Learning Quotes - Page 32

Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.

People have to learn sometimes not only how much the heart, but how much the head, can bear.

The essence of education is not to stuff you with facts but to help you discover your uniqueness, to teach you how to develop it, and then to show you how to give it away.

Literature is the safe and traditional vehicle through which we learn about the world and pass on values from on generation to the next. Books save lives.

Your role as a leader is even more important than you might imagine. You have the power to help people become winners.

I am a stranger, learning to love the strangers around me

One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.

He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

I think that's what's great about being an actress is you get to learn so many different things like that, like learning a little bit of Tibetan here, learning a Southern accent there.

I am always learning, always discovering.

If you want to achieve widespread impact and lasting value, be bold.

We have heard enough about being practical and efficient and prudent. We heard it preached through several decades that these things would save the world. I think that, with the salty taste of blood and sweat on our lips, we are learning that we had best talk once again about doing what is right.

As long as the centuries continue to unfold, the number of books will grow continually, and one can predict that a time will come when it will be almost as difficult to learn anything from books as from the direct study of the whole universe. It will be almost as convenient to search for some bit of truth concealed in nature as it will be to find it hidden away in an immense multitude of bound volumes.

Americans who travel abroad for the first time are often shocked to discover that, despite all the progress that has been made in the last 30 years, many foreign people still speak in foreign languages

Why don't we teach our children in school what they are? We should say to them, 'You are unique... you have the capacity for anything. You are a marvel'.

I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.

When I learn something new - and it happens every day - I feel a little more at home in this universe, a little more comfortable in the nest.

For what one has to learn to do, we learn by doing.

If you're not failing, you're not trying anything.

What we learn from history is that people don't learn from history.

Learning how to learn is life's most important skill.

We must expect to fail...but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.

I grow old learning something new every day.

Grant was something rare in that or any war. He could learn from experience.

I learned a lesson which has stuck with me all through the years: you can learn from everybody. I didn't just learn from reading every retail publication I could get my hands on, I probably learned the most from studying what John Dunham was doing across the street