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“However poetry may have been dishonoured by the follies of some and the vices of others, the abuse or corruption of the best things being always the worst, it will notwithstanding be ever regarded, as it ever has been, by the wisest and most judicious of men as the very flower of human thinking, the most exquisite spirit that can be extracted from the wit and learning of mankind.”
Joseph Trapp (1679–1747) said by 1747 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“No amount of study or learning will make a man a leader unless he has the natural qualities of one.”
Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell (1883–1950) said by 1950 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“With regard to the learning society, as I mentioned earlier, optimistically, people from all walks of life should be able to have equal access to education according to their needs and potentials.”
Sukavich Rangsitpol (born 1935) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“One of the most important learning outcomes in education is learners' self-esteem. It is most desirable that every learner, at various stages of education, should be able to realize his or her capacity, potentiality and optimum capability in physical, intellectual, social and emotional (moral) developments.”
Sukavich Rangsitpol (born 1935) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In fostering a sense of success, teachers have to be responsive to the learners and create several self-assessment activities in learning.”
Sukavich Rangsitpol (born 1935) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The reflective teacher is also a learner. He or she always reflects on his or her behaviour by looking at what happens to the learners. Learning about the learners' responses will help the reflective teacher select more effective behaviour for some particular purposes that suits particular learners.”
Sukavich Rangsitpol (born 1935) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It will be fair and just to require all teachers to be reflective, only if educational practices specify the empowering of human resources or emphasize that learning is a reconstruction of nature. Otherwise, retraining of teachers to be more reflective will not be cost-effective”
Sukavich Rangsitpol (born 1935) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The learner has to realize that he or she is the one who sets the objective, the learning tasks and the stage for success.”
Sukavich Rangsitpol (born 1935) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The learning must belong to the learners and not to the teachers.”
Sukavich Rangsitpol (born 1935) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Constructive process is a process of development and learning is a process of reconstruction of nature.”
Sukavich Rangsitpol (born 1935) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Depression is the enemy of each improvement. There can be no constructive building in doubt. There will be no learning under fear. Observation is a step toward justice. Selfhood is betrayal of self-renunciation. Without achievement there is no path.”
Helena Roerich (1879–1955) said by 1955 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What we need today is that intellectuals and religious people should come forth to stem the rot. We need people from our universities and seats of learning to come out in an endeavour to save the society.”
Abul Hasan Ali Hasani Nadwi (1913–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“China is learning more technology from Israel, trading more China finally decided to establish former diplomatic relations with Israel [in 1992] because they believed that being friendly with Jews is good for China’s development and to change China’s image internationally.”
Xu Xin (Judaic scholar) first seen 2014 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: March 2014
“Three or four decades ago, society believed it efficient and fair to use one standard to evaluate all (high school) students. Since then, there has been a paradigm shift toward a pluralistic model of learning and university recruitment.”
Hocheng Hong (born 1958) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Hocheng Hong (2018) cited in "Breaking the Class Ceiling" on Taiwan Today, 1 September 2018.
“[...] why should I be studying for a future that soon will be no more, when no one is doing anything whatsoever to save that future? And what is the point of learning facts within the school system when the most important facts given by the finest science of that same school system clearly means nothing to our politicians and our society?”
Greta Thunberg (born 2003) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We hope people can set aside their fears and partisan biases and stop thinking that learning from the mistakes of the past means causing animosity.”
Cheng Li-chun (born 1969) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Cheng Li-chun (2019) cited in "Transitional justice not aimed at spurring animosity: culture minister" on Focus Taiwan, 31 January 2019.
“What I was learning in graduate school did not so much leave out continents and their people as it left out half the human race, women.”
Gerda Lerner (1920–2013) said by 2013 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Slowly I began to realize that the bells and the confinement, the crazy sequences, the age-segregation, the lack of privacy, the constant surveillance, and all the rest of the national curriculum of schooling were designed exactly as if someone had set out to prevent children from learning how to think and act, to coax them into addiction and dependent behavior.”
John Taylor Gatto (1935–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The idea of schooling free men in anything would have revolted Athenians. Forced training was for slaves. Among free men, learning was self-discipline, not the gift of experts.”
John Taylor Gatto (1935–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If you don't get a vaccine, if you don't wash your hands, if you don't pay attention, your actions could have devastating effects. And this is the same for climate change. So I think right now, there's a huge opportunity for, you know, all of us individuals to take advantage of what we are learning right now, and apply it properly to the climate crisis that no one can deny is happening.”
Severn Cullis-Suzuki (born 1979) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“This country is once again looking to Virginia to lead the way. Let us lead with humility and optimism, telling the truth, learning from history and removing every obstacle to progress for all Virginians. Let us rely on the compass we all carry to show us the way ahead. I ask you to join me. Let’s get to work.”
Ralph Northam (born 1959) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“... as soon as I got backpropagation working, I realized--because of what we'd been doing with Boltzmann machines--that you could use autoencoders to do unsupervised learning. You just get the output layer to reproduce the input layer, and then you don't need a separate teaching signal. Then the hidden units are representing some code for the input.”
Geoffrey Hinton (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I’m kind of new to this game, frankly, so I’m going to be on a steep learning curve myself about how the Fed operates, how the Federal Reserve makes its decisions. It’s hard for me to say even what my role will be there, assuming I get confirmed.”
Stephen Moore (born 1960) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: March 22, 2019 on Bloomberg Television (; ; )
“If our memories are as absorbent as research has demonstrated, our awareness as wide, our brains and bodies as sensitive; if we can will changes in our physiology at the level of a single cell; if we are heirs to such evolutionary virtuosity—how can we be performing and learning at such mediocre levels? If we're so rich, why aren't we smart? p. 279”
Marilyn Ferguson (1938–2008) said by 2008 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We begin to see the unease and disease of our adult lives as elaborate patterns that emerged from a system that taught us young how to be still, look backward, look to authority, construct certainties. The fear of learning—and transformation—is the inevitable product of such a system.”
Marilyn Ferguson (1938–2008) said by 2008 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Just as health is vastly more than medicine, just as learning transcends education, so a system of values is the context for the workings of any economy. Whatever our priorities—self aggrandizement, efficiency, status, health, security, recreation, human relationships, competition, cooperation, craftsmanship, material goods—they are reflected in the workings of the economy. p. 326”
Marilyn Ferguson (1938–2008) said by 2008 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We are learning to approach problems differently, knowing that most of the world's crises grew out of the old paradigm— the forms, structures, and beliefs of an obsolete understanding of reality. Now we can seek answers outside the old frameworks, ask new questions, synthesize, and imagine. Science has given us insights into wholes and systems, stress and transformation.”
Marilyn Ferguson (1938–2008) said by 2008 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We can begin anywhere—everywhere. "Let there be peace," says a bumper sticker, "and let it begin with me." Let there be health, learning, relationship, right uses of power, meaningful work.... Let there be transformation, and let it begin with me.”
Marilyn Ferguson (1938–2008) said by 2008 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“‘In the 7th century of the Christian era,’ Vincent Smith wrote, ‘the Nalanda establishment undoubtedly was the most important and splendid of its kind in India, or, in fact, the world. It was the principal centre of Buddhist learning, and was crowded with students from every quarter. It was truly a great university…’”
Vincent Arthur Smith (1848–1920) said by 1920 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Vincent Smith, quoted in Shourie, Arun (2014). Eminent historians: Their technology, their line, their fraud. Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India : HarperCollins Publishers.
“I feel that I have a certain amount of experience and I'm still learning so much. But a director's job is so vast; they have so much to do with the preparation. You have to be great with all kinds of personalities and you have to be very patient, there's a lot of skills I'm not sure if I have. So I don't know if I'm ready to direct, but who knows what the future has.”
Jason Statham (born 1967) first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Jason Statham Talks Parker, Crank 3, Heat, Homefront, Hummingbird, and More: "Collider". (25 January, 2013)
“Just getting auditions was rough. But also just learning how to act - when I did my first role, in a film I did which was a favour to a friend, I realised I was really bad at it.”
Dave Bautista (born 1969) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is the greatest achievement of my life. Yes, I have used that word: a great achievement. My learning to read was an achievement. Nobody knows that but me.”
Walter Tevis (1928–1984) said by 1984 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It all began, I suppose, with learning to build fire—to warm the cave and keep the predators out. And it ended with time-release Valium.”
Walter Tevis (1928–1984) said by 1984 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Until learning how to read I had lived in a whole underpopulated world of self-centered, drug-addicted fools, all of us living by our Rules of Privacy in some crazy dream of Self-Fulfillment.”
Walter Tevis (1928–1984) said by 1984 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Is there a God?” I said. “I mean, are you in touch, telepathically, with any kind of God?” “No. I’m not in touch with anything like that. As far as I know, there is no God.” “Oh,” I said. “It doesn’t bother you,” the voice said. “You may think it does; but it doesn’t. You’re really on your own. You’ve been learning that.”
Walter Tevis (1928–1984) said by 1984 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“One night I saw Master Hafiz in a dream; I said, 'O thou who art peerless in excellence and learning Wherefore didst thou take to thyself this verse of Yazid, Notwithstanding all this virtue and eminence?' He answered, 'Thou understandest not this matter; The infidel's goods are lawful spoil to the true believer!”
Ahli Shirazi (1454–1535) said by 1535 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: translated by Edward. G. Browne, A Literary History of Persia, 1909, p.225
“I regret the time I have been eating instead of being in pursuit of learning - for time is precious.”
Fakhr al-Din al-Razi (1150–1210) said by 1210 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Education is a journey — and getting your degree doesn’t mean you’ve finished learning.”
Nina Vaca first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Nina Vaca Shows Small Businesses Are Big Players, Forbes (December 2, 2017)
“Challenging power structures from the inside, working the cracks within the system, however, requires learning to speak multiple languages of power convincingly.”
Patricia Hill Collins (born 1948) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Learning to write is not a linear process. There is no logical A-to-B-to-C way to become a good writer. One neat truth about writing cannot answer it all. There are many truths. […] Some techniques are appropriate at some times and some for other times. Every moment is different. Different things work. One isn't wrong and the other right. In class we try different techniques or methods.”
Natalie Goldberg (born 1948) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As business leaders, we should resist the temptation to believe that learning stops after a bachelor's degree, an MBA, or a few years in the workplace. We need only be humble enough to accept the wisdom we are offered.”
Bhanu Choudhrie (born 1978) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Expanding Your Mind, Growing Your Business", Harvard Business School (2019)
“They [school strikers] should be learning, they shouldn't be bunking off and it's very irresponsible for people to encourage children to do so.”
Gavin Williamson (born 1976) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Said during the September 2019 climate strikes. Climate strike: Thousands protest across UK (20 September 2019)
“The skill I was learning was a crucial one, the patience to read things I could not yet understand.”
Tara Westover (born 1986) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is a crime to start a child learning to read and write as soon as it is out of the cradle. We should get ideas before starting on the business of representing them.”
J. Howard Moore (1862–1916) first seen 1910 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Human Nature is Defective", speech to the Young People's Socialist League, The Chicago Tribune, 20 Oct. 1910
“For colored people to acquire learning in this country, makes tyrants quake and tremble on their sandy foundation. Why, what is the matter? Why, they know that their infernal deeds of cruelty will be made known to the world.”
David Walker (abolitionist) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“From the day of his talkative, overconfident arrival at Irving he had failed and failed at learning how not to behave like a jerk; and everybody knew what kind of life a jerk could expect at prep school.”
Richard Yates (1926–1992) said by 1992 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Protect him, yes, with my life; spare him of learning responsibility and to take care of himself, no.”
Ana Castillo (born 1953) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Black Dove: Mamá, Mi'jo, and Me (2016)
“Luis Valdez said it long ago: The beauty and the frustration of theater is it is one permanent long shot…You never get up close in someone’s eyes. And that kind of blew me away (while shooting) a close-up. That was all new storytelling for me, and I had to figure it out on a very fast learning curve.”
Richard Montoya (born 1959) first seen 2015 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On how he transitioned into filmmaking in “Culture Clash’s Richard Montoya becomes a movie multitasker” in The Sacramento Bee (2015 Apr 13)
“I’m still learning a lot. For me, it’s like, “Where could this be going?” Alright, let me do that work now.”
Elizabeth Acevedo (born 1988) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“…and i am learning to hope like a bird learns its first affair with wind and sun like an orange learns to take flight into the mouth of a boy in summer…”
Andrés Montoya (1968–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source