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| You 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. Bedford |
| Get 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. Doherty |
| I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma. ~ Eartha Kitt |
| It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts. ~ Attributed to Harry S. Truman |
| A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study. ~ Chinese Proverb |
| In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled. ~ Paul Eldridge |
| When the student is ready, the master appears. ~ Buddhist Proverb |
| Give me a fruitful error any time, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections. You can keep your sterile truth for yourself. ~ Vilfredo Pareto |
| It 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 Bronowski |
| Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned. ~ Mark Twain |
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| Man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes |
| You learn something every day if you pay attention. ~ Ray LeBlond |
| The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue. ~ Antisthenes |
| Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon. ~ Alexander Pope |
| Sit 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 Huxley |
| Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves. ~ Abbé Dimnet, |
| I don’t think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday. ~ Abraham Lincoln |
| The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr. ~ Mohammed |
| Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. ~ Chinese Proverb |
| All the world is a laboratory to the inquiring mind. ~ Martin H. Fischer |
| I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught. ~ Winston Churchill |
| The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live. ~ Mortimer Adler |
| There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm. ~ Willa Cather |
| There are many things which we can afford to forget which it is yet well to learn. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes |
| I am defeated, and know it, if I meet any human being from whom I find myself unable to learn anything. ~ George Herbert Palmer |
| Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn and you will. ~ Vernon Howard |
| Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. ~ Kurt Vonnegut |
| I find four great classes of students: The dumb who stay dumb. The dumb who become wise. The wise who go dumb. The wise who remain wise. ~ Martin H. Fischer |
| No matter how one may think himself accomplished, when he sets out to learn a new language, science, or the bicycle, he has entered a new realm as truly as if he were a child newly born into the world. ~ Frances Willard, |
| Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. ~ Henry Ford |