Learning Quotes

• Love of learning is a pleasant and universal bond since it deals with what one is and not what one has.

  

  Freya Stark
  • Deals
  • Universal
  • Pleasant

• Half of wisdom is learning what to unlearn.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Learning
  • Wisdom

• I love learning new things that will never be put to practical use.

  

  Jackson Rathbone
  • Love
  • Things
  • Use

• I've worked with some actors who have such thick skins and think they are so extraordinary. I'll think, 'Have you stopped learning?' They stop listening to directors or other actors and do the same thing again and again.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Stop
  • Listening
  • Same

• It was like beginning life anew without the vigor and enthusiasm of youth, like learning to become left-handed in old age.

  

  Chinua Achebe
  • Life
  • Age
  • Beginning

• Feeling really safe as an actor is not a great thing because you're not learning or growing.

  

  Gabriella Wilde
  • Great
  • Feeling
  • Growing

• Learning should be engaging. Testing should not be the be all and end all. All students should have a broad curriculum that includes the arts and enrichment. Students should have opportunities to work in teams and engage in project-based learning. And student and family well-being should be front and center.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Work
  • Family
  • Learning

• I am very interested in Ayurvedic medicine and hope to explore it more someday. I only have a very superficial understanding of the whole thing right now. But learning what my body type is has shifted my whole self-care regime a bit, and I feel better because of it.

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • Body
  • Medicine
  • Ayurvedic

• Quintilian [educational writer in Rome around A.D. 100] thought that the earliest years of the child's life were crucial. Education should start earlier than age seven, within the family. It should not be so hard as to give the child an aversion to learning. Rather, these early lessons would take the form of play--that embryonic notion of kindergarten.

  

  William C. Somerville
  • Life
  • Children
  • Family

• Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open.

  

  Laura Bush
  • World
  • Children
  • Child

• Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Education
  • Study
  • inspirational

• Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.

  

  Abigail Adams
  • Education
  • Learning
  • Chance

• Meditation is not a process of learning how to meditate; it is the very inquiry into what is meditation. To inquire into what is meditation, the mind must free itself from what it has learnt about meditation, and the freeing of the mind from what it has learnt is the beginning of meditation.

  

  Jiddu Krishnamurti
  • Mind
  • Free
  • Beginning

• Yes, it is a rehearsed show, yes, it was analogy of going to see a play at the theatre, where everything has to be in place and whole things, everything being works, all works together to get the best effect you know it's more like an actor learning a part.

  

  John Deacon Queen
  • Together
  • Learning
  • Theatre

• All the teaching I had ever received had failed to make me apply such intelligence as I was possessed of, directly and vividly: there had never been any sunshine, as regards language, in the earlier grey days of learning, for the sky had always pelted with gerunds and optatives.

  

  E. F. Benson
  • Sky
  • Intelligence
  • Sunshine

• It's not all silliness, as interactive SXSW is filled with aggressive learning, discussing, and a whole lot of futurizing.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Learning
  • Whole
  • Aggressive

• I had been impressed by the fact that biological systems were based on molecular machines and that we were learning to design and build these sorts of things.

  

  K. Eric Drexler
  • Learning
  • Design
  • Build

• If you live in the overlapping world of politics and media, as I am learning, anything less than full transparency can potentially do you in.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • World
  • Live
  • Politics

• The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.

  

  B. B. King
  • Beautiful
  • You
  • Learning

• Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Good
  • Learning
  • Brain

• I'm still learning my craft.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Learning
  • Still
  • Craft

• The older you get, you always learn more. Sometimes it's a process of learning about yourself and what your journey is. Sometimes the process moves forward at a rapid pace in a short amount of time - or moves backwards. And you're like, "Man, I thought I had made so much progress, and now all of a sudden, I'm 10 steps further behind than when I started."

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Time
  • Progress
  • Journey

• Going to a party, for me, is as much a learning experience as, you know, sitting in a lecture.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Experience
  • Party
  • New Years

• We should always be suspicious when machine-learning systems are described as free from bias if it's been trained on human-generated data. Our biases are built into that training data.

  

  Kate Crawford
  • Free
  • Learning
  • Training

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