature and become more nuanced, whereas our ideas of God can remain at a rather infantile level.” -Karen Armstrong
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“Neither comprehension nor learning can take place in an atmosphere of anxiety.” -Rose Kennedy
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“Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.” -William Arthur Ward
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“Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.” -Denis Waitley
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“Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.” -Euripides
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“A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.” -Benjamin Disraeli
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“The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one.” -M. Scott Peck
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“The least of the work of learning is done in the classroom.” -Thomas Merton
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“Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers.” -Mignon McLaughlin
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“People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.” -Francis Bacon
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“The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all.” -Harry S. Truman
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“There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.” -Christopher Morley
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“People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly.” -Andy Warhol
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“Everyone can relate to love, hurt, pain, learning how to forgive, needing to get over, needing the power of God in their life.” -Tyler Perry
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“I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.” -Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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“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.” -Thomas Moore
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“For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.” -Miguel de Cervantes
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“I continuously go further and further learning about my own limitations, my body limitation, psychological limitations. It’s a way of life for me.” -Ayrton Senna
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“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.” -Thomas Aquinas
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“Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.” -Arthur Schopenhauer
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“Learning is finding out what you already know.” -Richard Bach
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“The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.” -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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“Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.” -Jim Carrey
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“An organization’s ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.” -Jack Welch
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“The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.” -Pablo Neruda
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“Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.” -Samuel Butler
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“Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know – and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.” -Isaac Asimov
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“Education is learning what you didn’t even know you didn’t know.” -Daniel J. Boorstin
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“A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.” -Frederick Douglass
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“Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.” -Abigail Adams
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“Start with God – the first step in learning is bowing down to God only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.” -King Solomon
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“Take those chances and you can achieve greatness, whereas if you go conservative, you’ll never know. I truly believe what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. Even if you fail, learning and moving on is sometimes the best thing.” -Danica Patrick
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“I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a ‘learning experience.’ Then again, I like to think of anything stupid I’ve done as a ‘learning experience.’ It makes me feel less stupid.” -P. J. O’Rourke
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“Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.” -Ambrose Bierce
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“The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.” -Douglas Adams
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“Why don’t they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth.” -Will Rogers
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“Defense is a definite part of the game, and a great part of defense is learning to play it without fouling.” -John Wooden
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“The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.” -Albert Camus
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“Never make your home in a place. Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You’ll find what you need to furnish it – memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things. That way it will go with you wherever you journey.” -Tad Williams
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“Each year has been so robust with problems and successes and learning experiences and human experienes that a year is a lifetime at Apple. So this has been ten lifetimes.” -Steve Jobs
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“A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning.” -Brad Henry
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“When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals, he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized.” -Ayn Rand
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“Wisdom is learning what to overlook.” -William James
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“These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness.” -Anthony de Mello
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“Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.” -Wilma Rudolph
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“As long as you live, keep learning how to live.” -Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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“Some of the companies we helped start are names you know. An office supply company called Staples – where I’m pleased to see the Obama campaign has been shopping The Sports Authority, which became a favorite of my sons. We started an early childhood learning center called Bright Horizons that First Lady Michelle Obama rightly…
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“Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.” -Fred Rogers
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“A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.” -George Bernard Shaw
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“Learning without thought is labor lost thought without learning is perilous.” -Confucius
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“No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.” -Henry David Thoreau
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“Change is the end result of all true learning.” -Leo Buscaglia
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“While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.” -Leonardo da Vinci
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“Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.” -Colin Powell
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“Learning to trust is one of life’s most difficult tasks.” -Isaac Watts
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“Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.” -Jim Rohn
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“Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.” -Thomas Jefferson
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“Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.” -W. Clement Stone
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“Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.” -Oscar Wilde
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“I made decisions that I regret, and I took them as learning experiences… I’m human, not perfect, like anybody else.” -Queen Latifah
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“A lot of the problems I had with fame I was bringing on myself. A lot of self-loathing, a lot of woe-is-me. Now I’m learning to see the positive side of things, instead of, like, ‘I can’t go to Kmart. I can’t take my kids to the haunted house.’” -Eminem
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“Don’t limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.” -Rabindranath Tagore
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“The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.” -Albert Einstein
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“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.” -Henry Ford
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“A little learning is a dangerous thing Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.” -Alexander Pope
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“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.” -Plutarch
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“If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself.” -Charles M. Schulz
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“Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.” -Frank Lloyd Wright
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“In youth we learn in age we understand.” -Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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“We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. One becomes in some area an athlete of God.” -Martha Graham
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“An unschooled man who knows how to meditate upon the Lord has learned far more than the man with the highest education who does not know how to meditate.” -Charles Stanley
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“A tough lesson in life that one has to learn is that not everybody wishes you well.” -Dan Rather
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“And we are never too old to study the Bible. Each time the lessons are studied comes some new meaning, some new thought which will make us better.” -John D. Rockefeller
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“I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions.” -Lou Holtz
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“People always ask me, ‘What is it that you regret?’ And I say, ‘nothing, because I could not buy what I’ve learned.’ And I apply those things to my life I learn. And hopefully, hopefully it helps me to be a better human in the future and make better choices.” -Katy Perry
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“The minute that you’re not learning I believe you’re dead.” -Jack Nicholson
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“I learned the value of hard work by working hard.” -Margaret Mead
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“In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.” -Charles Darwin
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“We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.” -Stephen Covey
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“If you use your mind to study reality, you won’t understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you’ll understand both.” -Bodhidharma
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“It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.” -Claude Bernard
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“I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That’s were the fun is.” -Donald Trump
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“We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.” -Lucy Maud Montgomery
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“I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.” -e. e. cummings
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“I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.” -Galileo Galilei
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“I’m most proud of the blessings that God has bestowed upon me, in my life. He’s given me the vision to truly see that you can fall down, but you can still get back up. Hopefully I’ll learn from my mistakes and have the opportunity to strengthen and improve the next thing I do.” -Martin…
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“Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying.” -Johannes Tauler
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“What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn’t think I could lift another ounce of weight. What I learned is that we are always stronger than we know.” -Arnold Schwarzenegger
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“You make mistakes, but I don’t have any regrets. I’m the kind of person who takes responsibility for it and deals with it. I learn from everything I do. I work very hard, I have so many things going on in my life. Get to know me and see who I am.” -Kim Kardashian
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“The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.” -Fred Astaire
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“Surround yourself with good people. Whether they’re the best or not, people are capable of learning if they’ve got good hearts and they’re good souls.” -Kid Rock
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“We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.” -Peter Drucker
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“The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.” -Tony Robbins
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“The ultimate lesson all of us have to learn is unconditional love, which includes not only others but ourselves as well.” -Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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“Deficiency motivation doesn’t work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.” -Wayne Dyer
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“Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.” -Bill Gates
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“Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?” -Walt Whitman
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“The things that have been most valuable to me I did not learn in school.” -Will Smith
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“We learned about honesty and integrity – that the truth matters… that you don’t take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules… and success doesn’t count unless you earn it fair and square.” -Michelle Obama
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“I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.” -Pablo Picasso
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“God lets everything happen for a reason. It’s all a learning process, and you have to go from one level to another.” -Mike Tyson
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“Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.” -William S. Burroughs
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“Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.” -George S. Patton
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“The life ahead can only be glorious if you learn to live in total harmony with the Lord.” -Sai Baba
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“I never learned from a man who agreed with me.” -Robert A. Heinlein
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“Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.” -Carl Sagan
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“To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.” -Bruce Lee
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“Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.” -Benjamin Franklin
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“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.” -John F. Kennedy
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“One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn’t pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.” -Lucille Ball
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“Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” -Thomas Huxley
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“I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.” -Ernest Hemingway
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“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.” -Khalil Gibran
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“I am a woman in process. I’m just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.” -Oprah Winfrey
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“Everything I learned I learned from the movies.” -Audrey Hepburn
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“It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.” -Norman Vincent Peale
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“In times of change learners inherit the earth while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.” -Eric Hoffer
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“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.” -Maya Angelou
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“We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.” -Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” -Mahatma Gandhi
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“Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don’t wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it’s at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.” -Earl Nightingale
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“Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.” -Theodore Roosevelt
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“I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.” -Winston Churchill
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“There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.” -Jiddu Krishnamurti
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“He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance one cannot fly into flying.” -Friedrich Nietzsche
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“Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.” -Angelina Jolie
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