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“People here cannot conceive of worlds where dæmons are a silent voice in the mind and no more. Can you imagine my astonishment, in turn, at learning that part of my own nature was female, and bird-formed, and beautiful?”
Philip Pullman (born 1946) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Formulae are the anaesthetics of thought, not its stimulants and to make any one think is far better worth while than cramming him with ill-considered, and therefore indigestible, learning.”
Percival Lowell (1855–1916) said by 1916 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The world and its peoples being as they are, there is no easy or quick or infallible approach to a secure peace. It is only by patient, persistent, undismayed effort, by trial and error, that peace can be won. Nor can it be won cheaply, as the taxpayer is learning.”
Ralph Bunche (1904–1971) said by 1971 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As many universities plan for online or hybrid learning this fall, this needlessly punitive proposal puts international students at risk of illness or deportation if they continue their education in the United States.”
John Lewis (1940–2020) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Twitter, (10 July 2020)
“Some on commission, some for the love of learning, Some because they have nothing better to do Or because they hope these walls of books will deaden The drumming of the demon in their ears.”
Louis MacNeice (1907–1963) first seen 1939 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The British Museum Reading Room", l. 4 (July 1939)
“Dear William Shakespeare. I am a 14 year old and I’m queer like you. I’m learning art. I wanted to be a queer artist like Leonardo or Michaelangelo. But I like Francis Bacon best I read Alan Ginsberg, Rimbaud. I like Tchaikovsky, if I make films I will make them like Eisenstein, Murnau, Pasolini, Visconti. Love from Derek.”
Derek Jarman (1942–1994) first seen 1992 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to the Minister (1992).
“I spent my life learning to feel less. Every day I felt less. Is that growing old? Or is it something worse? You can not protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.”
Jonathan Safran Foer (born 1977) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Doing what you do well is death. Your duty is to keep trying to do things that you don't do well, in the hope of learning.”
John Banville (born 1945) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Crowd screaming chanting ALI! ALI! Legends die hard and Ali is learning that even he can not be forever young.”
Howard Cosell (1918–1995) first seen 1980 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: October 2, 1980 during the 9th round of the ill-fated Muhammad Ali-Larry Holmes World heavyweight championship.
“Book-learning scarcely tells me Of severe afflictions after death-bed; And such as have heard my bardic books They shall obtain the region of heaven, the best of all abodes.”
Taliesin (518–599) said by 599 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It has been an incredible pleasure to be part of fighting the good fight on the right side. That is about respecting people. Can we move beyond "tolerate" and start embracing, loving, and accepting, and learning from, and being challenged by? That's how you build a resilient society. That's what we're trying to do in Canada. And we've got a lot of work still to do.”
Justin Trudeau (born 1971) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Trudeau promotes the cause of compassion for others and openness to diversity during a period of heightened concern for the well-being of LGBT communities, in a cameo appearance on Canada's Drag Race: Canada vs. The Wor…
“I'm very self-destructive. I take it way too far most of the time. I'm the type of person who likes to jump into things hard. I do know my limits and I'm continually learning more about myself, as far as being hungover the next day or saying things that I don't mean or ruining other people's good times.”
Bert McCracken (born 1982) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Mike Osegueda (March 29, 2005) "Appetizing chaos - The bands involved with the tour make sure they live up to the name", The Fresno Bee, p. B1.
“Indeed, the 1960s was a time of radical change. So much was happening — in science and technology, religion, politics, culture, and society as a whole — and at a fast pace. Imagine how my curiosity was piqued by everything going on around me. If there was ever a time that I developed a love for learning, an ability to focus on responsibility, and to deliver on my own goals, it was then.”
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“During the 50's, the Philippines had one of the highest standards of education in Asia. Many of our neighbors sent their sons and daughters to study at our institutions of learning.”
Francis Escudero (born 1969) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[I] Went to Germany to study there and graduated from the architecture faculty in Darmstadt in 1914. I studied art during my trips through Europe; went to Paris. In the summer of 1912 I traveled more than 1200 km in Italy on foot, learning and drawing. In 1912 my works were accepted for the first time at the large exhibition in Petersburg. From 1915 in I lived in Moscow, exhibiting each year.”
El Lissitsky (1890–1941) said by 1941 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is such a thing as looking through a person's eyes into the heart, and learning more of the height, and breadth, and depth of another's soul in one hour than it might take you a lifetime to discover, if he or she were not disposed to reveal it, or if you had not the sense to understand it.”
Anne Brontë (1820–1849) said by 1849 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Strategy making needs to function beyond the boxes to encourage the informal learning that produces new perspectives and new combinations... Once managers understand this, they can avoid other costly misadventures caused by applying formal techniques, without judgement and intuition, to problem solving.”
Henry Mintzberg (born 1939) first seen 1994 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Mintzberg (1994), (partly) cited in Douglas C. Eadie (1997) Changing by design: a practical approach to leading innovation in nonprofit organizations. p. 128
“Learning is not doing; it is reflecting on doing. T. S. Eliot writes in one of his poems, “We had the experience but missed the meaning.” Reflection is about getting the meaning.”
Henry Mintzberg (born 1939) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[T]o teach virtue we must educate the emotions, and this means learning "what to feel" in the various circumstances that prompt them.”
Roger Scruton (1944–2020) said by 2020 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I had centered myself, learning of the existence of an interior motion, a shift in the levels from isolation to solitude to wordlessness to immobility. When Opel occupied that center I became the thing that swirled.”
Don DeLillo (born 1936) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He'd once told me that the art of getting ahead in New York was based on learning how to express dissatisfaction in an interesting way. The air was full of rage and complaint. People had no tolerance for your particular hardship unless you knew how to entertain them with it.”
Don DeLillo (born 1936) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Relations of power, as I began to decipher them, have infused a great deal of my work over time—both poetry and prose. But poetry was where I could confront, perhaps transform, what I was experiencing and learning about the world.”
Adrienne Rich (1929–2012) said by 2012 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I've been sleeping through my life Now I'm waking up And I want to stand in the sunshine I have never been ecstatic Had a flower but it never bloomed In the darkness of my wasted youth It was hiding in the shadows Learning to become invisible Uncover me”
Juliana Hatfield (born 1967) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The first discipline modernity’s originators imposed upon themselves was that of self-restraint, learning to live with vulgarity. Their high expectations for effectiveness were made possible by low expectations of what was to be.”
Allan Bloom (1930–1992) said by 1992 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Philosophizing is a process of making sense out of experience, rather than adding to experience itself, as factual learning and experimental investigation do.”
Susanne Langer (1895–1985) said by 1985 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The most worthwhile form of education is the kind that puts the educator inside you, as it were, so that the appetite for learning persists long after the external pressure for grades and degrees has vanished. Otherwise you are not educated; you are merely trained.”
Sydney J. Harris (1917–1986) said by 1986 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“After this (first) initiation...He passes, at this initiation, out of the Hall of Learning into the Hall of Wisdom... A long period of many incarnations may elapse before the control of the astral body is perfected, and the initiate is ready for the next step. p. 84”
Alice Bailey (1880–1949) said by 1949 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Our predecessors, the Druids of Britain, tho' left in the extremest west to the improvement of their own thoughts, yet advanc'd their inquiries, under all disadvantages, to such heights, as should make our moderns asham'd, to wink in the sunshine of learning and religion.”
William Stukeley (1687–1765) first seen 1740 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Stonehenge: A Temple Restor'd to the British Druids, Preface. (1740).
“A healthy, creative, open, growing, learning society will spontaneously create and develop the types of individual that the society needs. It will make development to economic and social adjustments all the more easy and natural. It will allow those of us in the private sector as well as government and civil society to correspond with each other and meet the needs of society in a positive way.”
Talal Abu-Ghazaleh (born 1938) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: January 6, 2004, World Bank Video Series, Amman, Jordan.
“Human experience throughout the ages has been enhanced through learning, information and communication.”
Talal Abu-Ghazaleh (born 1938) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: January 6, 2004, World Bank Video Series, Amman, Jordan.
“There are many branches of learning, but only the one solid tree-trunk of wisdom.”
Henry S. Haskins (1875–1957) said by 1957 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I should have all manner of tenderness for the right of the College; they are nurseries of Religion and Learning, and therefore all donations for increase and augmentation of their revenue are to be liberally expounded.”
William Cowper, 1st Earl Cowper (1665–1723) first seen 1720 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Devit v. College of Dublin (1720). Gilbert Eq. Ca. 248; reported in James William Norton-Kyshe, The Dictionary of Legal Quotations (1904), p. 242.
“In missional churches, the baby birds have been pushed out of the nest and are learning to fly for themselves.”
Alan Hirsch (born 1959) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The art of politics is learning to walk with your back to the wall, your elbows high, and a smile on your face. It's a survival game played under the glare of lights.”
Jean Chrétien (born 1934) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Putting all of my time In learning to care And a bucket of rhymes I threw up somewhere Want a locket of who Made me lose my perfunctory view Of all that is around And of all that I do.”
Rufus Wainwright (born 1973) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is no god but God and Muhammad (aws) is God’s prophet and messenger; the purpose of life is to establish a loving relationship with The One through a hermeneutic engagement with God’s signs (ayat) in revelation, creation, and in the human mind and heart; such a purpose requires a wholehearted commitment to learning in all its forms…”
Yakoub Islam first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Muslim Anarchist Charter (20 June 2005)
“Learning to cherish others is the best solution to our daily problems, and it is the source of all our future happiness and good fortune.”
Kelsang Gyatso (1931–2022) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Modern Buddhism: The Path of Compassion and Wisdom (2011)
“Innovation - the heart of technological change - is fundamentally a learning process.”
Peter Dicken (born 1938) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The way of learning is none other than finding the lost mind.”
Mencius (372–289 BC) said by 289 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 6A:11, as translated by Wing-tsit Chan in A Source Book in Chinese Philosophy (1963), p. 58
“You have need of learning, children, in order that the whorl will someday have need of you.”
Gene Wolfe (1931–2019) said by 2019 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Every so often I get optimistic and explain the best method of learning to write for students. I don't believe any of them has ever tried it.”
Gene Wolfe (1931–2019) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Best of Gene Wolfe (2009), afterword to "The Boy Who Hooked the Sun", p. 381
“In every literate society, learning to read is something of an initiation, a ritualized passage out of a state of dependency and rudimentary communication.”
Alberto Manguel (born 1948) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The process of writing is a process of learning; and much has become clearer to me in the attempt to transform my original rough notes into what I hope is an intelligible presentation.”
Paul A. Baran (1909–1964) said by 1964 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“First, kill all the math classes beyond algebra. Stop wasting so much of our students’ time learning math. It’s not useful, it’s not helpful.”
Jonathan Haidt (born 1963) first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Knowledge@Wharton (2013)
“Mastering an art is like climbing a passion mountain; when you reach the top, the passion fades. So, keep learning.”
Siddharth Katragadda (born 1972) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Learning is a seed that blossoms into a plant and then a tree, but it still needs the sunlight of imagination to thrive”
Siddharth Katragadda (born 1972) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When I understand this liability as a trade-off for my strengths, something new and liberating arises within me. I no longer want to have my liability “fixed”—by learning how to dance solo, for example, when no one wants to dance with me—for to do that would be to compromise or even destroy my gift.”
Parker Palmer (born 1939) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I had a phenomenal memory and could recite long poems by Russian poets, mainly Pushkin. Except for an unusual memory, I was not precocious in any respect and somewhat later, to the chagrin of my father, I was inordinately slow learning the multiplication tables.”
Mark Kac (1914–1984) said by 1984 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Never hesitate to imitate another writer - every person learning a craft or an art needs models. Eventually you'll find your own voice and will shed the skin of the writer you imitated.”
William Zinsser (1922–2015) said by 2015 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It was really evident that what we were learning from a scientific point of view from wolves wasn't very much. The Native Americans I lived with knew far more about wolves than we ever did. I believe it was because they had the time to live alongside these creatures, to share their world.”
Shaun Ellis (born 1977) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source