Learned Person Quotes

• The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.

  Carl Rogers

  Inspirational, Motivational, Education

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• You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Education

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• I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person is thus attracted, it is worse.

  Abu Bakr

  Education, Ignorant Masses, World

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  If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

  John Quincy Adams

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.

  John Dewey

  Life, Inspiring, Education

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• Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Graduation

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• I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way (s)he handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

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• Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

  William Butler Yeats

  Inspirational, Motivational, Graduation

  "Gov. Brown Uses State of the State Speech to Push Education Reforms" by Adolfo Guzman-Lopez, www.scpr.org. January 24, 2013.

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• A learned person will become noble only when he or she has put into real practice what has been learned, instead of mere words.

  Dalai Lama

  Real, Practice, Noble

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• Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

  Chanakya

  Inspirational, Beauty, Education

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• You can tell a lot about a person from his underwear.

  Rachel Bilson

  Rainy Day, Forget Everything, Tangled

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• Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn.

  Alice Miller

  Education, Children, Learning

  Alice Miller (2002). “For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence”, p.101, Macmillan

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• The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

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• If anyone spends almost the whole day in reading...he gradually loses the capacity for thinking...This is the case with many learned persons; they have read themselves stupid

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Stupid, Reading, Thinking

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• The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Education

  Mark Twain (2015). “The Prince and the Pauper (StoneHenge Classics)”, p.154, StoneHenge Classics

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• An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.

  Russell Baker

  Education, Information, Educated

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• You can tell a lot about a person by who his or her heroes are.

  Steve Jobs

  Hero, Rainy Day, Forget Everything

  "The Seed of Apple's Innovation". Bloomberg interview, www.bloomberg.com. October 12, 2004.

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• You can tell a lot about a person by what’s on their playlist.

  Mark Ruffalo

  Rainy Day, Forget Everything, Tangled

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• Education beats the beauty and the youth.

  Chanakya

  Education, Youth, Teachers Day

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• A learned person among ignorant people, is like a live person among the dead.

  Muhammad Jafar

  Ignorance, People, Ignorant

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• If we grow wiser and more learned in our intercourse with wise and learned persons, how much more will we gain in our inner life by communing with God in prayer.

  Huldrych Zwingli

  Wise, Prayer, Gains

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• It's quite extraordinary to hear a supposedly learned person call the United States a leading terrorist nation, one of the leading terrorist nations in the world. It's false and very treacherous teaching.

  Noam Chomsky

  Teaching, United States, World

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• An ignorant person with a bad character is like an unarmed robber, but a learned person with a blog is a robber fully armed

  Mickey Kaus

  Character, Ignorant, Persons

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• . . . [A]s a rule, the most learned persons do not produce the greatest results. We see that only too often.

  Vincent de Paul

  Wisdom, Results, Produce

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