Learning Quotes - Page 21

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.

A true bubble is when something is overvalued and intensely believed. Education may be the only thing people still believe in in the United States. To question education is really dangerous. It is the absolute taboo. It's like telling the world there's no Santa Claus.

We need to haunt the house of history and listen anew to the ancestors' wisdom.

If you truly want to become a better you, it is imperative that you learn to feel good about yourself.

The way to learn to do things is to do things. The way to learn a trade is to work at it. Success teaches how to succeed. Begin with the determination to succeed, and the work is half done already.

The ultimate lesson is learning how to love and be loved unconditionally

Learning is experience understood in tranquility.

That's what Chess is all about. One day you give your opponent a lesson, the next day he gives you one

I expect I shall be a student to the end of my days.

More important than talent, strength, or knowledge is the ability to laugh at yourself and enjoy the pursuit of your dreams.

You've always had the power right there in your shoes, you just had to learn it for yourself.

If you would attain to what you are not yet, you must always be displeased by what you are. For where you are pleased with yourself there you have remained. Keep adding, keep walking, keep advancing.

A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.

Vague and nebulous is the beginning of all things, but not their end.

Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor the best opportunities; they will never come.

I maintained my edge by always being a student; you will always have something new to learn.

Learning to take hold of one's life is very difficult in a culture that values property over life.

The disposition to continue to learn throughout life is perhaps one of the most important contributions that schools can make to an individual's development.

Don't be afraid to go for positions, jobs or take on clients just outside of your knowledge base. It's when you're uncomfortable that you learn and grow the most.

The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.

Most people have learned to live in the moment. The argument goes that if the past has uncertain effect on the present, there is no need to dwell on the past. And if the present has little effect on the future, present actions need not be weighed for their consequence. Rather, each act is an island in time, to be judged on its own. ... It is a world of impulse. It is a world of sincerity. It is a world in which every word spoken speaks just to that moment, every glance given has only one meaning.

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

Well. There was noting to be done for it. Things had happened as they did, time's arrow had yet to be reversed by humans, done was done. If a man spent his life looking over his shoulder at every possible branching of his path he could have taken, he would never accomplish anything. One must learn from history so as not to repeat it, but one must not waste one's energy or time worrying about what might have been. Sorry . . . but people die every day and the galaxy continues on quite well without them. Consider yourself lucky you are one of those as yet unselected by the Fates.

Learn to wait; invariably either things will change or your heart will.

We must learn to apply all that we know so that we can attract all that we want.