Learning Quotes

The least of learning is done in the classrooms.
Thomas Merton
Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little worldings enjoy.
Edward Young
Plato - the learning and knowledge that we have, is, at...
Harold abelson - if we can dispel the delusion that learning about...
Life is like playing the violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
Samuel Butle
It meant that New York philanthropists, New York society, would now rediscover the library. ... that learning, books, education have glamour, that self - Improvement has glamour, that hope has glamour.
Vartan Gregorian
Oscar wilde - everyone who is incapable of learning has taken...
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.
Fred Rogers
The experience to be gathered from books, Though often valuable, is but of the nature of learning Whereas the experience gained from actual life, Is of the nature of wisdom And a small store of the latter Is worth vastly more than a stock of the former.
Samuel Smiles
All the time a person is a child he is both a child and learning to be a parent. After he becomes a parent he becomes predominantly a parent reliving childhood.
Benjamin McLane Spock
More important than learning how to recall things is finding ways to forget things that are cluttering the mind.
James Waddell Alexander, II
We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.
John Dewey
The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.
Morris Adle
Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.
Umberto Eco
Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
Chinese Prove
What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their natural and surest support.
James Madison
Experience without learning is better than learning without experience.
American
Whoso neglects learning in his youth, Loses the past and is dead for the future.
Euripides, Phrixus
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
My life is the story of a man who always wants to carry too much. My spiritual quest is the painful process of learning to let go of things not essential.
Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, December 16, 2002
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at 20 or 80. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
Henry Ford
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.
Lord Chesterfield
The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.
Fred Astaire
Learning to draw is really a matter of learning to see - - To see correctly - - And that means a good deal more than merely looking with the eye.
Kimon Nicolaides
Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
Alfred Edward Perlman
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
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
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
On the whole, age comes more gently to those who have some doorway into an abstract world - Art, or philosophy, or learning - Regions where the years are scarcely noticed and the young and old can meet in a pale truthful light.
Freya Stark
The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.
Carl Rowen
Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.
Helen Kelle
The process of learning requires not only hearing and applying but also forgetting and then remembering again.
John Gray, Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus
We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.
Lloyd Alexande
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.
Abigail Adams, 1780
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
I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.
Louisa May Alcott
A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: there shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking largely sobers us again.
Alexander Pope, An essay on Criticism
It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.
Henry David Thoreau
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
George Bernard Shaw