“If you don't know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.”
Ayn Rand book Atlas Shrugged
Source: Atlas Shrugged
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Stephen R. Covey book The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
Source: The Seven Habits Of Highly Effective People (1989), p. 12
Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
“For the things we have to learn before we can do, we learn by doing.”
Aristotle book Nicomachean Ethics
Book II, 1103a.33: Cited in: Oxford Dictionary of Scientific Quotations (2005), 21:9
Nicomachean Ethics
Source: The Nicomachean Ethics
Norton Juster (1929) American children's writer, academic, and architect
Variant: …it’s not just learning that’s important. It’s learning what to do with what you learn and learning why you learn things that matters.
“By doing nothing men learn to do ill.”
Publilio Siro Latin writer
Maxim 318
Compare Ecclesiasticus 33:27 (KJV): "idleness teacheth much evil".
Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave
“We learn from history that we do not learn from history.”
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831) German philosopher
Douglas Adams book The Salmon of Doubt
Variant: A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.
Source: Interview in The Daily Nexus (5 April 2000), reprinted in The Salmon of Doubt