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Ultimately there is no such thing as failure. There are lessons learned in different ways.
The way to get better at a skill is to force yourself to practice just beyond your limits.
My teachers could easily have ridden with Jesse James for all the time they stole from me.
Nothing of any importance can be taught. It can only be learned, and with blood and sweat.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education.
Children learn how to make good decisions by making decisions, not by following directions.
Confidence is simply that quiet assured feeling you have before you fall flat on your face.
The Civic University operates on a global scale but uses its location to form its identity.
Learning, to be of much use, must have a tendency to spread itself among the common people.
If it all just happened overnight, you would never learn to believe in what you cannot see.
Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.
Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning.
Winning and losing aren't all they're cracked up to be, but the trip to the destination is.
Knowledge increases in proportion to its use; that is, the more we teach the more we learn.
Teachers who don't pull their weight drag down the profession and their colleagues with it.
You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.
Not everyone has equal abilities, but everyone should have equal opportunity for education.
Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.
When creativity is the goal, schools must have their own platforms to network and innovate.
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
The expert knows more and more about less and less until he knows everything about nothing.
Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.
Education is the great American adventure, the world's most colossal democratic experiment.
People have to learn sometimes not only how much the heart, but how much the head, can bear.
Learning is never cumulative, it is a movement of knowing which has no beginning and no end.
No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.
Human growth is not like rhubarb. It can be nurtured and encouraged but it cannot be forced.
Learn your language well and command it well, and you will have the first component to life.
Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.
The true gentleman does not preach what he practices till he has practiced what he preaches.
He, who learns and makes no use of his learning, is a beast of burden, with a load of books.
Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe.
Young children were sooner allured by love, than driven by beating, to attain good learning.
I learned to always take on things I'd never done before. Growth and comfort do not coexist.
I learned just by going around. I know all about Kleenex factories, and all sorts of things.
I maintained my edge by always being a student; you will always have something new to learn.
When I look back at all the crap I learned in high school, it's a wonder I can think at all.
School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is.
All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.
Where my reason, imagination or interest were not engaged, I would not or I could not learn.
Some people are so busy in learning the tricks of the trade that they never learn the trade.
It is always the nearest, plainest and simplest principles that learned men comprehend last.
We need to teach how doubt is not to be feared but welcomed. It's OK to say, "I don't know."
Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
The kind of teacher who is afraid that they are going to be replaced by a computer should be.
The hills are reared, the seas are scooped in vain If learning's altar vanish from the plain.
You've always had the power right there in your shoes, you just had to learn it for yourself.
I soon found out you can't change the world. The best you can do is to learn to live with it.
Ninety-nine percent of people believe they can't do great things, so they aim for mediocrity.