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Why do not they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth.

A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning.

Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.

We do not learn and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.

When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals, he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized.

I would fain grow old learning many things.

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

If I am through learning, I am through.

These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness.

Defense is a definite part of the game, and a great part of defense is learning to play it without fouling.

There is always failure. And there is always disappointment. And there is always loss. But the secret is learning from the loss, and realizing that none of those holes are vacuums.

Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.

As long as you live, keep learning how to live.

Some of the companies we helped start are names you know. An office supply company called Staples - where I am pleased to see the Obama campaign has been shopping The Sports Authority, which became a favorite of my sons. We started an early childhood learning center called Bright Horizons that First Lady Michelle Obama rightly praised.

Not to unlearn what you have learned is the most necessary kind of learning.

Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.

An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.

I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning to sail my ship.

A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows.