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“So take these broken wings and learn to fly again, learn to live so free And when we hear the voices sing the book of love will open up for us and let us in Take these broken wings You got to learn to fly again, got to learn to live so free And when we hear the voices sing the book of love will open up and let us in Yeah, yeah”
John Miles (1949–2021) first seen 1985 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Broken Wings" (song, 1985, by American pop rock band Mr. Mister)
“Let us learn from one another. Let us learn to be humble servants to one another. Let us learn to stand in defense of our humanity, let us learn to stand in defense of our dignity, humanity, not only one community, not only one race, or not only one ethnicity.”
Azza Karam (born 1968) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“what are some things you are interested in? Whatever you want to learn, anything is possible. If you want to be a coder, you can go online and learn how to code. The tools around us to learn are greater than any time before. Anything is at your finger tips if you want to learn”
Everette Taylor (born 1989) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: EVERETTE TAYLOR SAYS ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE AND HERE’S WHY,20 September 2020
“A neural network is a massively parallel distributed processor that has a natural propensity for storing experiential knowledge and making it available for use. It resembles the brain in two respects: 1. Knowledge is acquired by the network through a learning process. 2. Interneuron connection strengths known as synaptic weights are used to store the knowledge.”
Igor Aleksander (born 1937) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As cited in: Brian D. Ripley (2008) Pattern Recognition and Neural Networks. p.4
“We are born in ignorance, we die in ignorance, but maybe sometimes we learn something important and pass it along to others before we die. Or we write it down in a little book.”
Greg Bear (1951–2022) said by 2022 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We need to have a way for computers to read books on chemistry and learn chemistry. Or read books on physics and learn physics. Or biology. Or whatever. We just don’t do that today. Our AI programs are handcrafted and knowledge engineered. We will be forever doing that unless we can find out how to build programs that read text, understand text, and learn from text.”
Edward Feigenbaum (born 1936) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The central task of education is to implant a will and a facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people. The truly human society is a learning society, where grandparents, parents, and children are students together. In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.”
Eric Hoffer (1902–1983) said by 1983 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Learning and enjoyment are the secret to a fulfilled life. Learning without enjoyment wears you down, enjoyment without learning dulls you.”
Richard David Precht (born 1964) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quote translated from his German book: Wer bin ich – und wenn ja, wie viele? Eine philosophische Reise, Goldmann, München 2007,
“‘Once you stop learning, you start dying.’ I first heard this maxim by Albert Einstein in my twenties. At the time I thought it was nonsense. How wrong I was. Learning and success are totally interlinked. Do not make the mistake of thinking that learning ends when you complete your final exams.”
Nigel Cumberland (born 1967) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The seventh lesson that I learnt is to always keep on learning. I believe in learning all the time, I’m a life-long learner… I also believe in re-learning, because there are always new things coming out. My kids are teaching me things today”
Divine Ndhlukula (born 1960) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is need to emphasise that education is now going the way of e-learning. The polytechnic has three e-learning centers, in addition to two units donated by NITDA. As much as we have encouraged staff to be computer literate, it is also necessary that students begin to imbibe the correct use of computers for learning.”
Philipa Idogho first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Dr Philipa speak on literate learning in 2013.
“Most students accessed their learning materials on their mobile phones. Zoom, Microsoft, Skype, Moodle and Google Classroom were among the most common platforms used for e-learning. Students from 15 to 25 years of age were eager to use online learning. “Even if COVID-19 remains, we will have it easier to transit to online with new students.”
Maud Kamatenesi Mugisha (born 1969) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I felt as if I was failing my people, but I'm 21. I'm still learning to walk; I'm still learning to crawl; I'm still learning life. Why do I feel so guilty for living, you know”
Aweng Ade-Chuol first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Rebirth of Aweng Chuol,28 June 2020,story by mario abad
“Not just academic learning, but learning from people as well… Never stop learning.”
Kara David (born 1973) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.”
John Archibald Wheeler (1911–2008) first seen 1992 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted by author John Horgan in "The New Challenges," in Scientific American (1992), Vol. 267, Num. 6, page 20. https://www-jstor-org.proxy.library.cornell.edu/stable/24939319?seq=1
“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
Isaac Asimov (1920–1992) first seen 1980 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A Cult of Ignorance", Newsweek (21 January 1980).
“Knowledge is not happiness, and science But an exchange of ignorance for that Which is another kind of ignorance.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Of all the frictional resistances, the one that most retards human movement is ignorance, what Buddha called 'the greatest evil in the world.' The friction which results from ignorance ... can be reduced only by the spread of knowledge and the unification of the heterogeneous elements of humanity. No effort could be better spent.”
Nikola Tesla (1856–1943) first seen 1900 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Problem of Increasing Human Energy", The Century (Jun 1900), 211. Collected in The Century (1900), Vol. 60, 211
“The reality which is the mere consciousness that remains when ignorance is destroyed along with knowledge of objects, alone is the Self [atma]. In that Brahma-swarupa [real form of Brahman], which is abundant Self-awareness, there is not the least ignorance.”
Ramana Maharshi (1879–1950) said by 1950 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Although science claims the whole universe as its field... it confesses that its ignorance is more widely extended than its knowledge. In this very confession... it finds a safeguard for future progress. Science cannot... allow theologian or metaphysician... to the foreshore of our present ignorance, and so hinder the development in due time...”
Karl Pearson (1857–1936) said by 1936 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Antisemitism is a symptom of ignorance, and the cure for ignorance is knowledge. Harvard must model what it means to preserve free expression while combating prejudice and preserving the security of our community. We are undertaking that hard, long-term work with the attention and intensity it requires.”
Claudine Gay (born 1970) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What kind of scholar was I? Or was I a scholar at all? My ignorance was enormous. Beside it my knowledge was nothing. My hunger for learning, not so much to improve my lot as to understand my world, had led me to study and to thought. Reading without thinking is as nothing, for a book is less important for what it says than for what it makes you think.”
Louis L'Amour (1908–1988) said by 1988 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Mechanical knowledge may... be distinguished into three kinds; purely scientific knowledge, purely practical knowledge, and that intermediate kind of knowledge which relates to the application of scientific principles to practical purposes, and which arises from understanding the harmony of theory and practice.”
William John Macquorn Rankine (1820–1872) said by 1872 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The misconception that knowledge needs authority to be genuine or reliable dates back to antiquity, and it still prevails. To this day, most courses in the philosophy of knowledge teach that knowledge is some form of justified, true belief, where ‘justified’ means designated as true (or at least ‘probable’) by reference to some authoritative source or touchstone of knowledge.”
David Deutsch (born 1953) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“One has to fill up the heart with Knowledge. The Knowledge has a form that’s called 'upadesh' (nt: sub–country; also teaching, instruction). There are many countries such as England, Germany, and India, but Knowledge is not this kind of country. This country is something different. Knowledge is the thing that when it is realized, a person becomes free.”
Prem Rawat (born 1957) first seen 1965 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Dehradun, India, December 1, 1965 (translated from Hindi)
“Philosophical knowledge is the knowledge gained by reason from concepts; mathematical knowledge is the knowledge gained by reason from the construction of concepts.”
Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) said by 1804 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What we are after is the ROOT and not the branches. The root is the real knowledge; the branches are surface knowledge. Real knowledge breeds "body feel" and personal expression; surface knowledge breeds mechanical conditioning and imposing limitation and squelches creativity.”
Bruce Lee (1940–1973) said by 1973 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The goal of mankind is knowledge. . . . Now this knowledge is inherent in man. No knowledge comes from outside: it is all inside. What we say a man "knows," should, in strict psychological language, be what he "discovers" or "unveils"; what man "learns" is really what he discovers by taking the cover off his own soul, which is a mine of infinite knowledge.”
Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902) said by 1902 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The end of man is knowledge but there's one thing he can't know. He can't know whether knowledge will save him or kill him. He will be killed, all right, but he can't know whether he is killed because of the knowledge which he has got or because of the knowledge which he hasn't got and which if he had it would save him.”
Robert Penn Warren (1905–1989) said by 1989 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Now I wonder what our knowledge has in common with God's knowledge according to those who treat God's knowledge... Is there anything else common to both besides the mere name? ...there is an essential distinction between His knowledge and ours, like the distinction between the substance of the heavens and that of the earth.”
Maimonides (1135–1204) said by 1204 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“At bottom, knowledge of God in faith is always this indirect knowledge of God, knowledge of God in His works, and in these particular works in the determining and using of certain creaturely realities to bear witness to the divine objectivity. What distinguishes faith from unbelief, erroneous faith and superstition is that it is content with this indirect knowledge of God.”
Karl Barth (1886–1968) said by 1968 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“All the time we find ourselves in situations where people know things about the program, but they can't apply that knowledge to the program. Why? Because the knowledge runs counter to some organizational decision that was made before they had that knowledge. In other words, the program becomes resistant to that collection of knowledge.”
Ward Cunningham (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The social distribution of knowledge thus begins with the simple fact that I do not know everything known to my fellowmen, and vice versa, and culminates in exceedingly complex and esoteric systems of expertise. Knowledge of how the socially available stock of knowledge is distributed, at least in outline, is an important element of that same stock of knowledge.”
Peter L. Berger (1929–2017) said by 2017 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Theoretical knowledge is only a small and by no means the most important part of what passed for knowledge in a society… the primary knowledge about the institutional order is knowledge... is the sum total of ‘what everybody knows’ about a social world, an assemblage of maxims, morals, proverbial nuggets of wisdom, values and beliefs, myths, and so forth.”
Peter L. Berger (1929–2017) said by 2017 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For centuries knowledge meant proven knowledge... Einstein's results again turned the tables and now very few philosophers or scientists still think that scientific knowledge is, or can be, proven knowledge. But few realize that with this the whole classical structure of intellectual values falls in ruins and has to be replaced.”
Imre Lakatos (1922–1974) said by 1974 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: p. 92 as cited in: Anthony C. Thiselton (2007) The Hermeneutics of Doctrine. p. 166.
“The more one shares knowledge, the more of it one has, and the more complete it becomes. Moreover, it is the sharing of knowledge that brings about greater knowledge and inspires more and better thought. Knowledge is not subject to purely commercial considerations, just as good books are not subject to the prevalent economy.”
Shulamith Hareven (1930–2003) said by 2003 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The brain is more valuable than the skull. But everybody has a brain. Inside the brain are wisdom and knowledge. Wisdom and knowledge are the most valuable things in the body. I want to be number one in the business of supplying wisdom and knowledge all over Japan. But the knowledge industry is too big, too wide.”
Masayoshi Son (born 1957) first seen 1992 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Japanese-Style Entrepreneurship: An Interview with Softbank’S CEO, Masayoshi Son" in Harvard Business Review (1992)
“Knowledge Representation. In constructing intelligent tutors, two aspects of knowledge representation (qv) are important. First, what knowledge do teachers and trainers use to understand the domain, diagnose student behavior, and select new strategic approaches, and second, what are good representational schemes for encoding domain knowledge.”
Beverly Park Woolf wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The most important thing any teacher has to learn, not to be learned in any school of education I ever heard of, can be expressed in seven words: Learning is not the product of teaching. Learning is the product of the activity of learners.”
John Holt (1923–1985) first seen 1984 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Growing Without Schooling magazine, no. 40 (1984).
“What would that be, a world without war? It would be the real world. Peace was the true life, the life of working and learning and bringing up children to work and learn. War, which devoured work, learning, and children, was the denial of reality.”
Ursula K. Le Guin (1929–2018) first seen 1994 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Betrayals", p. 1; first published in Blue Motel (1994)
“Learning organizations" [are] organizations where people continually expand their capacity to create the results they truly desire, where new and expansive patterns of thinking are nurtured, where collective aspiration is set free, and where people are continually learning how to learn together.”
Peter Senge (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Collaboration is important not just because it's a better way to learn. The spirit of collaboration is penetrating every institution and all of our lives. So learning to collaborate is part of equipping yourself for effectiveness, problem solving, innovation and life-long learning in an ever-changing networked economy.”
Don Tapscott (born 1947) first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Don Tapscott, in: The spirit of collaboration is touching all of our lives, The Globe and Mail, 7 June 2013
“Philosophers have always spoken of life as a "preparation for death", and of philosophy as a "learning to die". But there is a wisdom prior to that: learning to abstain; not putting anyone in the situation of having to learn to die.”
Julio Cabrera (born 1944) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Porque te amo, não nascerás! Nascituri te salutant, 2009, p. 79
“It's a matter of experience. I've done a lot of learning. I used to buy a lot of fashion magazines and see all the poses of the girls. I'd buy Sports Illustrated and see the specific poses and how girls look better and the best angles – it's like reading up on material for a test and learning what's good. Look at pictures of yourself and learn lights. It's a matter of exercise.”
Bar Refaeli (born 1985) first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Bar Refaeli interview: Body and beauty secrets" cosmopolitan (June 6, 2013)
“We’re still learning, and we will continue to learn because COVID-19 is so devastating and so impactful that we don’t think the learning period is over. The pandemic drove home to the continent the level of dependency on everything.”
Chinelo Anohu first seen 2021 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speaking in an interview (April 26 2021)
“The process of research is learning, unlearning and re-learning. We need to have the humility and willingness to learn from others and realise you need to re-think what you know.”
Julie Makani (born 1970) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“By far, academia! One word: students. I think hanging around with people that still have that passion for learning keeps me excited to learn new things. I believe I’m not going to stop learning until I’m brain dead, so I like being around people that have that zest for life and that passion for science and that optimism. They’re not jaded.”
Oluwatoyin Asojo (born 1950) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We learn a lot through interaction in real time and in a real shared physical space. Of course, we have attentive support for transition to campus learning and counselling for any student facing difficulty balancing campus presence, online learning and interaction.”
Nazira Karodia (born 1950) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We need to focus on integrating technology that makes a difference and enhances learning. Students learn best when they are actively engaged and create and drive their own learning.”
Cheryl Brown (educator) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You need to learn to keep learning. You need to be open to keep learning. Never think that you know everything.”
Solenn Heussaff (born 1985) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: . "Solenn Heussaff: "Invest in yourself and in your travels". PEP.ph. FM Ganal. 27 August 2019.