Learning Quotes

If poetry does not come as naturally as leaves to a tree, then it better not come at all.

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

Excellence is not an act but a habit. The things you do the most are the things you will do best.

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes, by virtue of their common womanhood, the property of all women.

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

It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.

Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!

It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.

Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.

We can only learn to love by loving.

Experience is a good school. But the fees are high.

School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is.

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.

Children learn how to make good decisions by making decisions, not by following directions.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

When the well is dry, we know the worth of water.

Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind.

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

If you're going to go through hell... I suggest you come back learning something.

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

Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.

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.

The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.

What we need to do is learn to work in the system, by which I mean that everybody, every team, every platform, every division, every component is there not for individual competitive profit or recognition, but for contribution to the system as a whole on a win-win basis.

In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.

EVERY MOMENT IN business happens only once. The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. The next Larry Page or Sergey Brin won't make a search engine. And the next Mark Zuckerberg won't create a social network. If you are copying these guys, you aren't learning from them.

It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.

The wisest mind has something yet to learn.

Whatever an education is, it should make you a unique individual, not a conformist; it should furnish you with an original spirit with which to tackle the big challenges. It should allow you to find values which will be your road map through life; it should make you spiritually rich, a person who loves whatever you are doing, wherever you are, whomever you are with; it should teach you what is important, how to live and how to die.

Learning is more effective when it is an active rather than a passive process.

Shakespeare, Leonardo da Vinci, Benjamin Franklin and Abraham Lincoln never saw a movie, heard a radio or looked at television. They had 'Loneliness' and knew what to do with it. They were not afraid of being lonely because they knew that was when the creative mood in them would work.

You don't understand anything unless you understand there are at least 3 ways.

Learning, while at school, that the charge for the education of girls was the same as that for boys, and that, when they became teachers, women received only half as much as men for their services, the injustice of this distinction was so apparent.

Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.

Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

No Child Left Behind' requires states and school districts to ensure that all students are learning and are reaching their highest potential. Special education students should not be left out of these accountability mechanisms.

The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained.

Gie me ae spark o' Nature's fire, That's a' the learning I desire.

Admitting Error clears the Score, And proves you Wiser than before

Cops and robbers resemble each other, so there's not a lot to learn in terms of learning the logistics of committing the crime or investigating the crime.

You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you.

A good teacher must be able to put himself in the place of those who find learning hard.

I've learned so much from my mistakes... I'm thinking of making some more.

An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.

We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world.

Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe.

Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for their victories.

It’s not information overload. It’s filter failure.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all.

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

Learning is not cumpulsory... neither is survival.

Fathers, like mothers, are not born. Men grow into fathers and fathering is a very important stage in their development.

The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.

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

You don't have to be a 'person of influence' to be influential. In fact, the most influential people in my life are probably not even aware of the things they've taught me.

I must learn to love the fool in me - the one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too many chances, wins sometimes and loses often, lacks self-control, loves and hates, hurts and gets hurt, promises and breaks promises, laughs and cries.

The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.

Life can give everything to whoever tries to understand and is willing to receive new knowledge.

Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies.

I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition back.

The law of love could be best understood and learned through little children.

The end of all learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love and imitate Him.

We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.

You teach best what you most need to learn.

I've concluded that genius is as common as dirt. We suppress genius because we haven't yet figured out how to manage a population of educated men and women. The solution, I think, is simple and glorious. Let them manage themselves.

An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.

If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.

Love must be learned, and learned again; there is no end to it.

The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more.

He who laughs most, learns best.

Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

The way to learn to do things is to do things. The way to learn a trade is to work at it. Success teaches how to succeed. Begin with the determination to succeed, and the work is half done already.

Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?

I've learned that every day you should reach out and touch someone. People love a warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the back.

Your best teacher is the person offering you your greatest challenge.

We must be silent before we can listen. We must listen before we can learn. We must learn before we can prepare. We must prepare before we can serve. We must serve before we can lead.

Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Teach him how to fish and he'll eat forever.

In order to act, you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

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

Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our view or conform to those of others and without distortion and self-deception. Would this not constitute a real revolution in culture.

Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.

I’ve learned not to worry about what might come next.

In order to learn, one must change one's mind.

Learning to trust is one of life's most difficult tasks.

If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.

Those things that hurt, instruct.

A cookbook must have recipes, but it shouldn't be a blueprint. It should be more inspirational; it should be a guide.

It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.

The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake - you can't learn anything from being perfect.

Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.

Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.

Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.

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.

Native ability without education is like a tree without fruit.

Thought is more important than art. To revere art and have no understanding of the process that forces it into existence, is finally not even to understand what art is.

Instead of a national curriculum for education, what is really needed is an individual curriculum for every child.

If we are to survive, we must have ideas, vision, and courage. These things are rarely produced by committees. Everything that matters in our intellectual and moral life begins with an individual confronting his own mind and conscience in a room by himself.

Now I begin to feel that that all that is important comes in quietness and waiting; activity should be only the working out, the digesting and putting forth of what one learned, so that one may become empty again to receive more.

Your world is as big as you make it.

Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

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.

It must be remembered that the purpose of education is not to fill the minds of students with facts... it is to teach them to think.

The brain is wider than the sky.

There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul.

Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail.

I never was good at learning things. I did just enough work to pass. In my opinion it would have been wrong to do more than was just sufficient, so I worked as little as possible.

There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.

The least of the work of learning is done in the classroom.

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.

Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.

We learn the rope of life by untying its knots.

The brighter you are, the more you have to learn.

Once in awhile you get shown the light, in the strangest of places if you look it right

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

You ain't learnin' nothin' when you're talkin'.

It is the true nature of mankind to learn from mistakes, not from example.

Tolerance can lead to learning something.

Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

The central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people. The truly human society is a learning society, where grandparents, parents, and children are students together.

Bear in mind that the wonderful things you learn in your schools are the work of many generations. All this is put in your hands as your inheritance in order that you may receive it, honor it, add to it, and one day faithfully hand it on to your children.

We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge.

I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I feel my fate in what I cannot fear. I learn by going where I have to go.

I'm glad I understand that while language is a gift, listening is a responsibility. (U.S. poet and writer, 1943- )

First, to be able to love, then to learn that body and spirit are one.

Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.

Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.

Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different.

Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.

Everyone has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases.

There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience.

We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.

Philosophy is a kind of journey, ever learning yet never arriving at the ideal perfection of truth.

Some questions don't have answers, which is a terribly difficult lesson to learn.

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Not to unlearn what you have learned is the most necessary kind of learning.

Acting is not about dressing up. Acting is about stripping bare. The whole essence of learning lines is to forget them so you can make them sound like you thought of them that instant.

A tough lesson in life that one has to learn is that not everybody wishes you well.

Pursue something so important that even if you fail, the world is better off with you having tried.

Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.

If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.

Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.

Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.

The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one.

A learned man is an idler who kills time by study.

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it - this is a hard lesson.

Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.

Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.

The most important tribute any human being can pay to a poem or a piece of prose he or she really loves is to learn it by heart. Not by brain, by heart; the expression is vital.

Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.

One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys.

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.

Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers.

Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy. At least you will, by such conduct, stand the be.

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

as the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep,so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily , to appreciate more lovingly , our own.

Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it; merely to show that you have one.

When I look back at all the crap I learned in high school, it's a wonder I can think at all.

The world of learning is so broad, and the human soul is so limited in power! We reach forth and strain every nerve, but we seize only a bit of the curtain that hides the infinite from us.

Besides learning to see, there is another art to be learned - not to see what is not.

More important than talent, strength, or knowledge is the ability to laugh at yourself and enjoy the pursuit of your dreams.

Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown."

Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.

I am learning that if I just go on accepting the framework for life that others have given me, if I fail to make my own choices, the reason for my life will be missing. I will be unable to recognize that which I have the power to change.

Women have to harness their power - it's absolutely true. It's just learning not to take the first no. And if you can't go straight ahead, you go around the corner.

The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.

We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.

If you are not learning while you're earning, you are cheating yourself out of the better portion of your compensation.

Learning should take place when it is needed, when the learner is interested, not according to some arbitrary, fixed schedule

Financial peace isn't the acquisition of stuff. It's learning to live on less than you make, so you can give money back and have money to invest. You can't win until you do this.

If a child can't learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn.

Learning is always rebellion... Every bit of new truth discovered is revolutionary to what was believed before.

All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.

Men who want to support women in our struggle for freedom and justice should understand that it is not terrifically important to us that they learn to cry; it is important to us that they stop the crimes of violence against us.

Life is about learning; when you stop learning, you die.

One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.

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

One goes through school, college, medical school and one's internship learning little or nothing about goodness but a good deal about success.

Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Start with God - the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.

A happy life is one spent in learning, earning, and yearning.

They know enough who know how to learn.

We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. One becomes in some area an athlete of God.

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

A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows.

People are constantly clamoring for the joy of life. As for me, I find the joy of life in the hard and cruel battle of life - to learn something is a joy to me.

As evolutionary time is measured, we have only just turned up and have hardly had time to catch breath, still marveling at our thumbs, still learning to use the brand-new gift of language. Being so young, we can be excused all sorts of folly and can permit ourselves the hope that someday, as a species, we will begin to grow up.

The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

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

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

Champions know that success is inevitable, that there is no such thing as failure, only feedback. They know that the best way to forecast the future is to create it.

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

I have learned that to have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts, for it is a love that has no exchange of payment.

There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.

Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.

With engineering, I view this year's failure as next year's opportunity to try it again. Failures are not something to be avoided. You want to have them happen as quickly as you can so you can make progress rapidly.

A major advantage of age is learning to accept people without passing judgment.

The wise learn many things from their enemies.

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty.

The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opposition than from his fervent supporters.

Some people are making such thorough preparation for rainy days that they aren't enjoying today's sunshine.

Love of learning is a pleasant and universal bond since it deals with what one is and not what one has.

We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance. Only by learning to love one another can our world be saved. Only love can conquer all.

The most necessary learning is that which unlearns evil.

True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.

In those parts of the world where learning and science has prevailed, miracles have ceased; but in those parts of it as are barbarous and ignorant, miracles are still in vogue.

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

It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

You must learn day by day, year by year to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens.

Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.

I hate being wrong, but I love it when I'm set straight.

Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.

I've known countless people who were reservoirs of learning, yet never had a thought.

Making mental connections is our most crucial learning tool, the essence of human intelligence; to forge links; to go beyond the given; to see patterns, relationships, context.

Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.

I've learned it's always better to have a small percentage of a big success, than a hundred percent of nothing.

The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.

Playing golf is like learning a foreign language.

I worked hard learning harmony and theory when I was growing up in Chicago in the 1920s.

When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.

I think it's so important to keep learning and keep your brain active.

Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.

Loneliness is not cured by human company. Loneliness is cured by contact with reality.

A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.

Learn to think impartially.

Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.

People learn something every day, and a lot of times it's that what they learned the day before was wrong.

More important than the quest for certainty is the quest for clarity.

In a world in which the total of human knowledge is doubling about every ten years, our security can rest only on our ability to learn.

Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way.

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

Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.

The spotlight will always be on me, but it's something I'm learning to live with as the years go by.

What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more leisure and less greed; more justice and less revenge; in fact, more of the opportunities to cultivate our better natures,

Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learned.

They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.

Learning and sex until rigor mortis.

There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.

I take away something from every role. I'm still learning and that's what life is about.

Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence.

The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others.

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.

The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate.

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

Only the thinking man lives his life, the thoughtless man's life passes him by.

So foolish is the heart of man that he ever puts his hope in the future, learning nothing from his past errors and fancying that tomorrow must be better than today.

It is always in season for old men to learn

The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents.

So long as a man remains a gregarious and sociable being, he cannot cut himself off from the gratification of the instinct of imparting what he is learning, of propagating through others the ideas and impressions seething in his own brain, without stunting and atrophying his moral nature and drying up the surest sources of his future intellectual replenishment.

The more the years go by, the less I know. But if you give explanations and understand everything, then nothing can happen. What helps me go forward is that I stay receptive, I feel that anything can happen.

There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.

Learning is its own exceeding great reward.

Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little wordings enjoy.

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

By keeping my hand in that, it's the way I keep learning. The main way you learn in medicine is by practicing and working with patients.

The person that loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.

Teaching is the royal road to learning.

We cannot swing up a rope that is attached only to our own belt.

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

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

Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature; which one would think, might dispose us to modesty.

Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.

There's nothing final about a mistake, except its being taken as final.

What we actually learn, from any given set of circumstances, determines whether we become increasingly powerless or more powerful.

Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.

That which anyone has been long learning unwillingly, he unlearns with proportional eagerness and haste.

I was learning the importance of names - having them, making them - but at the same time I sensed the dangers. Recognition was followed by oblivion, a yawning maw whose victims disappeared without a trace.

Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over again, and you will grow stronger until you have accomplished a purpose - not the one you began with perhaps, but one you'll be glad to remember.

I consider myself a student, both in my work and my life, and I'm constantly learning and I'm constantly grateful for that.

Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor the best opportunities; they will never come.

Friends are helpful not only because they will listen to us, but because they will laugh at us; Through them we learn a little objectivity, a little modesty, a little courtesy; We learn the rules of life and become better players of the game

A highbrow is a man who has found something more interesting than women.

Some on commission, some for the love of learning, some because they have nothing better to do or because they hope these walls of books will deaden the drumming of the demon in their ears.

Research shows that you begin learning in the womb and go right on learning until the moment you pass on. Your brain has a capacity for learning that is virtually limitless, which makes every human a potential genius.

Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with him.

The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practised, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. . . . God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

Always keep learning. It keeps you young.

There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.

Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand.

Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.

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.

Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter.

I learn by going where I have to go.

When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

Our attitude towards ourselves should be 'to be satiable in learning' and towards others 'to be tireless in teaching.

Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point, you ain't interesting

Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age; and if you understand that old age has wisdom for its food, you will so conduct yourself in youth that your old age will not lack for nourishment.

Education is not the piling on of learning information data facts skills or abilities that's training or instruction but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

To be fond of learning is near to wisdom; to practice with vigor is near to benevolence; and to be conscious of shame is near to fortitude. He who knows these three things

Sometimes when learning comes before experience It doesn't make sense right away.

Learning is finding out what you already know.

All of childhood's unanswered questions must finally be passed back to the town and answered there. Heroes and bogey men, values and dislikes, are first encountered and labeled in that early environment. In later years they change faces, places and maybe races, tactics, intensities and goals, but beneath those penetrable masks they wear forever the stocking-capped faces of childhood.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing.

The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown.

Teach your child to hold his tongue; he'll learn fast enough to speak.

All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.

Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty.

If all this happened to you what paradigm might you develop? How might that paradigm affect you in terms of your life from that point on? What does this tell you about Abe? There are no failures, only lessons to be learned.

Everyone has to learn to think differently, bigger, to open to possibilities.

From the first, I made my learning, what little it was, useful every way I could.

Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.

If you feel that you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you.

In the realm of ideas, it is better to let the mind sally forth, even if some precious preconceptions suffer a mauling.

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.

To change skins, evolve into new cycles, I feel one has to learn to discard. If one changes internally one should not continue to live with the same objects. They reflect one's mind and psyche of yesterday. I throw away what has no dynamic, living use.

I still have a lot to learn - about the business, about music, and about myself. Its exciting.

Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?

I grew up in a time when being a musician and learning to be a musician was actually very wonderful.

It is better to have a little than nothing.

Thinking is like loving and dying. Each of us must do it for himself.

We learn simply by the exposure of living, and what we learn most natively is the tradition in which we live.

And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, that one small head could carry all he knew.

It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.

Together we have come to realize that for most men the right to learn is curtailed by the obligation to attend school.

For all his learning or sophistication, man still instinctively reaches towards that force beyond. Only arrogance can deny its existence, and the denial falters in the face of evidence on every hand. In every tuft of grass, in every bird, in every opening bud, there it is.

You cannot help but learn more as take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is and old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it.

And still I am learning.

Learning makes a good man better and an ill man worse.

From error to error one discovers the entire truth.

He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning.

Don't just learn something from every experience, learn something positive.

The best way to learn to be a lady is to see how other ladies do it.

He not only overflowed with learning, but stood in the slop.

Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.

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

In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

The ideal condition would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct; but since we are all likely to go astray, The reasonable thing is to learn from those who can teach

Learning is the discovery that something is possible

We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.