Learning Quotes

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

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

The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.

Fred Astaire

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

Abigail Adams

There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom.

Sir Francis Bacon

He who is afraid to ask is ashamed of learning.

Danish Prove

They are the guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in that great business of ours, of learning how to be, to do, to do without, and to depart.

John Morley

There are three ingredients to the good life; learning, earning, and yearning.

Christopher Morley

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

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

Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

If we can dispel the delusion that learning about computers should be an activity of fiddling with array indexes and worrying whether X is an integer or a real number, we can begin to focus on programming as a source of ideas.

Harold Abelson

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

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 thing is clear to me. You cant know everything youd like to know. You cant do everything youd like to do. You cant read everything youd like to read. You must hold onto some things and let go of others. Learning to make that choice is one of the big lessons of this life.

Real Live Preache

Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo Clinic.

Roy Blount Jr.

Learning is ever in the freshness of its youth, even for the old.

Aeschylus

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".

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

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

George Bernard Shaw

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

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

Louisa May Alcott

Love is not a crime, denying it is. Having dreams is not a crime, not chasing them is. Making mistakes is not a crime, not learning from them is. Life is not a crime, not living it is.

Alexander Senturia

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

More important than learning how to recall things is finding ways to forget things that are cluttering the mind.

James Waddell Alexander, II

By learning you will teach; by teaching you will learn.

Latin Prove

Whoso neglects learning in his youth, Loses the past and is dead for the future.

Euripides, Phrixus

Bear in mind that brains and learning, like muscle and physical skill, are articles of commerce. They are bought and sold. You can hire them by the year or by the hour. The only thing in the world not for sale is character.

Antonin Scalia

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

By learning to obey, you will know how to command.

Italian Prove

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

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

It is in learning music that many youthful hearts learn to love.

Ricard

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

John F. Kennedy, speech prepared for delivery in Dallas the day of his assassination, November 22, 1963

Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.

Lyndon B. Johnson

If we value independence, if we are disturbed by the growing conformity of knowledge, of values, of attitudes, which our present system induces, then we may wish to set up conditions of learning which make for uniqueness, for self - Direction, and for self - Initiated learning.

Carl R. Rogers

The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do.

Nan Fairbrothe