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“I don't say I was 'proceeding down a thoroughfare', I say I 'walked down the road'. I don't say I 'passed a hallowed institute of learning', I say I 'passed a school'. You don't wear all your jewellery at once. You're much more believable if you talk in your own voice.”
Maeve Binchy (1939–2012) said by 2012 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Learning should be a pleasure, and children should grow up to imagine wisdom with a smiling face, not a fierce and terrifying one.”
Sarah Bakewell (born 1963) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Financial hardship has a way of keeping people sober. The challenge I see at such times is simple: Will we face reality or deny it? In the past I have done both. But when it comes down to really doing something about a problem, I'm learning that it's prudent to address it head on with those who are closest to you and work at it together.”
Danny Yamashiro (born 1967) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“True learning comes from engaging in discourse with those who are profoundly different. Your mind may not be swayed, but the interaction should open up your eyes.”
Edgar Bronfman Sr. (1929–2013) first seen 2012 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: http://www.faithstreet.com/onfaith/2012/10/09/bronfman-why-civil-discourse-is-imperative-for-inter-jewish-dialogue/11782.
“Our youth have defied and derided a regime which is not mindful of their future but is obsessed with the hereafter. The Iranian youth keep defending their right to live their age and the epoch in which they are born; that is to say in a world flourished by science and learning, and not mourning and martyrdom.”
Reza Pahlavi (born 1960) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Peace and Stability in the Middle East and Beyond: A Hostage to Iranian Intransigence and Adventurism.", Oct. 24, 2007.
“What makes learning possible is that the coding imposed by the mother tongue corresponds to a possible mode of perception and interpretation of the environment. A green car can be analysed experientially as carness qualified by greenness, if that is the way the system works.”
Michael Halliday (1925–2018) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: p. 140 cited in: Clare Painter (2005) Learning Through Language In Early Childhood. p. 64.
“I write about things I don’t know all that well just to try and understand them. The act of writing is an investigative, learning act.”
Grace Paley (1922–2007) said by 2007 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I want to be a balanced artist ... this is all years of me learning me and my style, and deciding to do something different that would get everyone's attention.”
Nicki Minaj (born 1982) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Real learning... is a thing in which the learner is not a receiver only of words written or spoken: he must be a doer.”
George Long (scholar) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The term closed loop-learning process refers to the idea that one learns by determining what s desired and comparing what is actually taking place as measured at the process and feedback for comparison. The difference between what is desired and what is taking place provides an error indication which is used to develop a signal to the process being controlled.”
Harold Chestnut (1917–2001) first seen 1983 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Harold Chestnut (1984) in: Lawrence P. Grayson, Joseph M. Biedenbach eds. Engineering--images for the future": proceedings, 1983 Annual Conference. p. 923
“Someone told me that creativity is just learning to do something with a different perspective.”
Ben Carson (born 1951) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We cannot allow ourselves to be prejudiced against a subject, based upon what someone else has said or just upon the difficulty we encounter in learning.”
Ben Carson (born 1951) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“That learning process has been likened to the challenge of having someone open a fire hydrant and expect you to swallow it all.”
Ben Carson (born 1951) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If we set our priority “the removal of all risk”, we'll soon have sterile, stagnant, and unstimulating learning environments.”
Ben Carson (born 1951) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The path that leads from the persona to the self, from the adult to the outlaw, consists of learning to distinguish between false desire and true desire, or superficial desire and profound desire, or obsessive desire and free passion, … or illusory needs and real needs.”
Sam Keen (1931–2025) said by 2025 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My little children are playing at my side, Learning to talk, they babble unformed sounds. These things have made me happy again And I forget my lost cap of office. Distant, distant I gaze at the white clouds: With a deep yearning I think of the Sages of Antiquity.”
Tao Yuanming (365–427) said by 427 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The mechanism of learning is of course one of the most enthralling and baffling mysteries in the field of biology.”
William Grey Walter (1910–1977) said by 1977 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Not in looks, but in action, the model must resemble an animal. Therefore it must have these or some measure of these attributes: exploration, curiosity, free-will in the sense of unpredictability, goalseeking, self-regulation, avoidance of dilemmas, foresight, memory, learning, forgetting, association of ideas, form recognition, and the elements of social accommodation. Such is life.”
William Grey Walter (1910–1977) said by 1977 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Coherence and harmony in relations and interactions between the members of a human social system are due to the coherence and harmony of their growth in it, in an ongoing social learning which their own social ( linguistic) operation defines and which is possible thanks to the genetic and ontogenetic processes that permit structural plasticity of the members.”
Humberto Maturana (1928–2021) first seen 1989 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: p. 199 as cited in: Vincent Kenny (1989) "Life, the Multiverse and Everything; an Introduction to the Ideas of. Humberto Maturana".
“Aiki lab is a place for sharing, creation, collaboration, research, development, mentoring, and of course, learning.”
Bassel Khartabil (1981–2015) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Tweet July 14, 2010, 3:59AM at Twitter.com
“Our emotional intelligence determines our potential for learning the practical skills that are based on its five elements: self-awareness, motivation, self-regulation, empathy, and adeptness in relationships”
Daniel Goleman (born 1946) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The second model is the functionalist model of mind. The organism through acquired S-R responses or through operations on the environmental manages to stay alive and adjust itself to the environment. The Thorndykian and Skinnerian approaches to learning and the adaptive model of the psychoanalytical theory come under this heading.”
Thaddus E. Weckowicz (1919–2000) said by 2000 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“# They have learned sideways thinking, the cross classifying habit of mind that comes from learning many different ways to look at things.”
Roger Smith (executive) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am whole-heartedly in favour of the profession learning more about the history of [information transfer]. We have a tendency to focus on the newest forms of information provision … neglecting the continued existence and continuing importance of all the previous forms… But our profession is not that of the historian (or sociologist or philosopher) interesting as their work may be.”
Brian Campbell Vickery (1918–2009) said by 2009 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“People will resist information unless the price of not knowing it greatly exceeds the price of learning it.”
Calvin Mooers (1919–1994) first seen 1959 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Attributed to Mooers (1959) in (1997) "A Tribute To Calvin N. Mooers, A Pioneer Of Information Retrieval." The Scientist, Vol:11, #6, p. 9, March 17, 1997
“Strange about learning; the farther I go the more I see that I never knew even existed.”
Daniel Keyes (1927–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“So many of the ideas on which our psychologists base their beliefs about human intelligence, memory, and learning are all wishful thinking.”
Daniel Keyes (1927–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Happiest day of my life, was when the Defense Department took down its Mercator... I started learning how to make maps while on an Army payroll. So getting to see mine in the Pentagon, flanked by generals, is a little like being a prophet who is finally honored by his hometown.”
Arthur H. Robinson (1915–2004) first seen 1989 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Robinson (1989) in Chicago Tribune; As cited in: Myrna Oliver (2004)
“Culture has been distinguished from the other elements of action by the fact that it is intrinsically transmissible from one action system to another from personality to personality by learning and from social system to social system by diffusion. This is because culture is constituted by "ways of orienting and acting," these ways being "embodied in" meaningful symbols.”
Talcott Parsons (1902–1979) said by 1979 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Vertical mathematising is the most likely part of the learning process for the bonds with reality to be loosened and eventually cut.”
Hans Freudenthal (1905–1990) said by 1990 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Unlike the physicist, the psychologist … investigates processes that belong to the same order—perception, learning, thinking—as those by which he conducts his investigation.”
Morris Raphael Cohen (1880–1947) said by 1947 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Reason and Nature (1953), p. 81
“...good teachers are priceless. They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even when you don't know it." "Because they're passionate about their subjects.”
Nicholas Sparks (born 1965) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My dream is to see a Middle East region where everyone has access to the unique and rich tradition of learning that has such a strong place in our Arabic and Islamic heritage.”
Mozah bint Nasser Al Missned (born 1959) first seen 2012 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Q&A Interview: Her Highness Sheikha Moza bint Nasser Launches Global Education Initiative", Forbes for Skoll World Forum, November 14 2012
“I gave up the love of learning for the love of oblivion—the two cannot live together.”
Tad Williams (born 1957) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“She was learning, quite late, what many people around her appeared to have known since childhood: that life can be perfectly satisfying without major achievements.”
Alice Munro (1931–2024) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Too Much Happiness", in Too Much Happiness (2009)
“The Nurture Only theory asks us to believe not only that selection eliminated the [sex] differences for reasons unknown, but that learning and culture then coincidentally reproduced exactly the same differences in every culture on record. This is not a compelling thesis.”
Steve Stewart-Williams (born 1971) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is what we think we know that keeps us from learning.”
Chester Barnard (1886–1961) said by 1961 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Attributed to Chester Bernard in: Brand, Richard A. "Hypothesis-based research." Journal of Orthopaedic & Sports Physical Therapy 28.2 (1998): 71-73.
“I do remember not having good social skills [as a child], although I learned them later. I learned them from hanging out at a gay disco, learning them from drag queens; and I learned them in Liverpool, and I learned them in juvenile hall. So, I learned [my social skills] from future criminals, drag queens, and rock stars.”
Courtney Love (born 1964) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On developing social skills , The Return of Courtney Love (2006)
“That she learned ballet not with the idea of becoming a full-fledged dancer. It was just to train my body and more for the sheer joy of learning something beautiful.”
Rukmini Devi Arundale (1904–1986) said by 1986 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I fancy I hear them talking there In an open boat, and the speech is fair. And the boy is learning the ways of men From the finest man in his youthful ken. Kings, to the youngster, cannot compare With the gentle father who's with him there. And the greatest mind of the human race Not for one minute could take his place.”
Edgar Guest (1881–1959) said by 1959 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Learning the long lines and delivering them in one take was a nightmare, but Rameshji helped me as also the fact that I have a good memory. It is only when you become successful that you realize how everything contributes to your success.”
Hema Malini (born 1948) first seen 1978 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On her delivery of long dialogue In the film Sholay, page 1978
“I made a serial called Nupur in which I danced for one particular shloka of Soundarya Lahari . The show was mostly about dance. It is then that I started learning to chant Soundarya Lahari . …People only know me as an actor and a dancer but recently I thought about doing this album.”
Hema Malini (born 1948) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We got into telecom in the '90s by bidding for cellular licences. But I felt that the real value is in the convergence of information and communication; pure communication will not deliver a sustainable value; that is why we called ourselves infocomm. It was learning a whole new domain. We brought in experts from the outside but we essentially did it with proven Reliance people.”
Mukesh Ambani (born 1957) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Just because you are CEO, don't think you have landed. You must continually increase your learning, the way you think, and the way you approach the organization. I've never forgotten that.”
Indra Nooyi (born 1955) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Scientists are trained to be rational and we are not trained to interact with people and develop social skills. Politics is about being able to convince people. Scientists could do with learning how to do that.”
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan (born 1952) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We in this country also need to make sure that the doors of learning are always kept open because India still belongs to the developing world.”
Fali Sam Nariman (1929–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I can assert that it is this belief in learning from experience, a growth mindset, the power of chance events, and self-reflection that have helped me grow to the present.”
N. R. Narayana Murthy (born 1946) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It was the greatest learning summer of my whole life, but then came the fall, and I was told that I’d have to go back to school again. “NO WAY, JOSÉ!” I screamed, because I now knew that at school they were trying to “break” us, not “amanzar” us.”
Victor Villaseñor (born 1940) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Papa always explained to me that there is no such thing as a kids’ game. That there are only games with which kids are learning the facts of life, but it’s the parents that are so tapados—so blind and constipated that they can’t see what these games are really all about.”
Victor Villaseñor (born 1940) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My father’s mother, a pure-blooded Indian from Oaxaca, had been a gifted fifteen-year-old when Benito Juárez won Mexico’s independence from France. They’d taken her to the Academy of blah-blah-blah in Mexico City, and she’d astonished her European professors by learning French in six weeks.”
Victor Villaseñor (born 1940) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source