Learning Quotes
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One learned gentleman, "a sage grave man," Talk'd of the Ghost in Hamlet, "sheath'd in steel"— His well-read friend, who next to speak began, Said, "That was poetry, and nothing real;" A third, of more extensive learning, ran To Sir George Villiers' Ghost, and Mrs. Veal; Of sheeted Spectres spoke with shorten'd breath, And thrice he quoted Drelincourt on Death.
Bill Vaughan
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No one has ever known me as clearly as you. No one has ever shown me that love allows everything. Not pretty or safe or easy but something I never knew. Love within reason, that isn't love and I learned that from you.
Stephen Sondheim
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My father had a friend who actually had a hollow-body bass guitar and didn't work through an amp, but because it was hollow body, I could play it. So I kind of played on that for about a year, learning scales and all that. And here I am.
Robert Trujillo Metallica
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A lifetime is not too long to spend in learning about the world.
Caroline Pratt
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We learn from a passage in Strabo, that it was a dogma of the Gaulish Druids that the universe was immortal, but destined to survive catastrophes both of fire and water. That this doctrine was communicated to them from the East, with much of their learning, cannot be doubted.
Charles Lyell
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Apart from my children, spending time with refugees was the greatest gift... the greatest life lesson I could ever receive.
Angelina Jolie
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Finally, the truth. Lying with his face pressed into the dusty carpet of the office where he had once thought he was learning the secrets of victory, Harry understood at last that he was not supposed to survive.
Joanne Rowling
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The real hallmark of learning is transferring what you’ve learned into new contexts.
Eric Mazur
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To be fond of learning is to draw close to wisdom. To practice with vigor is to draw close to benevolence. To know the sense of shame is to draw close to courage. He who knows these three things knows how to cultivate his own character. Knowing how to cultivate his own character, he knows how to govern other men. Knowing how to govern other men, he knows how to govern the world, its states, and its families.
Confucius
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The difficulties of not knowing are always much greater than the effort of learning.
Andrew Loomis
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I enjoyed learning French, and I enjoyed speaking French.
Ben Miller
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You do magic by learning formae which are like shapes in your mind that have an effect on the physical universe.
Ben Aaronovitch
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When I was starting out, the first women studio heads and writers were just getting into their perches - development execs learning their chops.
Lynda Obst
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I'm learning on the guitar all the time.
James Vincent McMorrow
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To those who do not know mathematics it is difficult to get across a real feeling as to the beauty, the deepest beauty, of nature ... If you want to learn about nature, to appreciate nature, it is necessary to understand the language that she speaks in.
Richard Feynman
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We'll be going to the fish market and a farmer's market this afternoon to get what we need to make and eat dinner as a family. I'm trying to expose my kids to going to a farmers market or the fish market and learning what that's all about.
Emeril Lagasse
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I believe through learning and application of what you learn, you can solve any problem, overcome any obstacle and achieve any goal that you can set for yourself.
Brian Tracy
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Universities won't survive. The future is outside the traditional campus, outside the traditional classroom. Distance learning is coming on fast.
Peter Drucker
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Anxiety checks learning. A feeling of well being and respect stimulates an alert mind.
Eda LeShan
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The human race is not divided into two opposing camps of good and evil. It is made up of those who are capable of learning and those who are incapable of doing so.
E. O. Wilson
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I consider studying the Bible to be a valid form of lifelong learning. If “garbage in, garbage out” is true, then the reverse must be true also.
Bob Buford
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
William Butler Yeats
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I'm always trying new things and learning new things. If there isn't anything more you can learn - go off and die.
Morgan Freeman
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The hills are reared, the seas are scooped in vain If learning's altar vanish from the plain.
William Ellery Channing