Everyone has learning difficulties, because learning to speak French or understanding relativity is difficult.
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Learning is replicating, understanding is creating. Learning is taking, understanding is giving
OCTAV DRUTA Not everyone in school is learning. Not everyone learning is in school
SAJI IJIYEMI Everyone who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.
OSCAR WILDE For me, French is so rich and so sacred that learning it is like learning a foreign language.
FABRICE LUCHINI The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand i...
BARUCH SPINOZA The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand i...
BARUCH (_BENEDICT DE) SPINOZA The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand i...
BARUCH SPINOZA Much learning does not teach understanding.
HERACLITUS Much learning does not teach understanding.
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS Learning to trust is one of life's most difficult tasks.
ISAAC WATTS It's been a year of learning and I'd like to believe that I'm better for it. Despite some difficulti...
JEFFREY KATZENBERG Learning to trust is one of life's most difficult tasks.
ISAAC WATTS I love to travel with my family or my two best friends because I completely trust them. I forced my ...
JULIA SAWALHA It is never late to earn a degree, masters or doctorate. Learning has no age limit. All age groups a...
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA I know it may seem surprising to people, but learning dialog that has a conversational flow to it is...
DEIDRE HALL Learning is not the accumulation of knowledge, but rather, one thing only: understanding
DONNA JO NAPOLI At a certain level of learning and understanding,
right or wrong ain't the issue, but different...
TOBA BETA In addition to the research, I enjoyed learning French and assimilating the culture of another count...
JAMES CRONIN The ability to discern truth comes from learning, growing, and understanding the Bible.
ELIZABETH GEORGE Learning why one great book is just like every other great book is the key to understanding literatu...
JOHN MOSCHITTA Now the Ariekei were learning to speak, and to think, and it hurt.
CHINA MIéVILLE The intelligence is proved not by ease of learning, but by understanding what we learn.
"Keep Learning...because if you stop learning, you stop earning."
-:Pritish:-
PRITISH PATTANAIK Then why do you want to know?"
"Because learning does not consist only of knowing what we...
UMBERTO ECO The more you understand, the less you have to remember.
CRAIG A. MCCRAW Being present starts with recognizing when you are ignoring, denying or judging the present circumst...
SUZANNE MAYO FRINDT Because speaking while watching things has always been difficult for me, learning to drive a car and...
JOHN ELDER ROBISON Kindness has converted more sinners than zeal, eloquence, or learning.
FREDERICK W. FABER Kindness has converted more sinners than zeal, eloquence, or learning.
FREDERICK WILLIAM FABER It's like saying French shouldn't be taught because you don't understand it because it...
SAMUEL BARNETT If a wife is kept hostage at home without learning French, the whole family will be asked to leave (...
NICOLAS SARKOZY Dare to learn.
Dare to relearn.
Dare to outlearn.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA We must master many subjects in order to implement our dreams. Our personal journey begins by gather...
KILROY J. OLDSTER They seem to be very serious about learning French and they take it as long as they can.
CRAIG WATSON Everyone is pretty good at learning. Very few are good at doing.
RICHIE NORTON We can learn much from others and use that information to improve our world.
DEANA DRIVER Give a person a job you help them pay some bills, teach them how to find a career and you provide th...
MARK W. BOYER Difficulties were fires. If you kept them in check, you could learn from them. You simply had to kno...
JINAT REHANA BEGUM Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at 20 or 80. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.
HENRY FORD Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young...
HENRY FORD Children learn to speak Male or Female the way they learn to speak English or French.
JEFFREY EUGENIDES Almighty God teach you my dear brother...more wit and knowledge than to be taken in by a good for no...
CECIL WOODHAM-SMITH I'm using a part of my brain that I haven't used since school, learning the French grammar.
GWEN DAVIS Gardening is learning, learning, learning. That's the fun of them. You're always learning.
HELEN MIRREN Saying of the Prophet
Understanding
Speak to everyone in accordance with his degree of und...
IDRIES SHAH The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in ...
CARL ROWAN The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in h...
CARL ROWAN The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in h...
CARL T. ROWAN When you’re in love, you’re capable of learning everything and knowing things you had never dare...
PAULO COELHO Life is learning process. We must keep learning.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Chinese learning is an internal learning, but Western learning is an external one; Chinese learning ...
ZHANG ZHIDONG Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.
OSCAR WILDE Life is a process of learning and you are always learning Whether You Like It or Not. Lalit Bhojwani
LALIT BHOJWANI Learning how to think in the midst of fear is a lesson that everyone needs to learn.
VERONICA ROTH Learning how to work and learning how to fail is important.
JAMIE MOYER CONSCIOUS LEARNING IS EDUCATION , SUBCONSCIOUS LEARNING IS EXPERIENCE !
DR.PRASAD RAJHANS It's a learning experience because people are learning about different black people. It's educationa...
DARNELL JENKINS Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's ...
LEON TROTSKY That one is learned who has reduced his learning to practice.
HITOPADESA Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning ...
JIM ROHN Any fool can know. The point is to understand.
ALBERT EINSTEIN When children start learning math in school, they already have a basic understanding of the concepts...
ELIZABETH SPELKE Ultimately, LAMP will allow the means necessary for a teacher candidate to demonstrate their underst...
GREG MARCHANT Our findings should contribute to understanding the origins of learning disorders - the genetic caus...
ISABELLE PERETZ Defensively he is learning. He has fairly quick feet.
BRUCE MANOLA I speak of the Creator. He has walked with me often in my journeys, and it has been by learning to w...
ANASAZI FOUNDATION The first year is the hardest. Everyone is learning the defense. The goal is to get them to play fas...
BILLY DAVIS The opposite of learning is not unlearning,it is 'not learning'.Learning & unlearning both are impor...
LALIT BHOJWANI When I was living in Paris in the '80s, I used to go out with an American model who couldn't...
EDMUND WHITE Our guys are making so many strides. They're understanding the game better. ... But they're still le...
JOHN SMITH A world in which people with learning difficulties have access to the resources they need to live ha...
STEVE SILBERMAN Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all...
PELE Learning to draw or paint is a journey, not a destination.
JIM GENOVESE Feeling really safe as an actor is not a great thing because you're not learning or growing.
GABRIELLA WILDE Learning history is easy. Learning its lessons is almost impossible.
UNKNOWN Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning ano...
FLORA LEWIS ...once students have been taught that learning is tedious, difficult, and useless, they will never ...
ROBIN HOBB Don’t be too quick to leave the tree you are highly convinced of its future sweet fruits and comfo...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Learning how to cut trees down is intelligence; learning how to grow them is wisdom.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Learning from failures is better then learning from winning.
RITESH AMBASTHA Learning humor is like learning math - practice makes perfect
JIM PELLEY Learning to write comics is, in fact, so bloody difficult because it's such a weird form that it...
WARREN ELLIS All learning has an emotional base.
PLATO Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning
is perilous.
CONFUCIUS Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.
CONFUCIUS Learning without thought is labor lost. Thought without learning is perilous.
CONFUCIUS As a person, when I was seven or eight, my dad would try very hard to tutor me through school becaus...
DICHEN LACHMAN I had a lot of trouble with engineers, because their whole background is learning from a functional ...
BRIAN ENO Stringed instruments are good because you can get the sizes suitable for small bodies. The Suzuki me...
CAROL COMERFORD Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays you...
HENRY FORD Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young...
HENRY FORD Life is about learning; when you stop learning, you die.
TOM CLANCY Motherhood is an especially powerful experience because it involves learning under high-stakes condi...
KATHERINE ELLISON A win is a win. We'll take it. But we're not going to take it without learning anything from it. The...
ALFEE REFT I'm learning, but I'm getting better at it because I'm learning how to hear God in worsh...
MICHAEL W. SMITH So I am learning to pretend, to smile and nod, to display empathy I do not feel. I am learning to pa...
CHRISTINA BAKER KLINE For me, learning is a continuous process and an all-inclusive one - reading a book, learning a music...
SONU NIGAM Learning without thought is labor lost; and thought without learning is perilous.
CONFUCIUS Ask many questions. Life is a learning process. You are learner. Seek answers to the puzzles of your...
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.
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MARK HADDON But I said that you could still want something that is very unlikely to happen.
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MARK HADDON And Father said, "Christopher, do you understand that I love you?"
And I said "Yes," because lo...
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MARK HADDON ...and there was nothing to do except to wait and to hurt.
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MARK HADDON B is for bestseller.
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Consider me.
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inscrutable and grand.
I will...
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MARK HADDON .. a simile is not a lie, unless it is a bad simile.
MARK HADDON ... a rhetorical question. It has a question mark at the end, but you are not meant to answer it bec...
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MARK HADDON ... why I like timetables, because they make sure I don't get lost in time.
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CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant."] The original Hebrew ...
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CHARLES HADDON CHAMBERS Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite.
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CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON Of two evils, choose neither.
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON By perseverance the snail reached the ark.
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HADDON W. ROBINSON You cannot slander human nature; it is worse than words can paint it.
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CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON He was inspired, and yet he wants books!
He had been preaching for thirty years, and yet he wan...
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CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON Proxy religion involves too great a risk: you had better see to your soul's matters yourself, and le...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON The Man of Sorrows is now anointed with the oil of gladness above his fellows. Returned in triumph f...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON The more loftily we see Christ enthroned, and the more lowly we are when bowing before the foot of t...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON To rejoice in temporal comforts is dangerous, to rejoice in self is foolish, to rejoice in sin is fa...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON A child's cry touches a father's heart, and our King is the Father of his people. If we can do no mo...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON Rest time is the waste time. It is economy to gather fresh strength.
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON Said will be a little ahead, but done should follow at his heel.
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON It would be better to be deceived a hundred times than to live a life of suspicion.
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON Give yourself to reading.’... You need to read. Renounce as much as you will all light literature,...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON Care more for a grain of faith than a ton of excitement.
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON It is the tendency of deep feeling to subdue the manner rather than to render it too energetic.
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON The commonplace books of the old Puritans were invaluable to them. They would never have been able t...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON Groanings which cannot be uttered are often prayers which cannot be refused.
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON The Lord gets His best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON The Word of God will be to you a bulwark and a high tower, a castle of defense against the foe. Oh, ...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON Ought we not to look upon our own history as being at least as full of God, as full of His goodness ...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON You shall find it greatly mitigates the sorrow of bereavements, if before bereavement you shall have...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON I have now concentrated all my prayers into one, and that one prayer is this, that I may die to self...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON Repentance is as much a mark of a Christian, as faith is. A very little sin, as the world calls it, ...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON The usual tenor of a man's life, the dwelling of his soul, is the true test of his state.
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON This woman gained comfort in her misery by thinking GREAT THOUGHTS OF CHRIST.
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