Learning(Related Subjects: Education, Knowledge, Teaching)

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence. Abigail Adams (1744 - 1818), 1780 Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous. Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC), The Confucian Analects That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way. Doris Lessing Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient. Eugene S. Wilson Whoso neglects learning in his youth,Loses the past and is dead for the future. Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC), Phrixus The wisest mind has something yet to learn. George Santayana (1863 - 1952) Much learning does not teach understanding. Heraclitus (540 BC - 480 BC), On the Universe Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked. Lord Chesterfield (1694 - 1773) We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction. Malcolm Gladwell, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, 2005 What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers. Martina Horner, President of Radcliffe College Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it. Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919) Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival. W. Edwards Deming (1900 - 1993)