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“Finally, ask for help. I learned early in my academic journey not to be afraid to ask for help. It doesn't matter how you learn whether it be a concept or skill, what matters is that you learn even if it takes many tries.”
Temiloluwa Prioleau wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“By making mistakes we learn, or others learn. Saying goodbye to truth is not only a gift without return to ‘Power’, but above all the revocation of the only ‘chance’ of emancipation given to humanity, realism, against illusion and enchantment. (p. 112)”
Maurizio Ferraris (born 1956) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The best way to handle doubt is to try out those things you are scared of by starting small. When you try and see the result, it fuels your conviction, you learn, and it helps you improve. Adversity is a faith and muscle builder; it makes you stronger and forces you out of your comfort zone. So, I welcome it with an open mind and see it as an opportunity to learn and create value.”
Tope Omotolani wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You have to learn to be strong enough that even in an environment you can’t control, you remain patient. And whatever you learn here at Bahay Pag-asa, hopefully, you can apply it when you leave.”
Aminah Dimaporo wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[When asked what a dyslexic person lacks] Automatism. When you learn to drive, you have to think carefully about pulling the clutch, engaging the gear, and starting the car. These are all things that you gradually learn to do in the right order, but once you've done it five, six, seven, a thousand times, it becomes automatic. That automaticity that people with dyslexia lack.”
Andrea Delogu (born 1982) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I loved singing but I just didn’t think I was being challenged enough. I like to be out of my depth — that’s when I learn the most. There was nothing in musicals at the time where I thought I could learn.”
Jessie Buckley (born 1989) first seen 2015 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Jessie Buckley, interview: the BBC's War and Peace star on Andrew Lloyd Webber, Dame Judi Dench and competitive karaoke battles", Evening Standard, 16 December 2015
“From just being alive! Inspiration lives in the air. But you have to experience to harness and understand its true potential. people learn from experiences. I learn from my pain.”
Jesse Jagz (born 1984) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Let’s continue to push. We must live for each other, learn to extend hands of fellowship to people. That is the truth. We cannot continue to do winner-takes-it-all. We need to bring people in and learn how to work with the people.”
Umo Eno (born 1964) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am self driven, with interpersonal communication skills, which makes it easy to relate with people. I possess the zeal and eagerness to learn new things which has aided my abilities to learn fast and efficiently.”
Precious Okoye (born 1995) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: My Dream Is to Be of Service to Mankind – Precious Okoye", Tribune Online, December 2022
“So, they must learn it early, especially since if you give up early, in your younger years, it is most unlikely that you will succeed as an adult or even learn resilience then. Besides, such a lesson becomes even more imperative to impart at an early stage in a society like ours with the wide range of vicissitudes, from economic to social to physical, that one has to contend with.”
Olubunmi Familoni wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I have learnt a lot of important lessons but still have so much to learn about music and how to go about doing this thing as a career. One of the best things that music gave me was a larger perspective on life, it allowed me to get out of my little home suburb and learn more about the world.”
Matthew Mole (born 1991) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I got a lot of people asking me when I would bring the concert to Ghana. The concert will be just like what you see me do in Europe and other countries. We learn as we go along, spiritually we pray more and physically we learn more.”
Diana Hamilton (musician) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We’ll only learn lessons from the past. Even in general life, we learn from the past and we move past”
Mabhuti Khenyeza (born 1982) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You learn to think fast, rhyme fast, make sense of things – you learn to change the situation. I started applying that so when I get called to feature on a song and studio time is limited, my writing is a little faster.”
Reason (South African rapper) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You know, they learn as much from me as I learn from them, let's start there.”
Kamohelo Mokotjo (born 1991) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I've watched coaches, I've watched games and I learn; we all learn every day. The thing now is, the opponent's determines how you set up your team. So there will be a different approach against Egypt, different approach against Sudan, different approach against Guinea Bissau as well.”
Augustine Eguavoen (born 1965) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If you add up the little things – a few extra runs with the bat, and executing a little bit better with the ball – we could have pulled it over the line. But that’s what this tour is about – we’re here to learn and here to learn on our feet.”
Ruhan Pretorius (born 1991) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Surround yourself with people and be involved in projects that allow you to learn something new. For example, almost all my friends have nothing to do with the entertainment industry; they’re lawyers, doctors, teachers, but thanks to them, I’m constantly encouraged to learn new things and have new experiences.”
Amii Stewart (born 1956) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Experience is a brutal teacher, but you learn. My God, do you learn.”
C. S. Lewis (misattributed) first seen 1993 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Written for the 1993 film Shadowlands by William Nicholson and spoken by Anthony Hopkins, who played Lewis.
“You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.”
Anatole France (misattributed) first seen 1896 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Francis de Sales, quoted in Vie de saint François de Sales, évèque et prince de Genève by André Jean Marie Hamon (Librairie Victor Lecoffre, Paris, 1896), Vol. II, Book VII, Ch. V: Son amour pour Dieu
“The essential difference between a good and a bad education is this, that the former draws on the child to learn by making it sweet to him, the latter drives the child to learn, by making it sour to him if he does not.”
Charles Buxton (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The first thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history.”
Desmond Tutu (misattributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Tsze-Kung asked Confucius, saying, "Master, are you a sage?" Confucius answered him: "A sage is what I cannot rise to. I learn without satiety, and teach without being tired." Tsze-Kung said: "You learn without satiety: that shows your wisdom. You teach without being tired: that shows your benevolence. Benevolent and wise:— Master, you a sage.”
Mencius (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You can only learn so much by reading. You cannot learn to ride a bicycle by reading a book.”
Robert Kiyosaki (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For only by knowledge of that which is not Thyself shall thyself be learn'd.”
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton (1831–1891) first seen 1867 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Γνωθι Σεαυτον" ("Know Thyself"), in The Poetical Works of Owen Meredith, Vol. I (1867), p. 247.
“You will not be, you cannot be, satisfied with anything less than Self-knowledge. You, as feeling-and-desire, are the responsible doer of your Triune Self; from what you have made for yourself as your destiny you must learn two great lessons which all experiences of life are to teach. These lessons are:”
Harold W. Percival (1868–1953) said by 1953 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Demonstrative reasoning penetrates the sciences just as far as mathematics does, but it is in itself (as mathematics is in itself) incapable of yielding essentially new knowledge about the world around us. Anything new that we learn about the world involves plausible reasoning, which is the only kind of reasoning for which we care in everyday affairs.”
George Pólya (1887–1985) said by 1985 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My mind has touched the farthest horizons of mortal imagination and reaches ever outward to embrace infinity. There is no knowledge beyond my comprehension, no art or skill upon this entire planet that lies beyond the mastery of my hand. And yet, like Faust, I look in vain, I learn in vain... For as long as I love, no woman will ever look on me in love.”
Susan Kay (born 1952) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The fact is that those who are enslaved to their sects are not merely devoid of all sound knowledge, but they will not even stop to learn!”
Galen (129–300) said by 300 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Galen, On the Natural Faculties, Bk. 1, sect. 13; cited from Arthur John Brock (trans.) On the Natural Faculties (London: Heinemann, 1963) p. 57.
“All that we can learn by science of the... processes... of the living body has been learned in those deep foundations of knowledge appertaining to the simplest state... wherein phenomena and events are unobscured by... life.”
Frederick Soddy (1877–1956) said by 1956 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It has been said that to appreciate what virtue and morals mean, men must live virtuous and moral lives. It is equally true, that a knowledge of the objects of science is not to be attained by any scheme of definitions, however carefully contrived. He who would know what geometry is, must venture boldly into its depths and learn to think and feel as a geometer.”
James Joseph Sylvester (1814–1897) said by 1897 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: J. J. Sylvester. "A Probationary Lecture on Geometry", Collected Mathematical Papers, Vol. 2 (1908), p. 9
“He who leaves school, knowing little, but with a longing for knowledge, will go farther than one who quits, knowing many things, but not caring to learn more.”
John Lancaster Spalding (1840–1916) said by 1916 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What is wonderful about a university like LSE is that you not only receive teaching of very high quality, you also learn where to find the knowledge you are seeking. And you make unexpected discoveries; it was a Marxist professor who introduced me to the work of Cardinal Newman, a great master of English prose as well as theology.”
Pierre Trudeau (1919–2000) first seen 1919 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Part 1, 1919 - 1968 The Road to 24 Sussex Drive, p. 46
“In art, never try to find out anything, or try to learn anything until the not knowing it has come to be a nuisance to you for some time. Then you will remember it, but not otherwise. Let knowledge importune you before you will hear it. Our schools and universities go on the precisely opposite system.”
Samuel Butler (novelist) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Th’ illiterate writer, empiric-like, applies To minds diseased unsafe chance remedies: The learn’d in schools, where knowledge first began, Studies with care th’ anatomy of man; Sees virtue, vice, and passions in their cause, And fame from science, not from fortune, draws.”
John Dryden (1631–1700) said by 1700 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We have a large reservoir of engineers (and scientists) with a vast background of engineering know how. They need to learn statistical methods that can tap into the knowledge. Statistics used as a catalyst to engineering creation will, I believe, always result in the fastest and most economical progress…”
George E. P. Box (1919–2013) first seen 1992 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Statement of 1992, quoted in Introduction to Statistical Experimental Design — What is it? Why and Where is it Useful? (2002) Johan Trygg & Svante Wold
“The secret of sound education is to get each pupil to learn for himself, instead of instructing him by driving knowledge into him on a stereotyped system.”
Robert Baden-Powell (1857–1941) first seen 1912 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Scouter (January, 1912)
“To gain knowledge, we must learn to ask the right questions; and to get answers, we must act, not wait for answers to occur to us.”
Anatol Rapoport (1911–2007) first seen 1969 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Anatol Rapoport, "Modern Systems Theory – An Outlook for Coping with Change", paper given in the 1970 John Umstead Distinguished Lectures at North Carolina Department of Mental Health, Research Division, on 5 February 1…
“The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn When teachers themselves are taught to learn.”
Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956) said by 1956 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Knowledge can be acquired by a suitable and complete study, no matter what the starting point is. Only one must know how to "learn." What is nearest to us is man; and you are the nearest of all men to yourself. Begin with the study of yourself; remember the saying "Know thyself.”
G. I. Gurdjieff (1866–1949) said by 1949 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You must acquire the best knowledge first, and without delay; it is the height of madness to learn what you will later have to unlearn.”
Erasmus (1466–1536) first seen 1497 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to Christian Northoff (1497), as translated in Collected Works of Erasmus (1974), p. 114
“No society has ever yet been able to handle the temptations of technology to mastery, to waste, to exuberance, to exploration and exploitation. We have to learn to cherish this earth and cherish it as something that's fragile, that's only one, it's all we have. We have to use our scientific knowledge to correct the dangers that have come from science and technology.”
Margaret Mead (1901–1978) said by 1978 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Radio excerpt presented by Voice of America (17 January 2010)
“Books are the windows through which the soul looks out. A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them. It is a wrong to his family. He cheats them! Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it.”
Horace Mann (1796–1859) said by 1859 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The totem pole, for example, is a remnant from an era where there was much greater communication between man and the animals -- when, in fact, men went to the animals to learn, and from them first acquired knowledge of herbs and corrective medicinal behavior.”
Jane Roberts (1929–1984) said by 1984 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Seek Knowledge and adorn it with forbearance and dignity. Be humble to those whom you teach and to those from whom you learn. Don't be tyrannical in your teaching conduct, for you will forfeit that to which you are entitled to (the reward) on account of it.”
Ja'far al-Sadiq (699–765) said by 765 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Learn knowledge and science from him who teaches it, even if he doesn't practice what he preaches.”
Muhammad al-Baqir (677–733) said by 733 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Kull was still mazed. "But being a wizard, having knowledge of all the ages and despising gold, glory, and position, what could Kaanuub offer Tuzun Thune that would make of him a foul traitor?" "Gold, power, and position," grunted Brule. "The sooner you learn that men are men whether wizard, king, or thrall, the better you will rule, Kull.”
Robert E. Howard (1906–1936) said by 1936 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We do not know nearly as much as we should about how children learn language, but if there is one thing we can say with assurance it is that knowledge of grammatical nomenclature and skill in sentence-parsing have no bearing whatsoever on the process.”
Neil Postman (1931–2003) said by 2003 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The question, "How well does one read?" is a bad question...essentially unanswerable. A more proper question is "How well does one read poetry, or history, or science, or religion?" No one I have ever known is so brilliant as to have learned the languages of all fields of knowledge equally well. Most of us do not learn some of them at all.”
Neil Postman (1931–2003) said by 2003 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The spirit of the Knowledge Society is the spirit of Pluralism—a readiness to accept the Other, indeed to learn from him, to see difference as an opportunity rather than a threat.”
Aga Khan IV (1936–2025) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Address by His Highness the Aga Khan to the 2006 Convocation of the Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan (2 December 2006)]