A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
~By Frederick Douglass ~
I love talking about women because they are a constant study and you're always learning.
~By Mario Lopez ~
Why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth.
~By Will Rogers ~
Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.
~By Colin Powell ~
Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.
~By Plato ~
Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers.
~By Mignon McLaughlin ~
Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.
~By Daniel J. Boorstin ~
I'm very learning-disabled, and I think it drove me to what I'm doing.
~By Chuck Close ~
In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.
~By Doris Lessing ~
Productivity is going to be a critical issue. And it's not just about getting more time for professors in the classroom. It involves reexamining the learning experience and restructuring faculty and the use of faculty time.
~By Roy Romer ~
It was a fantastic learning experience and OK, I got slammed because I wasn't Audrey Hepburn but you could have predicted that, really, if you'd opened your eyes wide enough.
~By Julia Ormond ~
Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
~By S. J. Perelman ~
So I went out and bought Hard Again by Muddy Waters. That was a big learning curve. I listened to that album again and again and again. James Cotton was the harmonica player on that album.
~By Sonny Terry ~
The British system had requirements, including Latin. I'm not positive you ever had to know Greek, but there are certainly kinds of curricula where you had to know Greek too. I think in Britain there was the most mindless, repetitive sort of learning.
~By William Scott ~
The fact is that the learning process goes on, and so long as the voices are not stilled and the singers go on singing some of it gets through.
~By Morris West ~
I made decisions that I regret, and I took them as learning experiences... I'm human, not perfect, like anybody else.
~By Queen Latifah ~
I played saxophone, so I was into jazz. I learned from each audience and each teacher that I had. I can't really tell you any rules or anything, but the way I develop my beliefs is really just by personally learning from different situations.
~By Chad Hugo ~
After you start learning all about the mechanics of piloting a riverboat, you stop seeing all the pretty sunsets and you start thinking about the weather.
~By John Hartford ~
We are learning, too, that the love of beauty is one of Nature's greatest healers.
~By Ellsworth Huntington ~
Year by year we are learning that in this restless, strenuous American life of ours vacations are essential.
~By Ellsworth Huntington ~
I believe that every role that I have done this far has had quality and content. My roles have been very demanding and every role has been a challenge and a learning experience that has helped me mature as an actress.
~By Natasha Henstridge ~
There are hurdles to overcome in sport and in life. Sport is a very valuable learning ground for how to live your life in the best possible way.
~By Lynn Davies ~
The only animals I'm not comfortable with are parrots, but I'm learning as I go. I'm getting better and better at 'em. I really am.
~By Steve Irwin ~
I'm thinking about learning a few new things - like taking classical guitar lessons - and I'd like to bring what I learn into hard rock.
~By Mick Mars ~
The best way of learning to be an independent sovereign state is to be an independent sovereign state.
~By Kwame Nkrumah ~
I've studied all my musical life, but learning is only good if you do something constructive with it.
~By Tony Williams ~
By keeping my hand in that, it's the way I keep learning. The main way you learn in medicine is by practicing and working with patients.
~By Andrew Weil ~
And where does magic come from? I think that magic's in the learning.
~By Dar Williams ~
We do a lot of shows for young people who have probably never been to the theater before and they are learning about the Holocaust, which unhappily, many of them do not know about.
~By Linda Lavin ~
Acting classes, I guess, are good and I would like to maybe sometime take one. But I would feel like I was learning someone else's technique. I like mine.
~By Frankie Muniz ~
I'm learning English at the moment. I can say 'Big Ben', 'Hello Rodney', 'Tower Bridge' and 'Loo'.
~By Cher ~
When Honor's sun declines, and Wealth takes wings, Then Learning shines, the best of precious things.
~By Edward Cocker ~
Learning what you don't want to do is pretty valuable, it may be as valuable as figuring out what it is you do want to do.
~By Joe Flanigan ~
I'd think learning to play the guitar would be very confusing for sighted people.
~By Doc Watson ~
Someone taught me how to eat properly. Learning from others is important when it's not working for yourself.
~By Geri Halliwell ~
That is what I'm looking forward to the most, practical learning. I want to be a registered nurse so getting to talk to people who already work in those jobs can really teach me what to expect when I get out in the real world.
~By Angela Carter ~
Imitation is being rewarded. They're learning that if you fit right in the mold, you get rewarded. Music is no longer a form of expression - it's a means to a lifestyle.
~By Mike Watt ~
Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.
~By William Penn ~
We were learning together. We'd go to various clinics and try to learn as much as possible.
~By Tom Conway ~
Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
In a world that is constantly changing, there is no one subject or set of subjects that will serve you for the foreseeable future, let alone for the rest of your life. The most important skill to acquire now is learning how to learn.
~By John Naisbitt ~
We'll go back to the moon by not learning anything new.
~By Burt Rutan ~
Quality afterschool programs provide safe, engaging and fun learning experiences to help children and youth develop their social, emotional, physical, cultural and academic skills.
~By Debbie Stabenow ~
Our learning ought to be our lives' amendment, and the fruits of our private study ought to appear in our public behavior.
~By Thomas Nashe ~
The chess player who develops the ability to play two dozen boards at a time will benefit from learning to compress his or her analysis into less time.
~By Marilyn vos Savant ~
I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point, you ain't interesting.
~By Jim Carrey ~
I never found accents difficult, after learning languages.
~By Vivien Leigh ~
We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.
~By Plato ~
There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.
~By Jiddu Krishnamurti ~
So, for example, if a child is labeled as having a learning disability, it has very concrete consequences for the kinds of services and potentially accommodations that child will get.
~By Robert Sternberg ~
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
~By Abigail Adams ~
It's only through listening that you learn, and I never want to stop learning.
~By Drew Barrymore ~
Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.
~By John Holt ~
I know it may seem surprising to people, but learning dialog that has a conversational flow to it is not that difficult.
~By Deidre Hall ~
Since its founding in 1854, Penn State has proven to be a leading institution of higher learning.
~By Tim Holden ~
In any of the arts, you never stop learning.
~By Claire Bloom ~
When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals, he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized.
~By Ayn Rand ~
I took the process of doing as much myself as I could like a duck to water. I set up my own label and publishing, etc, and it was a fun learning curve two decades ago.
~By David Knopfler ~
I was myself brought up with my brother, whose name was Matthias, for he was my own brother, by both father and mother; and I made mighty proficiency in the improvements of my learning, and appeared to have both a great memory and understanding.
~By Flavius Josephus ~
Diligent as one must be in learning, one must be as diligent in forgetting; otherwise the process is one of pedantry, not culture.
~By Albert J. Nock ~
Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.
~By Thomas Fuller ~
All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.
~By Percy Bysshe Shelley ~
We're all like children. We may think we grow up, but to me, being grown up is death, stopping thinking, trying to find out things, going on learning.
~By Mary Wesley ~
I'm writing a book and working on my one-woman show, Learning To Be Human.
~By Shirley Knight ~
When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.
~By Lillian Smith ~
Your work is first, learning is first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing.
~By Orson Scott Card ~
Belief gets in the way of learning.
~By Jeremy Collier ~
So I've seen life as one long learning process. And if I see - you know, if I fly on somebody else's airline and find the experience is not a pleasant one, which it wasn't in - 21 years ago, then I'd think, well, you know, maybe I can create the kind of airline that I'd like to fly on.
~By Richard Branson ~
Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.
~By Plato ~
A lot of what I've been learning in the last two years is due to therapy - about my sexuality, why things go wrong, why relationships haven't worked. It isn't anything to do with anybody else; it's to do with me.
~By Boy George ~
Life is about learning; when you stop learning, you die.
~By Tom Clancy ~
Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.
~By Umberto Eco ~
It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.
~By Carl Friedrich Gauss ~
Remaining vigilant toward this ever-present threat means constantly learning how better to protect ourselves. But primarily it reminds us that we must fight and win the war on terror, so that we do not have to fight it here in America.
~By Mark Kennedy ~
To know ourselves, is agreed by all to be the most useful Learning; the first Lessons, therefore, given us ought to be on that Subject.
~By Eliza Haywood ~
It's a weird sensation to be mad and learning at the same time.
~By Jeff Foxworthy ~
The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.
~By Pablo Neruda ~
If this validates anything, it's that learning how to bunt and hit and run and turning two is more important than knowing where to find the little red light at the dug out camera.
~By Ryne Sandberg ~
Not only did I get to play with these great international musicians, but I also had the opportunity to jam with the local celebrities in Toronto, people like the Walsh Brothers, David Wilcox, Kim Mitchell and the like. It was a great learning experience.
~By Jeff Healey ~
Smatterers in learning are the most opinionated.
~By Samuel Richardson ~
The tradition of Russian literature is also an eastern tradition of learning poetry and prose by heart.
~By Ryszard Kapuscinski ~
All are agreed, that the increase of learning and good morals are great blessings to society.
~By Joseph Lancaster ~
Hollywood and the recording industry argue that current law permits the copying of songs and movies, and sharing them on the Internet. This enables young people to grow up learning how to steal.
~By Suzanne Fields ~
Information is a source of learning. But unless it is organized, processed, and available to the right people in a format for decision making, it is a burden, not a benefit.
~By William Pollard ~
We wanted to solve robot problems and needed some vision, action, reasoning, planning, and so forth. We even used some structural learning, such as was being explored by Patrick Winston.
~By Marvin Minsky ~
I saw why people died and how they died. I saw gunshot wounds and liver failure. It was a good learning experience, so I came regularly on weekends and holidays.
~By Michael Baden ~
Architecture is a science arising out of many other sciences, and adorned with much and varied learning; by the help of which a judgment is formed of those works which are the result of other arts.
~By Marcus V. Pollio ~
And I believe that the best learning process of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of others.
~By Wole Soyinka ~
It's like learning a language; you can't speak a language fluently until you find out who you are in that language, and that has as much to do with your body as it does with vocabulary and grammar.
~By Fred Frith ~
One goes through school, college, medical school and one's internship learning little or nothing about goodness but a good deal about success.
~By Ashley Montagu ~
Learning to read music in Braille and play by ear helped me develop a damn good memory.
~By Ray Charles ~
I enjoyed the administrative work because it involved working with Congress, city council, and the mayor. I had never been a politician so it was fun - learning political maneuvering.
~By Harold H. Greene ~
I make personal appearances around the country. I'm starting a book tour now, and I may be coming to Toronto with the Learning Annex, which I'm doing all through the United States, so that may come up just before Christmas.
~By Burt Ward ~
Learning how to learn is life's most important skill.
~By Tony Buzan ~
The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.
~By Mortimer Adler ~
The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain; to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do.
~By Nan Fairbrother ~
I was training more learning how to scuba dive which I'd never done which was really, really, really cool.
~By Ashley Scott ~
Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
~By Petrarch ~
I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women.
~By Daniel Defoe ~
If we have a chance of succeeding and bringing stability and democracy to Iraq, it will mean learning from our mistakes, not denying them and not ignoring them.
~By Carl Levin ~
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