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Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.
Isaac Asimov on learning

Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.
Daniel J. Boorstin on learning

Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily.
Thomas Szasz on learning

Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us - and those around us - more effectively. Look for the learning.
Louisa May Alcott on learning

A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
Frederick Douglass on learning

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
Abigail Adams on learning

Start with God - the first step in learning is bowing down to God only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.
King Solomon on learning

Take those chances and you can achieve greatness, whereas if you go conservative, you'll never know. I truly believe what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Even if you fail, learning and moving on is sometimes the best thing.
Danica Patrick on learning

I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a 'learning experience.' Then again, I like to think of anything stupid I've done as a 'learning experience.' It makes me feel less stupid.
P. J. O'Rourke on learning

Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.
Ambrose Bierce on learning

Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
Benjamin Disraeli on learning

Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow.
William Pollard on learning

Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point, you ain't interesting.
Jim Carrey on learning

Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.
Denis Waitley on learning

The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one.
M. Scott Peck on learning

The least of the work of learning is done in the classroom.
Thomas Merton on learning

A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.
Benjamin Disraeli on learning

Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers.
Mignon McLaughlin on learning

People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.
Francis Bacon on learning

Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen - that stillness becomes a radiance.
Morgan Freeman on learning