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“Learning the science of the everyday is a direct route to the... knowledge... every citizen needs...”
Helen Czerski (born 1978) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Is [AI] gonna be like the printing press that diffused knowledge, power, and learning widely across the landscape that empowered ordinary, everyday individuals that led to greater flourishing, that led above all two greater liberty? Or is it gonna be more like the atom bomb – huge technological breakthrough, but the consequences (severe, terrible) continue to haunt us to this day?”
Sam Altman (born 1985) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Sam Altman warns AI could kill us all. But he still wants the world to use it (October 31, 2023)
“Not all of us are gifted in the academia scene and not all of us are good at doing the main subjects such as science and math, but everyone is gifted one way or another, so if you’re a musician take music classes to increase the knowledge that you have right now and improve the quality of your work. But never stop learning.”
Katlego Ntirang wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The universe had other ideas for me though, and I now believe that my classroom is wherever I am called to speak, write, and add my voice. There are many ways to Impart knowledge, and my passion is to keep learning, so I can teach.”
Basetsana Kumalo (born 1974) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I kind of grew up learning to train others to do things—teach people to cook, drive, build; just generally impacting knowledge. So I would say that I am a ‘natural formator’.”
Francisca Oladipo (born 1978) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Lord Mountstuart Elphinstone (1779-1859) in comparing the ancient Greeks with the ancient Hindus, says: "Their (Hindus) general learning was more considerable; and in the knowledge of the being and nature of God, they were already in possession of a light which was but faintly perceived even by the loftiest intellects in the best days of Athens.”
Mountstuart Elphinstone (1779–1859) first seen 1779 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Lord Mountstuart Elphinstone (1779-1859). The History Of India Vol I By The Hon Mountstu Art Elphinstone 1843 by The Hon Mountstuart Elphinstone
“Wikidata is one of the best options for an open, common knowledge graph of background information for use in an application or AI system. SPARQL is the most common way to access the data and here's one resource to get help in learning how to use it effectively.”
Tim Finin (born 1949) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Thoughts on Wikidata from a September 3, 2020 tweet.
“Planning a good menu demands experience, a certain amount of knowledge and a good deal of thought. I'm only half-joking when I say that learning how to order well in Chinese restaurants is one of my life's proudest achievements.”
Fuchsia Dunlop (born 1950) first seen 1698 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: , Particular Books, 2023, chapter "The bold and the bland", page 233 (ISBN 978-0-2415-1698-0).
“I had opportunity of learning the Qu'ran and other Islamic knowledge when I was very young.”
Sa'adiya Omar Bello wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Ultimately,” he adds, “if we are to maximize human potential, having a safe, welcoming environment is absolutely vital for knowledge generation and for learning. I’m certainly committed to making sure that the Swanson School and the University of Pittsburgh are the best places for individuals to come and do their best work”
Elayne Arrington (born 1940) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I’d say definitely yes. There, there are quite a few experiences that I would say shaped me first and foremost. I would say my family because within my family, we had so many different experiences and so many opportunities for informal learning that just deposited all kinds of skills and knowledge within me that I didn’t even know I would need later on in life.”
Donna Auguste (born 1958) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“One area that excites me is neuro-symbolic AI, which combines data-driven machine learning with traditional AI methods that encode pre-defined knowledge as symbolic rules.”
Karen Myers (born 1963) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“This is a new industry for Botswana. We are still shaping policy, we are still building knowledge and we are still learning from countries that have walked this path before. Much work lies ahead. We must refine our licensing frameworks, we must expand our research and extension services and we need to invest in processing facilities and develop fair markets that ensure global participation.”
Edwin Dikoloti first seen 2025 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Hemp boom ahead, The Voive( 20 August 2025)
“Sharing insights, trends, and educational content helps democratize knowledge and foster a community of continuous learning. It’s incredible.”
Abisiga Mojeed Damilola wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I equally commend the NDDC for consenting to embark on this project as I have made available already laptops for some constituents to ease the learning process and expand the knowledge base of the people.”
“Secondly, I was also keen to engage with a diverse audience from different backgrounds and orientations. I believe that learning is a continuous process, and we can always benefit from exchanging views and knowledge with people in different contexts. By interacting with individuals from diverse environments, I hoped to unlearn and relearn new perspectives.”
Job Amupanda (born 1987) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I want to continue learning from them and expand my knowledge of rugby.”
Jesse Kriel (born 1994) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He said ‘O friends, God has given me inspiration Oftentimes strong counsel is suggested to the weak. The wit taught by God to the bee Is withheld from the lion and the wild ass. It fills its cells with liquid sweets, For God opens the door of this knowledge to it. The skill taught by God to the silkworm Is a learning beyond the reach of the elephant.”
Rumi (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We are not here to learn to play, we are here to play to learn.”
Guy Finley (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We all learn by imitating, as children, as students, as novices in the world of business. And then we grow up and learn to blend our innate abilities with the rules or principles we have learned.”
Akio Morita (1921–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Our great-grand-children, when they learn how we began this war by snatching glory out of defeat, and then swept on to victory, may also learn how the little holiday steamers made an excursion to hell and came back glorious.”
J. B. Priestley (1894–1984) first seen 1940 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Postscript to the News", broadcast on BBC Radio (5 June 1940); published in The Listener (13 June 1940).
“O be very sure That no man will learn anything at all, Unless he first will learn humility.”
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton (1831–1891) first seen 1525 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Vol. ii, Book viii: From 1525 to 1789, "Vanini", p. 220.
“If you’re twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel – as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to. Find out how other people live and eat and cook. Learn from them – wherever you go.”
Anthony Bourdain (1956–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I have no quarrel with what I learned in the Presbyterian church — I am still an enthusiastic Christian. But why shouldn't I try to learn more? Why shouldn't I go to Hindu services? Why shouldn't I go to Muslim services? If you are not egotistical, you will welcome the opportunity to learn more.”
John Templeton (1912–2008) said by 2008 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When men give lines, women learn to not trust men. When women wear makeup, men learn to not trust women. Male lines and female makeup are divorce training.”
Warren Farrell (born 1943) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Men learn to call pain “glory”; women learn to call the police.”
Warren Farrell (born 1943) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It takes a long time to learn to live — by the time you learn your time is gone.”
Paul Halmos (1916–2006) said by 2006 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I’ll admit, I was disappointed to learn that dragons didn’t exist. That’s a hard lesson for a boy to learn.” Chronicler smiled. “Honestly, I was a little disappointed myself. I went looking for a legend and found a lizard. A fascinating lizard, but a lizard just the same.”
Patrick Rothfuss (born 1973) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If there be only hours, at least learn what there is time to learn.”
Vernor Vinge (1944–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Where did you learn to do that so well? Where did you learn to do that so well? I guess that would be like kiss and tell. If it's a secret, why did you show me?”
Ben Harper (born 1969) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is nothing like losing all you have in the world for teaching you what not to do. And when you know what not to do in order not to lose money, you begin to learn what to do in order to win. Did you get that? You begin to learn!”
Edwin Lefèvre (1871–1943) said by 1943 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The people in Micronesia, they not like before. Before, everybody, man and woman, they learn about the culture and navigation. But now, nobody like learn, because they use the GPS and the motorboat. But what you going to do when the GPS broke, or the engine broke? You just gonna follow the wind and the current away, and maybe die in the ocean.”
Mau Piailug (1932–2010) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From Ferrar, Derek (March 2006). "Papa Mau's Legacy". Ka Wai Ola o OHA. 23 (3):13.
“A one-night-stander is someone who does not dare to explore the full potential of a relationship, just like a child who is afraid to go to the deep part of the pool. The latter does not want to learn how to swim, the former does not want to learn how to live.”
Carlos Gershenson (born 1978) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When you blame yourself, you learn from it. If you blame someone else, you don't learn nothing, cause hey, it's not your fault, it's his fault, over there.”
Joe Strummer (1952–2002) first seen 2001 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview with Judy McGuire for Punk Magazine (2001).
“We have been reflecting on the journey we have taken since the foundation of FIAT back in 1899 because, though we are proud of our past achievements, we are most interested in what we can learn from them, and also what we can learn from our mistakes.”
John Elkann (born 1976) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to Shareholders", EXOR, 08-05-2020
“We have to learn to think in a new way. We have to learn to ask ourselves, not what steps can be taken to give military victory to whatever group we prefer, for there no longer are such steps; the question we have to ask ourselves is: what steps can be taken to prevent a military contest of which the issue must be disastrous to all parties?”
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) said by 1970 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For the things we have to learn before we can do, we learn by doing.”
Aristotle (384–322 BC) said by 322 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Book II, 1103a.33: Cited in: Oxford Dictionary of Scientific Quotations (2005), 21:9
“The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.”
Will Rogers (1879–1935) first seen 1597 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Daily Telegram #1597, Will Rogers Finds Larnin' Spoils One For Real Work (4 September 1931)
“Go — take the mother's soul, and learn three truths: Learn What dwells in man, What is not given to man, and What men live by. When thou hast learnt these things, thou shalt return to heaven.”
Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) said by 1910 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It was subtle of God to learn Greek when he wished to become an author – and not to learn it better.”
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) said by 1900 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Mild paedophilia is bad. Violent paedophilia is worse. If you think that's an endorsement of mild paedophilia, go away and learn how to think. Date rape is bad. Stranger rape at knifepoint is worse. If you think that's an endorsement of date rape, go away and learn how to think.”
Richard Dawkins (born 1941) first seen 2014 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: (29 July 2014)
“The idea of any social obligation [...] just the idea of it embarasses my thoughts for a day, and sometimes it's since the day before that I worry, and don't sleep well, and the real affair, when it happens, is absolutely insignificant and justifies nothing; and the case repeats itself and I never learn to learn.”
Fernando Pessoa (1888–1935) said by 1935 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When one learns something one first performs an act of will, because only by willing to learn can one learn.”
Edward Said (1935–2003) first seen 1967 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Vico: Autodidact and Humanist," The Centennial Review, Vol. 11, No. 3 (Summer 1967), p. 340
“Before my father started using morphine again he sent me to a Japanese person to learn something called Karate. I learn these things fast because I am blank inside, and I have no special way of moving or doing things so one way is the same to me as another. ‘”
William S. Burroughs (1914–1997) said by 1997 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Remember, to learn and not to do is really not to learn. To know and not to do is really not to know.”
Stephen Covey (1932–2012) said by 2012 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He had never learned to live without delight. And he would have to learn to, just as, in a Prohibition country, he supposed he would have to learn to live without sherry. Theoretically he knew that life is possible, maybe even pleasant, without joy, without passionate griefs. But it had never occurred to him that he might have to live like that.”
Willa Cather (1873–1947) said by 1947 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It would take an hour-and-a-half to learn everything there is to learn about missiles. I think I know most of it anyway. You're talking about just getting updated on a situation”
Donald Trump (born 1946) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As far as my tax returns, you don't learn that much from tax returns. That I can tell you. You learn a lot from financial disclosure. And you should go down and take a look at that.”
Donald Trump (born 1946) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To learn about oneself, a living thing, you have to watch, learn anew each minute.”
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895–1986) first seen 1971 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 4th Public Talk, Bombay (Mumbai), India (17 February 1971)
“I’ll have to learn to snowshoe. I had my first lesson this morning and cut a ludicrous figure. I’ll be virtually a prisoner until I learn my way around. But any price is worth paying to get away from the thought-destroying din and soul-killing routine of the city!”
Fritz Leiber (1910–1992) first seen 1947 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Diary in the Snow” (p. 203); originally published in the first edition of Night's Black Agents (1947)