Quotes about learning

„If man is to survive, he will have learned to take a delight in the essential differences between men and between cultures. He will learn that differences in ideas and attitudes are a delight, part of life's exciting variety, not something to fear.“

—  Gene Roddenberry American television screenwriter and producer 1921 - 1991

„Embrace every challenge you have, every person you meet, every place you visit, every task you succeed at, and especially those at which you fail. You will learn from them all. You'll learn about the world at large and about other people but most important, you'll learn about yourself.“

—  Richie Sambora musician, songwriter 1959

Doctorate Award Speech, Kean University (2004)

„Wise? No, I simply learned to think.“

—  Christopher Paolini, book Eldest

Source: Eldest

„It was in prison that we found the hope of salvation for the Communists. It was there that we developed a sense of responsibility toward them. It was in being tortured by them that we learned to love them.“

—  Richard Wurmbrand Romanian Christian minister of Jewish descent 1909 - 2001

Source: Tortured For Christ (1967), p. 58.

„Should you seek might, power, false honor, excess — seek that we would work for you to provide your temporal advantages — we will bring you as close to the throne as you wish, and then turn you over to the consequences of your folly, but our inner sanctuary remains closed to such. But should you want to learn wisdom — want to learn to make mankind more clever, better, free and happy — then be thrice welcomed by us.“

—  Adam Weishaupt German philosopher and founder of the Order of Illuminati 1748 - 1830

Die neuesten Arbeiten des Spartacus und Philo in dem Illuminaten-Orden (1794) pp. 9-10.

„The boy never cried again, and he never forgot what he'd learned: that to love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be the one destroyed.“

—  Cassandra Clare, book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

„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 Thai politician 1935

Education for All People and Education for Life

„Constructive process is a process of development and learning is a process of reconstruction of nature.“

—  Sukavich Rangsitpol Thai politician 1935

Learning

„The learning must belong to the learners and not to the teachers.“

—  Sukavich Rangsitpol Thai politician 1935

The Learner

„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 Thai politician 1935

The Learner

„In fostering a sense of success, teachers have to be responsive to the learners and create several self-assessment activities in learning.“

—  Sukavich Rangsitpol Thai politician 1935

Teacher

„I strongly believe that, as a citizen of the world, any person has the right to learn“

—  Sukavich Rangsitpol Thai politician 1935

Education for All People and Education for Life

„To achieve this, we have to distinctively promote continuing and lifelong education, the form of education which is responsive to individual needs and preferences. With educational facilities and a variety of educational programs available, people can make use of the learning centre as a place to acquire technical skills or knowledge adaptive to their work and daily life activities.“

—  Sukavich Rangsitpol Thai politician 1935

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Education for All People and Education for Life

„The objective of education reform is to creat learning individual, organization, and society. An educated person or the authentic learning outcome should possess the following abilities and characteristics which are based on Thai cultural heritage and appropriate level of education: good physical and mental health, critical thinking, intellectual inquisitiveness, professionalism, sense of responsibility, honesty, selfsacrifice, perseverance, team spirit, adherence to democracy, and love for King, Country and Religion.“

—  Sukavich Rangsitpol Thai politician 1935

The Reason and the objective of Education Reform

„Nothing is more wonderful than the art of being free, but nothing is harder to learn how to use than freedom.“

—  Alexis De Tocqueville, book Democracy in America

Source: Democracy in America

„I think the way that you develop your own sound is you go through a process by which you imitate people sometimes very closely. With me, I would mimic people to the note. And then I think you form a collage of all these different players that you imitate, that you learn, and you form your own recipe. I think anybody that has an originality to them, it came from a pool of taking stuff from their predecessors.“

—  Eric Johnson

"Eric Johnson's Guitar Gets to Austin's Roots" at NPR (13 August 2005) http://www.wbur.org/npr/4795689&ft=3&f=15403510

„In retrospect I would say from Donald Duck I have learned more about life than from all the schools I ever attended.“

—  Gottfried Helnwein Austrian photographer and painter 1948

Memories of Duckburg, http://www.helnwein.com/texte/helnweintexts/artikel_398.html, Zeit Magazin, Hamburg, 1989

„I really am… shinobi trash. But the one thing I still learned is this. That void is something that everyone helps you fill. Just because you face adversity and hardships, is no reason to give up on this world. A person willing to throw away all those memories… of their friends and comrades, will never find peace of mind. Resorting to something like that isn't going to bury that hole. If you persevere and endure, someone will be there to support you!“

—  Hatake Kakashi fictional character in the Naruto manga and anime series

„We never learn, we been here before
Why are we always stuck and running from
The bullets?
The bullets?“

—  Harry Styles English singer, songwriter, and actor 1994

"Sign of the Times", written by Harry Styles, Jeff Bhasker, Mitch Rowland, Ryan Nasci, Alex Salibian, Tyler Johnson
Lyrics