Learning - Qutes

A day of travelling will bring a basketful of learning. - Vietnamese Proverb

A little learning is not a dangerous thing to one who does not mistake it for a great deal. - William Allen White

A man of learning who makes no use of what he knows, is like a cloud which gives no rain. - George Pope Morris

A person who can create ideas worthy of note is a person who has learned much from others. - Konosuke Matsushita

All learning has an emotional base. - Plato

All learning is derived from things previously known. - Aristotle

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing you can do is keep your mind young. - Mark Twain

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn. - Benjamin Franklin

Belief gets in the way of learning. - Robert Heinlein

By seeking and blundering we learn. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Change is the end result of all true learning. - Leo Buscaglia

Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow. - Anthony D'Angelo

Developing a desire to learn is the kindling point of all classroom achievement. - Robert John Meehan

Do the best you can in every task, no matter how unimportant it may seem at the time. No one learns more about a problem than the person at the bottom. - Unknown

Don’t learn the tricks of the trade. Learn the trade. - Unknown

Don't let your learning lead to knowledge. Let your learning lead to action. - Jim Rohn

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

Every student can learn, just not on the same day, or the same way. - George Evans

Expecting all children the same age to learn from the same materials is like expecting all children the same age to wear the same size clothing. - Madeline Hunter

For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them. - Aristotle

Get over the idea that only children should spend their time in study. Be a student so long as you still have something to learn, and this will mean all your life. - Henry L. Doherty

Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results. - John Dewey

God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons we could not learn in any other way. The way we learn those lessons is not to deny the feelings but to find the meanings underlying them. - Stanley Lindquist

He is not likely to learn who is not willing to be taught; for the learner has something to do, as well as the teacher. - Benjamin Whichcote

He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger. - Confucius

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying. - Friedrich Nietzsche

I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma. - Eartha Kitt

I don’t love studying. I hate studying. I like learning. Learning is beautiful. - Natalie Portman

I grow old learning something new every day. - Solon

I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me. - Dudley Field Malone

If learning is an act of exploration, then technology equips the explorer for the journey of a lifetime. - Unknown

If you are not willing to learn, no one can help you. If you are determined to learn, no one can stop you. - Unknown

If we succeed in giving the love of learning, the learning itself is sure to follow. - John Lubbock

In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him, and in that I am his pupil. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

In learning you will teach, in teaching you will learn. - Phil Collins

In order to learn, one must change one’s mind. - Orson Scott Card

In order to learn you must be prepared to take a risk and tolerate a little randomness in the world. - Pagels

In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists. - Eric Hoffer

It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies – seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends. - Charles Caleb Colton

It is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows. - Epictetus

It is only by amusing oneself that one can learn. - Anatole France

It is what we think we know that keeps us from learning. - Chester Barnard

It turns out that saying, "You can't teach an old dog new tricks," doesn't apply to humans. Research now reveals that our brains are continuously changing, producing new growth, making new connections. It doesn't matter how old we are, we are still under construction, learning as we go along. - Dana Lightman

Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can – there will always come a time when you will be grateful you did. - Sarah Caldwell

Learn from your mistakes and build on your successes. - John Calhoun

Learn not only to find what you like, learn to like what you find. - Anthony D'Angelo

Learn to labour and to wait. - Henry Wadworth Longfellow

Learn to see in another’s calamity the ills which you should avoid. - Unknown

Learn to value everything. For instance, the candle is useless when you have the light bulb. But it becomes precious when electricity is suddenly cut off. - Unknown

Learn to pause or nothing worthwhile can catch up with you. - Dorothy Ballard

Learn to see things backwards, inside out, and upside down. - John Heider

Learn to use the word ‘impossible’ with the greatest caution. - Unknown

Learn, as if never overtaking your object, and yet as if apprehensive of losing it. - Confucius

Learning is a gift. Even when pain is your teacher. - Maya Watson

Learning is a plant that grows in all climes. - Akbar

Learning is a treasure no thief can touch. - Chinese Proverb

Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.? - Chinese Proverb

Learning is better than house and land. - David Garrick

Learning is discovering that something is possible. - Unknown

Learning is its own exceeding great reward. - William Hazlitt

Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skilful hands; in unskilful, the most mischievous. - Alexander Pope

Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back. - Chinese proverb

Learning is not attained by chance. It must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence. - Abigail Adams

Learning is not automatic. It comes with seeking and searching, with reading and watching, with thinking, praying, and listening. - Marion D. Hanks

Learning is not child’s play; we cannot learn without pain. - Aristotle

Learning is not confined to a classroom and is not imparted solely by people whom we designate as teachers. - Leo Buscaglia

Learning is the indispensable investment required for success in the ‘information age’. - Unknown

Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn. - T. H. White

Learning is weightless – a treasure you can always carry easily. - Chinese Proverb

Learning makes a good man better and an ill man worse. - Thomas Fuller

Learning makes a man fit company for himself. - Thomas Fuller

Learning the hard way makes the lessons more valuable. - Monty Overson

Learning to live is learning to let go. - Sogyal Rinpoche

Learning without thought is labour lost; thought without learning is perilous. - Confucius

Learning, like money, may be of so base a coin, as to be utterly void of use; or, if sterling, may require good management to make it serve the purpose of sense or happiness. - William Shenstone

Learning, though it is useful when we know how to make a right use of it, yet, considered as in our own power, and to those who trust to it without seeking a superior guidance ... it is indeed like a sword in a madman's hands, which gives him the more opportunity of hurting himself than others. - John Newton

Live and learn. - American Proverb

Live to learn and you will really learn to live. - John C. Maxwell

Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown. - Claude Bernard

Man is an imitative animal. This quality is the germ of all education in him. From his cradle to his grave he is learning to do what he sees others do. - Thomas Jefferson

Much learning does not teach understanding. - Heraclitus

Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket-watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked. - Unknown

Never stop learning. - unknown

No man is so learned but he may be taught; neither is any one so illiterate but he may teach. - William Scott Downey

No one is exempt from the rule that learning occurs through recognition of error. - Alexander Lowen

No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it. - Peter F. Drucker

Nothing we learn in this world is ever wasted. - Unknown

Of all evil things, the least quantity is to be borne, but of learning and knowledge, the more a man hath, the better he can bear it. - Bion

One destitute of wealth is not destitute, he is indeed rich, but the man devoid of learning is destitute in every way. - Chanakya

One often learns more from ten days of agony than ten years of contentment. - Merle Shain

Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient. - Eugene S. Wilson

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

People learn more on their own rather than being force fed. - Socrates

Personally, I am always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught. - Winston Churchill

Play is our brain’s favourite way of learning. - Diane Ackerman

Shall I tell you a secret of a true scholar? It is this: every man I meet is my master in some point and in that I learn from him. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing. - Thomas Huxley

Some will never learn anything because they understand everything too soon. - T. Blount

Sometimes we learn more from a man’s errors than from his virtues. - Henry Wadworth Longfellow

Sooner or later, a man, if he is wise, discovers that life is a mixture of good days and bad, victory and defeat, give and take. He learns that it doesn’t pay to let things get his goat; that he must let some things go over his head like water off a duck's back. He learns that carrying a chip on his shoulder is the quickest way to get into a fight. He learns that buck-passing acts as a boomerang. He learns that carrying tales and gossip about others is the surest way to become unpopular. He learns that giving others a mental lift by showing appreciation and praise is the best way to lift his own spirits. He learns that the world will not end when he fails or makes an error; that there is always another day and another chance. He learns that listening is frequently more important than talking, and that he can often make a friend by letting the other fellow tell his troubles. He learns that all men have burnt toast for breakfast now and then, and that he shouldn’t let their grumbling get him down. He learns that people are not any more difficult to get along with in one place than another, and that ‘getting along’ depends about 98 per cent on his own behavior. - Unknown

Spending a thousand hours in learning good is not enough. But spending less than an hour learning evil is far too long. - Unknown

Teenagers learn best by doing things, they learn best in teams and they learn best by doing things for real - all the opposite of what mainstream schooling actually does. - Geoff Mulgan

That’s what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we’ve changed because of it and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way, is winning. - Richard Bach

That’s what learning is. You suddenly understand something you have understood all your life, but in a new way. - Doris Lessing

The capacity to learn is a gift; the ability to learn is a skill; the willingness to learn is a choice. - Brian Herbert

The chief art of learning is to attempt but a little at a time. - John Locke

The good thing about learning from others is that you increase your knowledge without taking away anything from those who passed you their knowledge. - Unknown

The good pupils are often brilliant, and they keep you on your toes and take you to the limits of your knowledge. The worst pupils provide a unique insight into the criminal mind. - John le Carre

The greatest enemy of learning is knowing. - John Maxwell

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. - Alvin Toffler

The important point is that learning is not a fixed process, unvarying in all learners. Not only is the human organism characterized by a remarkable plasticity (that is, a striking ability to change), but it is also characterized by a variety of ways of thinking and learning. - Guy Lefrancois

The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn. - John Lubbock

The learned man has always riches within himself. - Phaedrus

The learned man is only useful to the learned. - Jean Paul R. Richter

The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot. - Audre Lorde

The learning which is got by one's own observation and experience, is as far beyond that which is got by precept, as the knowledge of a traveller exceeds that which is got by a map. - J. Tillinghast

The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history. - Carl T. Rowan

The light of learning should be the light of truth. It should illumine the darkness of error, and a certain beacon to conduct us through the concealed, the rough, and intricate ways of the world. - Acton

The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn. - Henry S. Haskins

The more I learn, the more I realize I don’t know. - Albert Einstein

The man who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is uneducated the day after. - Newton Baker

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go. - Dr. Seuss

The most learned are often the most narrow minded. - William Hazlitt

The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue. - Antisthenes

The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live. - Mortimer Adler

The wisest mind hath something yet to learn. - George Santayana

There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men, who talk in a road, according to the notions they have borrowed and the prejudices of their education. - John Locke

There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure – all your life. - John W. Gardner

To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance. - Jeremy Taylor

To be silent oft is to learn. - Edward Counsel

To endeavour all one's days to fortify one's mind with learning and philosophy, is to spend so much in armour that one has nothing left to defend. - R. Dodsley

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something. - Thomas H. Huxley

We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another – until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices. - Richard Nixon

We learn as much by others’ failings as by their teachings. Examples of imperfection is just as useful for achieving perfection as are models of competence and perfection. - Magdeleine Sable

We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself. - Lloyd Alexander

What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye. - Horatius

We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn. - Peter Drucker

We often learn – by unlearning. - Edward Counsel

What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end, there are no certain answers. - Martina Horner

When house and land are gone and spent, then learning is most excellent. - Unknown

When I walk along with two others, from at least one I will be able to learn. - Confucius

When one seeks to know the nature of Reality by whatever means, he at least is rewarded by learning more of himself. - Validivar

Where my reason, imagination or interest were not engaged, I would not or I could not learn. - Winston Churchill

Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future. - Euripides

With too much pride a man cannot learn a thing. In and of itself, learning teaches you how foolish you are. - Criss Jami

You can learn a line from a win and a book from a defeat. - Paul Brown

You can learn a lot from people who view the world differently than you do. - Anthony D'Angelo

You can learn from anyone even your enemy. - Ovid

You can learn something from everybody in every situation. But you must also learn how to tell which lessons are the ones to be remembered. - Unknown

You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives. - Clay P. Bedford

You can't learn anything when you're trying to look like the smartest person in the room. - Barbara Kingsolver

You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing and falling over. - Richard Branson

You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something. - George Bernard Shaw

You learn to build your roads on today, because tomorrow’s ground is too uncertain for plans, and futures have a way of falling down in mid-flight. - Unknown

You live and learn. Or you don't live long. - Robert A. Heinlein

You will learn more about a road by travelling it than by consulting all the maps in the world. - Unknown

You will only fail to learn if you do not learn from failing. Stella Adler