Quotes About Value Of Learning

#1. When we invoke the soul we move from the realm of information to the more vital realm of wisdom, the attainment of which is the only true value of learning.

Edmund Fuller

#2. My parents instilled in me the value of learning and encouraged me to succeed in school.

Bruce Brown

#3. The value of an education in a liberal arts college is not the learning of many facts, but the training of the mind to think something that cannot be learned from textbooks.

Albert Einstein

#4. Your young white, who gathers his learning from books and can measure what he knows by the page, may conceit that his knowledge, like his legs, outruns that of his fathers', but, where experience is the master, the scholar is made to know the value of years, and respects them accordingly.

James Fenimore Cooper

#5. Growing up elite means learning to value yourself in terms of the measures of success that mark your progress into and through the elite:

William Deresiewicz

#6. Learning the value of silence is learning to listen to, instead of screaming at, reality

Monks Of New Skete

#7. There is a certain race of men that either imagine it their duty, or make it their amusement, to hinder the reception of every work of learning or genius, who stand as sentinels in the avenues of fame, and value themselves upon giving Ignorance and Envy the first notice of a prey.

Samuel Johnson

#8. The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think,

Walter Isaacson

#9. If we value independence, if we are disturbed by the growing conformity of knowledge, of values, of attitudes, which our present system induces, then we may wish to set up conditions of learning which make for uniqueness, for self-direction, and for self-initiated learning.

Carl Rogers

#10. The holy and learned Jesuit, Father Suarez, was so deeply aware of the value of the Angelic Salutation that he said that he would gladly give all his learning for the price of one Hail Mary that had been said properly.

St. Louis De Montfort

#11. The pursuit of learning is not a piece of content that can be taught. It is a value that teachers model. Only teachers who are avid, internally motivated learners can truly teach their students the joy of learning.

Martin Haberman

#12. It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Norman Vincent Peale

#13. On assessment: measure what you value instead of valuing only what you can measure.

Andy Hargreaves

#14. Humanism means that the man is the measure of all things ... But it is not only that man must start from himself in the area of knowledge and learning, but any value system must come arbitrarily from man himself by arbitrary choice.

Francis A. Schaeffer

#15. It was the beginning of learning that I can't look to any one person to be my security blanket, and that my value goes deeper than one person's opinion of me. I learned that friendships are fragile and we need to handle them with respect and reverence.

Melanie Shankle

#16. The Agile Project Management principles and framework encourage learning and adapting as an integral part of delivering value to customers.

Jim Highsmith

#17. It is not the spirit of wealth, of learning, or of culture that can make the church of value, or a power for good in the world, but the spirit of Christ only.

Harold Bell Wright

#18. I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

Hermann Hesse

#19. People never will recollect that mere learning and mere cleverness are of next to no value in life, while energy and intellectual grip, the things that are inborn and cannot be taught, are everything.

Thomas Huxley

#20. Words and numbers are of equal value, for in the cloak of knowledge one is warp and the other woof.

Norton Juster

#21. The value of a prototype is in the education it gives you, not in the code itself.

Amari Cooper

#22. Self-study, in a sense of learning by yourself without anybody teaching you anything, has an enormous value.

Robert Kraft

#23. Mind you, there is no value in learning. You are all mistaken in learning. The only value of knowledge is in the strengthening, the disciplining, of the mind.

Swami Vivekananda

#24. Learning always occurs in a context of taking action, and they value engagement and experience as the most effective strategies for deep learning.

Richard DuFour

#25. Failure is normal expression of an action's re-action. learning is secondary in this process .it is only prime to recognize true capacity within ourselves.it is a tool to transform the same person in new one with new value and outlook towards the same old world.

Ratna M.munshi

#26. Maturity means learning the value of that which is hard-earned.

Philip Toshio Sudo

#27. I believe the main purpose of life is to accept with gratitude what you've been blessed with so that you may use those gifts to mold yourself into the best person you can possibly be. Learning to discern things of true value from those of little or no worth is part of the process.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#28. What is the value of libraries? Through lifelong learning, libraries can and do change lives, a point that cannot be overstated.

Michael E. Gorman

#29. A well-read fool is the most pestilent of blockheads; his learning is a flail which he knows not how to handle, and with which he breaks his neighbor's shins as well as his own. Keep a fellow of this description at arm's length, as you value the integrity of your bones.

Stanislaw Leszczynski

#30. I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Margaret Mead

#31. I'm interested in learning more about myself and what I value in myself and letting that be the beautiful part of me, rather than putting on the makeup or wearing the right designer.

Jessica Simpson

#32. A sense of acquiring more mistakes and regrets the older you get, but also deeper growth in learning from these things. The value of experience.

Brooke Waggoner

#33. Great learning and superior abilities ... will be of little value and small estimation unless virtue, honor, truth, and integrity are added to them.

Abigail Adams

#34. As you have seen the treachery of love because of me, I have seen my cruelty because of you. But you learned mercy from me, and from you I learned resilience. As you came to understand me enough to know the value I placed on selfless love, I understand your nature better.

D. Morgenstern

#35. The good man is the teacher of the bad, And the bad is the material from which the good may learn. He who does not value the teacher, Or greatly care for the material, Is greatly deluded although he may be learned. Such is the essential mystery.

Laozi

#36. The beginning [of a journey] is a terrible time to plan. It's the moment of greatest ignorance. In self-directed education, a lot of the value comes from exploiting opportunities that arise well out to sea, once I've seen some things and begun the learning process.

James Marcus Bach

#37. Rather I think that a man who ... is willing ... to value learning as long as he lives, not supposing that old age brings him wisdom of itself, will necessarily pay more attention to the rest of his life.

Plato

#38. Thought and learning are of small value unless translated into action.

Wang Yangming

#39. Learning locked in mildewed books is of little use to anyone and therefore of no value unless it can be used.

L. Ron Hubbard

#40. My parents always stressed the importance of education, working hard in school and learning as much as possible. They also encouraged me to value myself and believe in myself and do what I thought was right for me.

Hillary Clinton

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

Ray Kurzweil

#42. Action learning particularly obliges subjects to become aware of their own value systems, by demanding that the real problems tackled carry some risk of personal failure.

Reg Revans

#43. We can't value only what is easy to measure; measurable outcomes may be the least important results of learning.

Alfie Kohn

#44. Learning the way of grace is about truth. It's reconciling the truth, of both our own infinite value and of others' infinite value - despite our depths of
brokenness.

James Prescott

#45. Virtue and learning, like gold, have their intrinsic value: but if they are not polished, they certainly lose a great deal of their luster: and even polished brass will pass upon more people than rough gold.

Lord Chesterfield

#46. To value learning as a gift, you have to accept pain as a teacher.

Jury Nel

#47. When a concept has been understood intellectually, if the learning is to be of value then a connection with personal feelings, inner knowing and experience has to be made, and consideration of how the information would best be applied.

Peter Shepherd

#48. However great an intellectual may be, however great one may be as a scholar or a man of learning, one has also to acquire humanness. Without humanness, scholarship and intellectual eminence are of no value.

Sathya Sai Baba

#49. There's no true value placed in learning, if the point of you learning something is to simply know it for a test, to get a grade, to go to the good school.

Ezra Miller

#50. Freedom is control in your own life. I have more control now than in the past, and I'm learning the value of saying no. That's very important.

Willie Nelson

#51. The essence of wisdom is learning the value of "staying in the conversation," even when it makes you uncomfortable. Especially when it makes you uncomfortable.

Stefan Molyneux

#52. Since growth is the characteristic of life, education is all one with growing; it has no end beyond itself. The criterion of the value of school education is the extent in which it creates a desire for continuous growth and supplies means for making the desire effective in fact.

John Dewey

#53. The experience of learning how to get straight to the core of a problem proved to be of immense value later when I had a long succession of responsibilities in large, complex government departments.

Elliot Richardson