Great Learning Quotes
May 27, 2006 12:00 AM
Just a few from the potYou can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives. ~Clay P. BedfordGet over the idea that only children should spend their time in study. Be a student so long as you still have something to learn, and this will mean all your life. ~Henry L. DohertyI am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma. ~Eartha KittIt's what you learn after you know it all that counts. ~Attributed to Harry S. TrumanA single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study. ~Chinese ProverbIn the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled. ~Paul EldridgeWhen the student is ready, the master appears. ~Buddhist ProverbEducation consists mainly of what we have unlearned. ~Mark TwainIt is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it. ~Jacob BronowskiMan's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. ~Oliver Wendell HolmesYou learn something every day if you pay attention. ~Ray LeBlondThe most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue. ~AntisthenesSome people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon. ~Alexander PopeSit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing. ~Thomas HuxleyChildren have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves. ~Abb?© Dimnet, Art of Thinking, 1928I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday. ~Abraham LincolnThe ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr. ~MohammedLearning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. ~Chinese ProverbAll the world is a laboratory to the inquiring mind. ~Martin H. FischerI am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught. ~Winston Churchill
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