Learning Quotes

The man whose acquisitions stick is the man who is always achieving and advancing whilst his neighbors, spending most of their time in relearning what they once knew but have forgotten, simply hold their own.
William James
The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Stobaeus - how vain is learning unless intelligence go with...
Edward gibbon - unprovided with original learning, unformed in...
It was an initiation into the love of learning, of learning how to learn, that was revealed to me by my BLS masters as a matter of interdisciplinary cognition - That is, learning to know something by its relation to something else.
Leonard Bernstein
It does not require great learning to be a Christian and be convinced of the truth of the Bible. It requires only an honest heart and a willingness to obey God.
Albert Coombs Barnes
Whoso neglects learning in his youth, Loses the past and is dead for the future.
Euripides, Phrixus
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
Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.
Robert J. Sawyer, "Calculating God", 2000
By learning to obey, you will know how to command.
Italian Prove
Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote.
Edward Young, Love of Fame (satire I, l. 89)
While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
Leoardo da Vinci
Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote.
Edward Young
A student is not a professional athlete. ... He is not a little politician or junior senator looking for angles... an amateur promoter, a glad - Hander, embryo Rotarian, caf - Society leader, quiz kid or man about town. A student is a person who is learning to fulfill his powers and to find ways of using them in the service of mankind.
Harold Taylo
No amount of study or learning will make a man a leader unless he has the natural qualities of one.
Archibald Wavell
Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning, and yearning.
Christopher Morley
By learning you will teach, by teaching you will learn.
Latin Prove
One of the things about being a grown - Up is learning how to act right even when you feel wrong.
Sean Stewart, Perfect Circle, 2004
Learning makes a man fit company for himself.
Thomas Fulle
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.
Wilma Rudolph, "Wilma: The Story of Wilma Rudolph".
Learning builds daily accumulation, but the prictice of Tao builds daily simplification. Simplify and simplify, until all contamination from relative, contridictory thinking is eliminated. Then one does nothing, yet nothing is left undone. One who wins the world does so by not meddling with it. One who meddles with the world loses it.
Lao - Tzu, Tao te Ching
Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
Alfred Edward Perlman
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.
Plato
Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. Learning to suspend your imagination and live completely in the very second of the present with no before and no after is the greatest gift a soldier can acquire.
Ernest Hemingway
The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.
Fred Astaire
When you make a mistake or get ridiculed or rejected, look at mistakes as learning experiences, and ridicule as ignorance.... Look at rejection as part of one performance, not as a turn down of the performer.
Denis Watley
Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.
W. Edwards Deming
Strange as it seems, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.
Stephen Vizinczey
I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning to sail my ship.
Louisa May Alcott
Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.
Robert Byrne
Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills, responsibilities, and rewards of grownups, and opportunites for action in all spheres of life. Adolescence should be a time of useful action, while book learning and scholarship should be a preoccupation of adults.
Eric Hoffe
Do not think that your Learning and Genius, your Wit or Sprightliness, are welcome everywhere. I was once told that my Company was disagreeable because I appeared so uncommonly happy.
Johann Georg von Zimmermann
One pound of learning requires ten pounds of common sense to apply it.
Persian Prove
With just enough of learning to misquote.
Lord Byron
Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them.
Lord Chesterfield
The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
B. B. King
There is no procedure for learning to write. What you must do, is learn to think.
S. Leonard Rubenstein, Pennsylvania State University, Chairman of the English Department, classroom lecture 1980
He who is afraid to ask is ashamed of learning.
Danish Prove
Learning is not attained by chance. It must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.
Abigail Adams