Learning Quotes

The least of learning is done in the classrooms.
Thomas Merton
Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.
Edward Gibbon
Archibald wavell - no amount of study or learning will make a man a...
Albert einstein - the only thing that interferes with my learning...
One pound of learning requires ten pounds of common sense to apply it.
Persian Prove
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
Everyone who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.
Oscar Wilde
Learning builds daily accumulation, but the practice 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.
Tao te Ching, 48. Lao - Tzu
There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom.
Sir Francis Bacon
Learning is not attained by chance. It must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.
Abigail Adams
Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous - Calvin.
Bill Watterson
Liberty without learning is always in peril learning without liberty is always in vain.
John F. Kennedy
What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers.
Martina Horner, President of Radcliffe College
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
Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote.
Edward Young
A handful of common sense is worth a bushel of learning.
Author Unknown
Life is like playing the violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
Samuel Butle
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
While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
Leoardo da Vinci
I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.
Helen Kelle
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
Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.
Confucius, The Confucian Analects
Learning is finding out what you already know
Richard Bach
If we wish to know the force of human genius we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning we may study his commentators.
William Hazlitt
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".
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
More important than learning how to recall things is finding ways to forget things that are cluttering the mind.
James Waddell Alexander, II
Leadership and learning are indispensible to each other.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Health is worth more than learning.
Thomas Jefferson, letter to his cousin John Garland Jefferson, June 11, 1790
Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.
William Arthur Ward
Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
Bill Gates, Business @ The Speed of Thought
Learning makes a man fit company for himself.
Thomas Fulle
It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.
Henry David Thoreau
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
Bill Dickey is learning me his experience.
Lawrence Peter Berra
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
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
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
Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo Clinic.
Roy Blount Jr.
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