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“Openness and inclusiveness. We stand for harmonious coexistence and mutual learning between different countries, nations and cultures, dialogue between civilizations and seeking common ground while shelving differences. We are ready to establish partnership and develop win-win cooperation with other countries and international organizations that share our vision.”
Xi Jinping (born 1953) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When we are judging everything, we are learning nothing.”
Steve Maraboli (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I learnt not to be desperate in bad times, and I am learning not to be bullish when times are good.”
John Elkann (born 1976) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Dinasty calls", The Economist, 05-08-2008
“[I do not] carry such information in my mind since it is readily available in books. ...The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) first seen 1921 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In response to not knowing the speed of sound as included in the Edison Test: New York Times (18 May 1921); Einstein: His Life and Times (1947) Philipp Frank, p. 185; Einstein, A Life (1996) by Denis Brian, p. 129; "Ein…
“Philosophy, from the earliest times, has made greater claims, and achieved fewer results, than any other branch of learning.”
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) first seen 1960 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Lecture I, Current Tendencies, p. 11 (New American Library edition, 1960)
“[E]verybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) said by 1900 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A learning experience is one of those things that say, "You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.”
Douglas Adams (1952–2001) first seen 2000 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview in The Daily Nexus (5 April 2000), reprinted in The Salmon of Doubt
“I took a course in speed reading, learning to read straight down the middle of the page, and I was able to go through War and Peace in 20 minutes. It's about Russia.”
Woody Allen (born 1935) first seen 1967 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Attributed to Allen by Herb Caen in Reader's Digest, October 1967. For additional citations see this entry from Quote Investigator.
“By extensively studying all learning, and keeping himself under the restraint of the rules of propriety, one may thus likewise not err from what is right.”
Confucius (551–479 BC) said by 479 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Things have their root and their branches. Affairs have their end and their beginning. To know what is first and what is last will lead near to what is taught in the Great Learning.”
Confucius (551–479 BC) said by 479 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.”
Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) first seen 1873 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech in the House of Commons (11 March 1873)
“The book written against fame and learning has the author's name on the title-page.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) first seen 1857 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 1857
“'Tis very certain that each man carries in his eye the exact indication of his rank in the immense scale of men, and we are always learning to read it. A complete man should need no auxiliaries to his personal presence.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) said by 1882 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, and no force of character can make any stand against good wit.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) said by 1882 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is unwise to make education too cheap. If everything is provided freely, there is a tendency to put no value on anything. Education must always have a certain price on it; even as the very process of learning itself must always require individual effort and initiative.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890–1969) first seen 1957 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Address at the Centennial Celebration Banquet of the National Education Association (4 April 1957)
“Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.”
Bill Gates (born 1955) first seen 1999 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Business @ The Speed of Thought (1999)
“Stalin made mistakes. He made mistakes towards us, for example, in 1927. He made mistakes towards the Yugoslavs too. One cannot advance without mistakes... It is necessary to make mistakes. The party cannot be educated without learning from mistakes. This has great significance.”
Mao Zedong (1893–1976) first seen 1956 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Said to Enver Hoxha, on his visit to China in 1956, as quoted in Hoxha's (1986) The Artful Albanian, (Chatto & Windus, London),
“An aristocratic society may hold that a soldier or a man of learning is superior to a rich manufacturer or banker, but in a democratic society the latter are inevitably put higher, if only because their achievement is more readily comprehended by the inferior man, and he can more easily imagine himself, by some favour of God, duplicating it.”
H. L. Mencken (1880–1956) said by 1956 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When learning's triumph o'er her barb'rous foes First reared the stage, immortal Shakespeare rose; Each change of many-colored life he drew, Exhausted worlds, and then imagined new: Existence saw him spurn her bounded reign, And panting Time toiled after him in vain.”
Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) said by 1784 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause a while from learning to be wise. There mark what ills the scholar's life assail — Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail.”
Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) said by 1784 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I think of the company advertising "Thought Processors" or the college pretending that learning BASIC suffices or at least helps, whereas the teaching of BASIC should be rated as a criminal offence: it mutilates the mind beyond recovery.”
Edsger W. Dijkstra (1930–2002) first seen 1984 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Dijkstra (1984) Source: The threats to computing science (EWD898).
“I started life so self-judgmental. I call the voice in my head the ‘obnoxious roommate’; always putting me down, telling me I’m not good enough. And learning to actually deal with that voice, with a sense of humor – maybe getting it to dance with you – in order to evict it from my head. Then we are much more present”
Arianna Huffington (born 1950) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Nature is entirely synergetic and because your problems of representing a society ignorant of such fundamentals are greatly increased you need to pay great attention to learning how to comprehend synergy and thereafter how to educate all of humanity in the shortest time how to comprehend and usefully cope with omni-synergetic universe”
Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983) said by 1983 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[S]ubject matters in general do not exist. There are no subject matters; no branches of learning—or, rather, of inquiry: there are only problems, and the urge to solve them.”
Karl Popper (1902–1994) said by 1994 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I... believe in the rationalist tradition of a commonwealth of learning, and in the urgent need to preserve this tradition.”
Karl Popper (1902–1994) said by 1994 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I disbelieve in specialization and... experts. ...[P]aying too much respect to the specialist ...[is] destroying the commonwealth of learning, the rationalist tradition, and science ...”
Karl Popper (1902–1994) said by 1994 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[R]arely is the question asked: Are... is our children learning?”
George W. Bush (born 1946) first seen 2000 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Campaign speech, Florence, South Carolina, (January 11, 2000) Video:
“If anyone doubts this, let them look to Afghanistan, where the Islamic 'street' greeted the fall of tyranny with song and celebration. Let the skeptics look to Islam's own rich history, with its centuries of learning, and tolerance and progress. America will lead by defending liberty and justice because they are right and true and unchanging for all people everywhere.”
George W. Bush (born 1946) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I want to thank you for letting me share this special day with you. I wish you all the very best. Stay in touch with your friends. Love your family. Treat this day as a step toward a lifetime of learning. And go forth with confidence. May God bless you.”
George W. Bush (born 1946) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We need a renewed emphasis on civic learning in schools. And our young people need positive role models. Bullying and prejudice in our public life sets a national tone, provides permission for cruelty and bigotry, and compromises the moral education of children. The only way to pass along civic values is to first live up to them.”
George W. Bush (born 1946) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“People don't stop things they enjoy doing just because they reach a certain age. They don't stop playing tennis just because they turn 40, they don't stop with sex just because they turn 40; they keep it up as long as they can if they enjoy it, and learning will be the same thing.”
Isaac Asimov (1920–1992) said by 1992 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And just as Charlie had surmised, Dodger hadn’t had a day’s proper schooling. Instead, his life had mostly been spent learning things, which is surprisingly rather different, and he could read a face much better than a newspaper.”
Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) said by 2015 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Half of wisdom is learning what to unlearn.”
Larry Niven (born 1938) first seen 1996 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Ringworld Throne (1996)
“My door was never locked, Until one day a trigger come cocking. (But now I've started learning how,) I keep it shut.”
“Without the pain there'd be no learning Without the hurting we'd never change.”
“Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.”
Edmund Burke (1729–1797) said by 1797 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“my advice to all young people who wish to become poets is: do something easy, like learning how to blow up the world — unless you're not only willing, but glad, to feel and work and fight till you die. Does this sound dismal? It isn't. It's the most wonderful life on earth. Or so I feel.”
E. E. Cummings (1894–1962) said by 1962 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A little Learning is a dang'rous Thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring: There shallow Draughts intoxicate the Brain, And drinking largely sobers us again.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) first seen 1709 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: An Essay on Criticism" (1709)
“Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies, And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) first seen 1704 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Wife of Bath her Prologue, from Chaucer" (c. 1704, published 1713), line 369
“The scholar and the world! The endless strife, The discord in the harmonies of life! The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books; The market-place, the eager love of gain, Whose aim is vanity, and whose end is pain!”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) said by 1882 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“With just enough of learning to misquote.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[Armenian] is a rich language, however, and would amply repay any one the trouble of learning it.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) first seen 1816 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: To Mr. Moore", From the Letters of Lord Byron, 5 December 1816, p. 12.
“For life, with all it yields of joy and woe, And hope and fear (believe the aged friend), Is just our chance o' the prize of learning love,— How love might be, hath been indeed, and is.”
Robert Browning (1812–1889) said by 1889 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Gie me ae spark o' Nature's fire, That's a' the learning I desire.”
Robert Burns (1759–1796) first seen 1786 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: First Epistle to J. Lapraik, st. 13 (1786)
“What's a' your jargon o' your schools, Your Latin names for horns and stools? If honest Nature made you fools What sairs your grammars? Ye'd better taen up spades and shools Or knappin hammers. Gie' me ae spark o' Nature's fire! That's a' the learning I desire: Then, tho' I drudge thro' dub and mire At plough or cart, My muse, though homely in attire, May touch the heart.”
Robert Burns (1759–1796) said by 1796 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in The Athenæum, no. 756 (23 April 1842) p. 361, col. 2. Last two lines quoted as epigraph in Eliza Cook, Poems, new ed. (London: Routledge, Warne, & Routledge, 1860) front matter
“The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents.”
John Milton (1608–1674) said by 1674 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Inflamed with the study of learning and the admiration of virtue; stirred up with high hopes of living to be brave men and worthy patriots, dear to God, and famous to all ages.”
John Milton (1608–1674) said by 1674 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning; Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genus a better discerning.”
Oliver Goldsmith (1728–1774) said by 1774 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote.”
Edward Young (1683–1765) said by 1765 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Much learning shows how little mortals know; Much wealth, how little worldlings can enjoy.”
Edward Young (1683–1765) said by 1765 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source