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“Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.”
Robert J. Sawyer (born 1960) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A Little Learning misleadeth, and a great deal often stupifieth the Understanding.”
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax (1633–1695) said by 1695 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He that knew all that ever Learning writ, Knew only this - that he knew nothing yet.”
Aphra Behn (1640–1689) said by 1689 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It's as if Brian de Palma were saying, "What is getting older if it isn't learning more ways that you're vulnerable?”
Pauline Kael (1919–2001) said by 2001 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Shall we be destined to the days of eternity, on holy-days, as well as working-days, to be showing the relics of learning, as monks do the relics of their saints — without working one — one single miracle with them?”
Laurence Sterne (1713–1768) first seen 1761 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Book V (1761-1762), Ch. 1.
“Hebetude. It is a graph of a theme that flings The dancer kneeling on nothing into the wings, And Nijinsky hadn't the words to make the laws For learning to loiter in air; he merely said, "I merely leap and pause.”
Richard Wilbur (1921–2017) first seen 1963 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Grace" in The Poems of Richard Wilbur (1963)
“A victim of God may, Through learning adaption, Become a partner of God, A victim of God may, Through forethought and planning, Become a shaper of God. Or a victim of God may, Through shortsightedness and fear, Remain God’s victim, God’s plaything, God’s prey.”
Octavia Butler (1947–2006) said by 2006 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I cannot see why it is necessary that every deduction from algebra should be bound to certain conventions incident to an earlier stage of mathematical learning, even supposing them to have been consistently used up to the point in question. I should not care if any one thought this treatise unalgebraical, but should only ask whether the premises were admissible and the conclusions logical.”
Augustus De Morgan (1806–1871) said by 1871 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The delight and joy of curiosity and learning can temper our fear of doing something completely new.”
Jonathan Ive (born 1967) first seen 2021 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: (10 May 2021)
“I have to be true to that - I can't take certain things away. I do have a political background. I’m only in England, learning this language and building a life in this society, because of political reasons. Why would I deny that?”
“Wisdom,” growled the Agirul. “Painful, isn’t it? We assume so much and resist learning to the contrary.”
Sheri S. Tepper (1929–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Learning more was merely ordinary to me, but traveling—that was a wonderful treat. At least so I thought until we had done some of it. Then it turned out that traveling was doing everything one had to do at home with none of the conveniences for doing it.”
Sheri S. Tepper (1929–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Every Hindu may not be conscious of the finer points of his faith, but he has been raised in the tradition of its assumptions and doctrines, even when these have not been explained to him. His Hinduism may be a Hinduism of habit rather than a Hinduism of learning, but it is a lived Hinduism for all that.”
Shashi Tharoor (born 1956) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Why I Am a Hindu (2018), p. 59.
“Michael K sat ... watching his mother polish other people's floors, learning to be quiet.”
J. M. Coetzee (born 1940) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Old age is like learning a new profession. And not one of your own choosing.”
Jacques Barzun (1907–2012) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in Arthur Krystal, "Age of Reason", The New Yorker (October 22, 2007), p. 103
“In my ideal world, no child would suffer. Charitable instincts would prevail. There would be global acceptance of all different types of people." —Learning To Sing, Page 240”
Clay Aiken (born 1978) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Of all things to be learned, in school or out, languaging, as I prefer to call the process, is least like a mechanical skill. It is, in fact, the most intimate, integrated, emotion-laden learning we do. At no point can we separate what we know and what we are from how our linguistic powers develop...”
Neil Postman (1931–2003) said by 2003 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As one learns the language of a subject, one is also learning what the subject is...[W]hat we call a subject consists mostly, if not entirely, of its language. If you eliminate all the words of a subject, you have eliminated the subject.”
Neil Postman (1931–2003) said by 2003 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You’re still learning the difference between being an agitator and being a politician. Listen to me, Flora.” He sounded very earnest. “Compromise is not a dirty word.” “Maybe it should be,” she answered.”
Harry Turtledove (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He hated parliamentary procedure, but he’d started learning it anyhow, even if he did think it was only a way to cheat by the numbers.”
Harry Turtledove (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Everyone marched everywhere at Fort Custer. Armstrong had begun to think Thou shalt march' was in the Bible somewhere right below Thou shalt not kill and Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord in vain—two commandments he was learning more about violating every day.”
Harry Turtledove (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A Critical Estimate of Luther's Version. Luther's version of the Bible is a wonderful monument of genius, learning, and piety, and may be regarded in a secondary sense as inspired. It was, from beginning to end, a labor of love and enthusiasm. While publishers and printers made fortunes, Luther never received or asked a copper for this greatest work of his life.”
Philip Schaff (1819–1893) said by 1893 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I thought, I am feeble in faith because Allah is full of misogyny. He is arbitrary and incoherent. Faith in him demands that I relinquish my responsibility, become a member of a herd. He denies me pleasure, the adventure of learning, friendships. I am feeble in faith, mother, because faith in Allah has reduced you to a terrified old woman—because I don’t want to be like you.”
Ayaan Hirsi Ali (born 1969) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is not only the prohibition against criticizing the Quran and the Prophet that closes the Muslim mind, and not only the life-long socialization of learning by rote. It is also the continuous construction of conspiracy theories about enemies of Islam who are determined to destroy the one, true religion. The chief enemy is the Jew.”
Ayaan Hirsi Ali (born 1969) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I believe in the ability of focusing strongly in something, then you are able to extract even more out of it. It's been like this all my life, and it's been only a question of improving it, and learning more and more and there is almost no end. As you go through you just keep finding more and more. It's very interesting, it's fascinating.”
Ayrton Senna (1960–1994) first seen 1991 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview for Racing is in My Blood, 1991
“The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.”
Mortimer Adler (1902–2001) first seen 1979 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in The Leisure alternatives catalog: food for mind & body (1979) edited by Joseph Allen ,p. 134
“Great books are great teachers; they are showing us every day what ordinary people are capable of. These books come out of ignorant, inquiring humanity. They are usually the first announcements for success in learning. Most of them were written for, and addressed to, ordinary people.”
Robert Maynard Hutchins (1899–1977) said by 1977 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The only organization capable of unprejudiced growth, or unguided learning, is a network.”
Kevin Kelly (editor) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We don't have a word for learning and teaching at the same time, but our schooling would improve if we did.”
Kevin Kelly (editor) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A company cannot be a learning company without also being a teaching company.”
Kevin Kelly (editor) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We cannot import evolution and learning without exporting control.”
Kevin Kelly (editor) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What sometimes enrages me and always disappoints and grieves me is the preference of great schools of learning for the derivative as opposed to the original, for the conventional and thin which can be duplicated in many copies rather than the new and powerful, and for arid correctness and limitation of scope and method rather than for universal newness and beauty, wherever it may be seen.”
Norbert Wiener (1894–1964) said by 1964 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Nobody really wants to spend life with someone who has no other choice, and children who have been raised by a mother who gave up her life for them almost always spend years on an analyst's couch learning to spit in her eye.”
Merle Shain (1935–1989) said by 1989 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For centuries the so called goddess of education was against the dalit learning, reading and writing in any language. She was the goddess of education of only the high castes — mainly of the brahmins and baniayas.”
Kancha Ilaiah (born 1952) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Dalits and English" in Tehelka (15 February 2011).
“Better information awareness does not mean less personal freedoms. Feeling safe in school is a prerequisite for a conducive learning environment. Everyone should be free to express their opinions, voice their concerns, and become better informed.”
Newton Lee wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“With quantum computing, scientists are learning how to better formulate questions, lest we end up with a perplexing answer like “42.”
Newton Lee wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“3162. Learning makes a good Man better, and an ill Man worse.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is a saying among art educators that a person just starting out in color will mix ten gallons of mud before learning how to make beautiful color.”
Betty Edwards (born 1926) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The chief aim of education is to show you, after you make a livelihood, how to enjoy living; and you can live longest and best and most rewardingly by attaining and preserving the happiness of learning.”
Gilbert Highet (1906–1978) first seen 1976 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Immortal Profession: The Joys of Teaching and Learning (1976) quoted in Audio Visual Communication Review, Volume 25; Turkish Nomad: The Intellectual Journey of Talat S Halman; The Academic Reviewer, Issue 1, by the…
“If you're funny enough, you can make people forget a lot of things, whether it's common-sense internet safeguards, lessons from previous relationships, or that they've been accidentally learning about financial fraud and human trafficking for the last twenty minutes. We're having fun, aren't we?”
John Oliver (born 1977) first seen 2024 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Last Week Tonight -- "Pig Butchering Scams" (ff. 0:19:00) (25 February 2024)
“No science of any kind can be divorced from ethical considerations... Science is a human learning process which arises in certain subcultures in human society and not in others, and a subculture as we seen is a group of people defined by acceptance of certain common values, that is, an ethic which permits extensive communication between them.”
Kenneth Boulding (1910–1993) said by 1993 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: p. 2 cited in: John B. Davis (2011) Kenneth Boulding as a Moral Scientist Working paper
“You have to stay open and curious and keep learning as you go. Poems come from a whole variety of sources. When you're younger, you believe in inspiration. As you get older, you believe most in receptivity and work.”
Marge Piercy (born 1936) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And you, beloved children, whose lost it is to promote learning under the magisterium of the Church, continue as you are doing to love and tend the noble poet whom We do not hesitate to call the most eloquent singer of the Christian idea.”
Pope Benedict XV (1854–1922) first seen 1921 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In Praeclara Summorum (1921-04-30)
“Whatever happens in the country, whatever warfare harasses our land, we will never relinquish our hold on Western learning. As long as this school of ours stands, Japan remains a civilized nation of the world.”
Fukuzawa Yukichi (1835–1901) said by 1901 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When I was writing The Shadow of the Glen I got more aid than any learning could have given me from a chink in the floor of the old Wicklow house where I was staying, that let me hear what was being said by the servant girls in the kitchen.”
John Millington Synge (1871–1909) said by 1909 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The issue, rather, is this: Are we prepared to embrace the undeniably vast potential of genetics to improve the human condition, individually and collectively? Most immediate, would we want the guidance of genetic information to design learning best suited to our children’s individual needs?”
James D. Watson (1928–2025) said by 2025 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Well, it all sounds most unpleasant,” Droffo said. He shook his head. “You hear all sorts of ridiculous stories; the workers are full of them. Too much drink, too little learning.” “No, more than that, sir,” Neguste told him. “These are facts.” “I think I might dispute that,” Droffo said. “All the same, sir, facts is facts. That itself’s a fact.”
Iain Banks (1954–2013) said by 2013 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I'm learning to play piano. And also the musical saw.”
Rachel Trachtenburg (born 1993) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“*On learning to play new instruments (Teen Vogue)”
Rachel Trachtenburg (born 1993) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Once Europe existed in a Dark Age and Islam carried the torch of learning. Now we Muslims live in a Dark age.”
Mahmud Tarzi (1865–1933) said by 1933 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source