Learning Quotes

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

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

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

Confucius, The Confucian Analects

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

Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself.

John Jay Chapman

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

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

Helen Kelle

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

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

Colin Powell

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.

Bob Edwards

Learning is finding out what you already know, Doing is demonstrating that you know it, Teaching is reminding others that they know it as well as you do. We are all learners, doers, and teachers.

Richard Bach

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

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

Albert Einstein

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