And just because you have colleges and universities doesn't mean you have education.

Like jilted and disappointed lovers, some of my students just want to be left alone.

The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.

The growth of understanding follows an ascending spiral rather than a straight line.

Learning to make films is very easy. Learning what to make films about is very hard.

A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.

A teacher's job is to take a bunch of live wires and see that they are well-grounded.

Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

Growth means change and change involves risk, stepping from the known to the unknown.

All there is to writing is having ideas. To learn to write is to learn to have ideas.

Education, therefore, is a process of living and not a preparation for future living.

Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; and love by love.

Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.

I've known countless people who were reservoirs of learning, yet never had a thought.

You have to honor failure, because failure is just the negative space around success.

Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learned.

Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.

Improvement is about doing something better; innovation is about doing something new.

Loneliness is not cured by human company. Loneliness is cured by contact with reality.

People will always try to stop you from doing the right thing if it is unconventional.

It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.

A humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.

The past can hurt. But the way I see it, you can either run from it, or learn from it.

It is rare to find learned men who are clean, do not stink and have a sense of humour.

To stay young requires unceasing cultivation of the ability to unlearn old falsehoods.

How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?

Lateral trust among colleagues is as important as vertical trust within the hierarchy.

It is more important to keep the horse going hard than to always play the exact notes.

Teaching is an emotional practice: it activates, colors & expresses people's feelings.

We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.

Every kid has something they're good at, that you hope they find and gravitate toward.

Find your passion, learn how to add value to it, and commit to a lifetime of learning.

As we acquire knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious.

Nothing in this world is a gift. Whatever must be learned must be learned the hard way.

Learn about a pine tree from a pine tree, and about a bamboo plant from a bamboo plant.

He that has sense knows that learning is not knowledge, but rather the art of using it.

He who has no inclination to learn more will be very apt to think that he knows enough.

Never believe on faith, see for yourself! What you yourself don't learn you don't know.

The drive to learn is as strong as the sexual drive. It begins earlier and lasts longer

If no one is pissed-off with you then you are dead but just haven't figured it out yet.

In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him, and in that I am his pupil.

Learn to be satisfied. It is just as easy as being dissatisfied-and much more pleasant.

The full area of ignorance is not mapped. We are at present only exploring the fringes.

High performance leaders know they have to breathe out when they are coming up for air.

Once in awhile you get shown the light, in the strangest of places if you look it right

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

Academics were important to my parents, as immigrants. Education is where it all begins.

The things taught in schools & colleges are not an education but the means of education.

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