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“There is so much to learn when it comes to textile art, its so expansive in many different directions, and the experimentation that comes with fabrics and techniques makes it a never-ending learning experience which I love.”
Hayley Barker (born 1973) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I take a lot of joy in seeing people learn skills they can apply in their lives, and I am fortunate to experience that regularly in my current role. When I look back on my time at Vispero, and even in my previous roles, what really stands out is the ability to empower others through learning. Helping people gain skills that make their lives easier or more independent is incredibly rewarding.”
Rachel Buchanan (born 1968) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It doubles the training as for sprint you are only running and learning the techniques, but for hurdles you have to jump as well and also learn proper technique to time your jumps. So it is more demanding”
Ned Azemia (born 1997) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I learn from everything that happens every day. We never stop learning. I thank The Lord for every new day…that He allows me to be still here, singing, and to be happy at this time of my life.”
Pilita Corrales (1939–2025) first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: https://www.philstar.com/entertainment/2017/11/15/1759230/pilitas-moment-asean-gala-dinner
“Life should always be about learning something new. I would love to learn to speak fluently in as many languages as possible. Photography as well.”
Cherie Gil (1963–2022) said by 2022 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Just be strong, you can do it. And for me, ‘no day but today.’ If you want to learn to surf, do it today. Don’t put it off for tomorrow. Yes, it will be painful, there will be many injuries, many bruises, many reef cuts, many accidents that can happen, but I think that’s part of learning. Like with anything, it shouldn’t come easy.”
Mylene Dizon (born 1976) first seen 2024 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Mylene Dizon reminisces on the beginning of her surfing journey, best surfing moment, Mary Ann Bardinas 24 December 2024.
“I'm learning. There's so much more to learn in life, not just acting.”
Sylvia Sanchez (born 1971) first seen 2024 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Sylvia Sanchez: 'Miss ko na rin umarte', ABS-CBN News 7 June 2024.
“Embrace Learning: Always be curious and open-minded. Seek out opportunities to learn and don’t be afraid to step out of your comfort zone.”
Ivan Edwards first seen 2024 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Meet Ivan Edwards, Bold Journey Magazine, May 21, 2024.
“Dog breeds vary greatly in learning speed and capacity... The typical Border collie can learn a new command after 5 repetitions and respond correctly 95 percent of the time, whereas a basset hound takes 80-100 repetitions to achieve a 25 percent accuracy rate.”
Henry Harpending (1944–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It takes time to build confidence and to learn the control of their own body. It’s like a car that can go at 300 kilometres per hour. Yes, you can move at that speed but can you handle it? Success in this sport is about learning how to manage your ability.”
Wilson Kipketer (born 1972) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We can learn only so much in nets and training sessions, but out there is what really matters, and to still carry on learning and putting on performances like that at the same time is the most pleasing thing”
Bjorn Fortuin (born 1994) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Growing up, he always gave me advice about football. He helped me learn the basics of the game. But as soon as I got past a certain age, I felt like I was learning for myself almost. I felt like I was getting experiences that maybe he didn’t have.”
Jude Bellingham (born 2003) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Jude Bellingham: 'The way Dortmund integrate young players is next level', The Guardian (3 Nov 2020)
“Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The Quest Quotient has always interested me more than the Intelligence Quotient.”
Eugene S. Wilson (attributed) first seen 1968 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Reader's Digest, April 1968; and in Chip R. Bell, Managers as Mentors (1996), , p. 171
“It is a luxury to learn; but the luxury of learning is not to be compared with the luxury of teaching.”
Roswell Dwight Hitchcock (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I'm a singer who touches millions of people and my words and my knowledge of what I'm learning from cancer can help millions. And if I can help millions, even if I help one person, that's one person more than none.”
Anastacia (born 1968) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Pop Star Anastacia Battles Cancer, ABC News.com, May 2, 2004.
“From its earliest days, science has been embedded in society, there has been a continuous learning process in society as a whole, based on day to day experiences and this can become the body of the knowledge from which applications and understanding have grown. … Everything on earth has to function in harmony as a system, and it is only in such a system that humanity can flourish.”
Mambillikalathil Govind Kumar Menon (1928–2016) first seen 1998 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: in Impact of Advances in science and new technologies on society, 1998.
“Physics is an organized body of knowledge about nature, and a student of it says that he is learning physics, not nature. Art, like nature, has to be distinguished from the systematic study of it, which is criticism.”
Northrop Frye (1912–1991) said by 1991 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“One’s ears are weary of the voice of the art teacher who sits like the parrot on his perch, learning the jargon of the studios, making but poor copy and calling it criticism. We have had enough of their omniscience, their parade of technical knowledge, and their predilection for the wrong end of the stick.”
Aubrey Beardsley (1872–1898) said by 1898 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Freedom can exist only in the society of knowledge. Without learning, men are incapable of knowing their rights.”
Benjamin Rush (1746–1813) said by 1813 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To be fond of learning is to be near to knowledge. To practice with vigor is to be near to magnanimity. To possess the feeling of shame is to be near to energy.”
Confucius (551–479 BC) said by 479 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love Him and imitate Him.”
John Milton (1608–1674) said by 1674 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quote reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 364
“When I was about thirteen years old, and had succeeded in learning to read, every increase of knowledge, especially anything respecting the free states, was an additional weight to the almost intolerable burden of my thought, 'I am a slave for life'. To my bondage I could see no end. It was a terrible reality, and I shall never be able to tell how sadly that thought chafed my young spirit.”
Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) said by 1895 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.”
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) said by 1860 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In other words, the theme of this book—“full house,” or they need to focus upon variation within entire systems, and not always upon abstract measures of average or central tendency—provided substantial solace in my time of greatest need. Let no one ever say that knowledge and learning are frivolous baubles of academic stability, and that only feelings can serve us in times of personal stress.”
Stephen Jay Gould (1941–2002) said by 2002 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We do not want our world to perish. But in our quest for knowledge, century by century, we have placed all our trust in a cold, impartial intellect which only brings us nearer to destruction. We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance. Only by learning to love one another can our world be saved. Only love can conquer all.”
Dora Russell (1894–1986) first seen 1985 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Challenge to the Cold War (1985) Vol. 3, Ch. 14
“education was always a passion in my household ... you know, the very traditional approach to knowledge and learning and establishing that as a base for a good life.”
Jimmy Wales (born 1966) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Learning and wisdom are superfluities, the surface glitter merely, but it is the heart that is the seat of all power. It is not in the brain but in the heart that the Atman, possessed of knowledge, power, and activity, has its seat.”
Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902) said by 1902 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Only two kinds of people can attain to self-knowledge: those who are not encumbered at all with learning, that is to say, whose minds are not over-crowded with thoughts borrowed from others; and those who, after studying all the scriptures and sciences, have come to realize that they know nothing. (162)”
Ramakrishna (1836–1886) said by 1886 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[...] then the necessary decline of non-voluntary learning and rise of the self-assured will which perfects itself in the glorious sunlight of the free person may be somewhat expressed as follows: knowledge must die and rise again as will and create itself anew each day as a free person.”
Max Stirner (1806–1856) said by 1856 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If all are born and live for the express purpose of learning to know God, and if the knowledge of God, in so far as it fails to produce this effect, is fleeting and vain, it is clear that all those who do not direct the whole thoughts and actions of their lives to this end fail to fulfil the law of their being.”
John Calvin (1509–1564) said by 1564 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The witches, the wise women, and the healers were also always the counselors. It's a whole other tradition of knowledge and learning that has been suppressed because it had political implications.”
Starhawk (born 1951) first seen 1990 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in The Burning Times (1990)
“That’s the only thing I’ve had to fight with, my whole life, preserving my perceptions of how things are, and later, learning how to accept and correct at the same time. Doing this in the face of tremendous opposition and cruel judgment. And I spent a long time questioning my perceptions and my interior knowledge, not dealing with them, being tripped by them.”
Audre Lorde (1934–1992) said by 1992 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Your young white, who gathers his learning from books and can measure what he knows by the page, may conceit that his knowledge, like his legs, outruns that of his fathers', but, where experience is the master, the scholar is made to know the value of years, and respects them accordingly.”
James Fenimore Cooper (1789–1851) said by 1851 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Service, and the learning that goes with it, fosters citizenship, knowledge, and personal development in everyone, young and old, with disabilities and without. Our partnership with Youth Service America will bring awareness to the fact that youth with disabilities are great assets and can serve as volunteers too." —U.S. Newswire”
Clay Aiken (born 1978) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What is all your studying worth, all your learning, all your knowledge, if it doesn’t lead to wisdom? And what’s wisdom but knowing what is right, and what is the right thing to do?”
Iain Banks (1954–2013) said by 2013 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Neural Computing is the study of networks of adaptable nodes which through a process of learning from task examples, store experiential knowledge and make it available for use.”
Igor Aleksander (born 1937) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Never stop learning. The thirst to gain more knowledge should never come to an end.”
C. N. Ramachandra Rao (born 1934) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The idea that a pupil is a passive recipient, a container waiting to be filled by the teacher's knowledge and instruction - all this is nonsense. Teaching is a living relationship, of give and take, of mutual learning.”
Yehudi Menuhin (1916–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I made no Scruple of diverting (from the common Road of Studies then in fashion) to any part of Useful Learning. Presuming, that Knowledge is no Burthen; and, if of any part thereof I should afterwards have no occasion to make use, it would at least do me no hurt; And what of it l might or might not have occasion for, I could not then foresee.”
John Wallis (1616–1703) said by 1703 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When the knowledge base of an industry is both complex and expanding and the sources of expertise are widely dispersed, the locus of innovation will be found in networks of learning, rather than in individual firms.”
Walter W. Powell (born 1951) first seen 1996 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Walter W. Powell, Kenneth W. Koput, and Laurel Smith-Doerr. "Interorganizational collaboration and the locus of innovation: Networks of learning in biotechnology." Administrative science quarterly (1996): 116-145.
“To achieve this, we have to distinctively promote continuing and lifelong education, the form of education which is responsive to individual needs and preferences. With educational facilities and a variety of educational programs available, people can make use of the learning centre as a place to acquire technical skills or knowledge adaptive to their work and daily life activities.”
Sukavich Rangsitpol (born 1935) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We are not learning the occult alphabet; most of us have done all that before we came here. I used to read for about three or four hours a day before I met M.H.-not as a duty, but because I liked it. When you’ve extracted all the knowledge you can out of books, then the Master appears.”
Cyril Scott (1879–1970) said by 1970 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is our knowledge — the things we are sure of — that makes the world go wrong and keeps us from seeing and learning.”
Lincoln Steffens (1866–1936) first seen 1900 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Autobiography (1931) as cited in The Cambridge History of American Literature: Volume Five: Poetry and Criticism 1900–1950, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press (2003), p. 446
“Education opens the way to a new life and a new world. Be brave and confident. Open all doors through knowledge, open with your willpower and the impulse of your hearts, diligence, helping each other, trusting each other, learning from each other.”
Armen Sarkissian (born 1953) first seen 2021 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Congratulations on the Knowledge and Schooling Day" (1 September 2021)
“This kind of accessibility will go a long ways to enhance the reading culture and boost the enthusiasm for learning starting at a young age. I am sure, we all agree that in the end In the end, knowledge is power.”
Ange Kagame (born 1993) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The age-old metaphysical conceptions of the Divine Plan for mankind shows us the story of the human spirit learning through a long series of incarnations upon earth all those lessons which will finally give him sovereignty over all the forces of growth, and knowledge as to how to work in with the pattern of creation — as a Group.”
Vera Stanley Alder (1898–1984) said by 1984 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When doctors write, they too experience the discovery of learning what they know. It continues to astonish me that writing is an avenue to the "unthought known"-- that is, the part of knowledge that sits under awareness.”
Rita Charon (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In an age where creativity and intellectual curiosity are under threat from artificial intelligence, we must question what will happen if young Africans are not equipped with essential knowledge. Should we fail to improve foundational learning, strengthen critical thinking, and increase access to education for vulnerable learners, the long-term consequences will be severe for our continent.”
Jeannette Kagame (born 1962) first seen 2024 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: (Novembre 12,2024)
“And, this is why we need to support @Wikipedia! Brahmins hate knowledge spreading! Concealing resources, denying education and punishing for learning is an age-old Hindu culture. Become a ’HERO’ of #FreeInformation by donating [to wikipedia].”
Kiruba Munusamy first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Kiruba Munusamy (@kirubamunusamy) August 1, 2020 at Twitter. quoted in The Print, ‘Biased, anti-Hindu’ — campaign begins against Wikipedia after it urges Indians to donate 2 August, 2020
“Africa is the only continent that uses foreign language as a medium of expression in institutions of learning despite the reports of many studies confirming the fact that the mother tongue is the best medium of instruction that facilitates better understanding of knowledge”
Sophie Oluwole (1935–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Sophie Oluwole: Nigerian philosopher who put Yoruba thought on the map,10 January 2019,by Christine Manby,Peyvand Khorsandi