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“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
“That night my parents told me what my cousin had suggested. I said no, absolutely not! I turned and walked away as fast as I could. My parents really had no idea how much it had hurt me all these years to go to school. I was done with all book learning.”
Victor Villaseñor (born 1940) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When I think about my career, my successes are built on learning from failures.”
Satya Nadella (born 1967) first seen 2015 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Boy Genius Report: "When I think about my career, my successes are built on learning from failures: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella" (29 December 2015)
“I was learning that, even for a woman with power, the path was dotted with land mines—she's so ambitious. she's so aggressive. she's ruthless. "Funny thing," I used to say, "a man has to be Joe McCarthy to be called ruthless . . . all a woman has to do is put you on hold.”
Marlo Thomas (born 1937) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Growing Up Laughing: My Story and the Story of Funny (2010)
“Once again, we face the reality that no one is safe, not even our children at their places of learning. The soul-shattering feelings of anger and despair we feel, along with a sense of hopelessness leave us wondering if our society is irrevocably infected with violence.”
Bernice King (born 1963) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We absorb attitudes as well as subject matter in the learning process. ...the attitudes tend to determine what we see, and what we fail to see, in the subject matter. This is why attitude is just as important as content in the educational process.”
Cyrus H. Gordon (1908–2001) said by 2001 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Sometimes I fear that, if Harvard does not give up trying to turn itself from an Institution of Learning into an Educational Institution, we may have a generation of professors whose duty it will be to disseminate information which they have not the time to acquire.”
Edwin Boring (1886–1968) first seen 1942 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Edwin G. Boring (1942) Sensation and Perception in the History of Experimental Psychology, Preface. p. xi
“The relation of repetitions for learning and for repeating English stanzas needs no amplification. These were learned by heart on the first day with less than half of the repetitions necessary for the shortest of the syllable series.”
Hermann Ebbinghaus (1850–1909) said by 1909 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We will our Rights in Learning's World maintain, Wit's Empire, now, shall know a Female Reign.”
Sarah Egerton (1670–1723) said by 1723 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Can we trust transnational internet groups like Wikipedia, which are self-regulating and unaccountable, to determine or censor information for the public, to decide what are the facts in nearly all fields of life and learning?”
David Frawley (born 1950) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: David Frawley on Twitter on 10 Apr 2019
“Another group at MIT and Harvard University developed the notion of “organizational learning.” Chris Argyris and Donald Schön were the key figures in this group. Argyris was a student of Kurt Lewin, who was a participant in the Macy Foundation meetings that were chaired by Warren McCulloch.”
Stuart A. Umpleby (born 1944) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What I would be so happy about is—I don’t expect everybody to understand everything about science at the end of the season, but I want them to be curious about learning more. I want them to understand the power of science, and its tremendous liberating potential. If those things are communicated, then I feel like my work is done.”
Ann Druyan (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There are two problems in painting. One is to find out what painting is and the other is to find out how to make a painting. The first is learning something and the second is making something.”
Frank Stella (1936–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I always enjoyed training, sweating and learning”
Alfredo Di Stéfano (1926–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Human learning, with the blessing of God upon it, introduces us to divine wisdom; and while we study the works of nature the God of nature will manifest himself to us; since, to a well-tutored mind, “The heavens,” without a miracle, “declare his glory, and the firmament showeth his handy-work.”
George Horne (1730–1792) said by 1792 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: George Horne (bp. of Norwich.) (1799). Discourses on several subjects and occasions. Vol. 1,2, p. 357; As quoted in Allibone (1880)
“One never finishes learning about art. There are always new things to discover. Great works of art seem to look different every time one stands before them. They seem to be as inexhaustible and unpredictable as real human beings.”
Ernst Gombrich (1909–2001) said by 2001 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Learning's always a painful process.”
Luc Besson (born 1959) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Little House books are stories of long ago. The way we live and your schools are much different now, so many changes have made living and learning easier. But the real things haven't changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures and to be cheerful and have courage when things go wrong.”
Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867–1957) first seen 1947 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to children (February 1947)
“The study he conducted with Dabholkar goes to explain why astrology is not a science through a simple experiment. They adopted an experiment conducted by Bernie Silverman, a graduate student of Michigan State University, USA. They collected horoscopes of 100 scholarly students and 100 students with learning difficulties.”
Jayant Narlikar (1938–2025) said by 2025 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I’m very happy that so many children are learning the piano because of me.”
“In a world where nobody understood the viewpoint of the victim, we would all be right to side with the victim. But we live in a world where almost nobody 'comes out' as a Pharisee or a hypocrite, and it seems to me that the way to moral learning proceeds in that direction.”
James Alison (born 1959) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The process which we see is the process of an upset which forces the gradual learning of how to become unattached from everything which seemed divine and holy, the collapse of zeal for the Lord of hosts. At the same time it leads to an apprenticeship in listening to the still, small voice, and the reinvention of a new type of zeal.”
James Alison (born 1959) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What guides us is children's response, their joy in learning to dance, to sing, to live together. It should be a guide to the whole world.”
Yehudi Menuhin (1916–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Cited in Tessa Souter Anything I Can Do... You Can Do Better: How to unlock your creative dreams and change your life, Random House (31 July 2011), p. 156
“Many people do not realise that it takes considerably more art and skill to play the violin lightly than it does to play it loudly. Indeed, the best possible training for young violinists is learning to play pianissimo and without pressure.”
Yehudi Menuhin (1916–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Learning an imposed method seemed not in my nature”
Yehudi Menuhin (1916–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The discontinuation of bodily exercises afforded a proportionable quantity of leisure time for the cultivation of the mind; so that the manners of mankind were softened by degrees, and learning, which had been so long neglected, became fashionable, and was esteemed an indispensable mark of a polite education.”
Joseph Strutt (1749–1802) said by 1802 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Primordial communities of bacteria were elaborately interwoven by communication links. ...These turned a colony into a collective processor... The resulting learning machine was so ingenious that Eshel Ben-Jacob has called its modern bacterial counterpart a "creative web.”
Howard Bloom (born 1943) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A collective learning machine achieves its feats by using five elements... (1) conformity enforcers; (2) diversity generators; (3) inner-judges; (4) resource shifters; and (5) intergroup tournaments.”
Howard Bloom (born 1943) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Remember a networked learning machine's most basic rule: strengthen the connections to those who succeed, weaken them to those who fail.”
Howard Bloom (born 1943) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My published work is just a record of my learning. I'm sharing it with people so they won't make the same mistakes that I did. It's been a painful and slow process. My work is like a journey, a journey of discovery.”
Thomas J. Sargent (born 1943) first seen 1983 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Thomas J. Sargent, in Conversations with Economists (1983) by Arjo Klamer
“On learning more astronomy, in the phenomenon of "averted vision," I found a justification for my rationale about the roundabout path to metaphysics via physics: to see a faint star, it's necessary to look away from it; as soon as one looks at it directly, it vanishes.”
J. Doyne Farmer (born 1952) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The quality that accompanies the emergence of learning in the evolution of higher animals, namely intelligence, is surprisingly difficult to define.”
Richard Leakey (1944–2022) said by 2022 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Another reason for studying philosophy is that it provides a good way of learning to think more clearly about a wide range of issues.”
Nigel Warburton (born 1962) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We look backward at history and tradition to go forward; we can also look downward to go upward. And withholding judgement may be used as a tool to make later judgement more sensitive. This is a way of learning from everything.”
Denise Scott Brown (born 1931) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“These facts have been first disputed and then actively suppressed by the educational establishment, which continues to insist that there are no differences in learning ability between boys and girls.”
Matt Ridley (born 1958) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Just as we underestimate the degree to which human brains rely upon instincts, so we have generally underestimated the degree to which other animals are capable of learning.”
Matt Ridley (born 1958) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Improvement in learning was no part of the thoughts or attention of our ancestors.”
Joseph Yates (judge) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Lifelong learning is no longer a luxury but a necessity for employment.”
“Steve Jobs wasn’t an engineer and he built a trillion-dollar company without ever learning to code.”
“The true and best way of learning any Art, is not to see a great many Examples done by another Person, but to possess ones self first of the Principles of it, and then to make them familiar, by exercising ones self in the Practice. For it is Practice alone, that makes a Man perfect in any thing.”
Brook Taylor (1685–1732) said by 1732 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The fact that a gene must be switched on to form a long-term memory shows clearly that genes are not simply determinants of behavior but are also responsive to environmental stimulation, such as learning.”
Eric Kandel (born 1929) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“...in various types of organisms, from snails to flies to mice to people. ...learning and memory, as well as synaptic and neuronal plasticity, represent a family of processes that share a common logic and some key components but vary in the details of their molecular mechanisms.”
Eric Kandel (born 1929) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I was very much influenced by the psychology of Freud and by early workers in the field of learning and memory—James, Thorndike, Pavlov, Skinner, and Ulric Neisser. Their thinking, and even their errors, provided a wonderfully rich cultural background for my later work.”
Eric Kandel (born 1929) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Writing is not about giving answers. It is about learning how to ask better questions.”
“Learning a new cadence will serve you better than forming your own drum line. You'll probably just frustrate yourself and you boss, who in turn will drum you out.”
John Hoover (consultant) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For language to be generative, children must not be learning by rote. Music is also generative. For every musical phrase I hear, I can always add a note... to generate a new musical phrase.”
Daniel Levitin (born 1957) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Then there are those proverbial “bird brains” of the barnyard, chickens, surely the most maligned and abused animal on the face of the earth, and—just as surely—among the brightest, most social birds we'll find anywhere. … Chickens not only are capable of learning, they are also capable of teaching one another. It turns out that chickens are not as dumb as popular mythology makes them out to be.”
Tom Regan (1938–2017) said by 2017 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The first step in learning to love others is the attempt to understand them.”
Adrienne von Speyr (1902–1967) said by 1967 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Experience taught him that the future was uncertain and one could prepare for it only by learning indifference to disappointment and loss.”
Sean Russell (born 1952) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is unbecoming to a soldier, all this book-learning.”
Michael Shaara (1928–1988) said by 1988 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source