Learning Quotes

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
Whoso neglects learning in his youth, Loses the past and is dead for the future.
Euripides
Stephen vizinczey - strange as it seems, no amount of learning can...
Plato - the learning and knowledge that we have, is, at...
A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.
Bob Edwards
Experience without learning is better than learning without experience.
American
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
George Bernard Shaw
Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.
Confucius, The Confucian Analects
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims: The Comic, 1876
Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
Alfred Edward Perlman
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 hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.
Fred Astaire
Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. Learning to suspend your imagination and live completely in the very second of the present with no before and no after is the greatest gift a soldier can acquire.
Ernest Hemingway
To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.
Jeremy Taylo
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
Advertising is like learning - - A little is a dangerous thing.
P Barnum
He not only overflowed with learning, he stood in the slop.
Sydney Smith
You can teach a student a lesson for a day but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives.
Clay P. Bedford
Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.
Edward Gibbon
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
Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
Chinese Prove
The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.
Theodore Parke
Teaching is more difficult than learning because what teaching calls for is this: to let learn. The real teacher, in fact, lets nothing else be learned than learning. His conduct, therefore, often produces the impression that we properly learn nothing from him, if by learning we now suddenly understand merely the procurement of useful information.
Martin Heidegge
Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
Samuel Butle
Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things First, a dissatisfaction with self - A felt void or need second, a decision to change - To fill the void or need and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change - The willful act of making the change Doing Something.
Dr.
The great lawyer who employs his talent and his learning in the highly emunerative task of enabling a very wealthy client to override or circumvent the law is doing all that in him lies to encourage the growth in the country of a spirit of dumb anger against all laws and of disbelief in their efficacy.
Theodore Roosevelt
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
Learning is finding out what you already know
Richard Bach
It is against the grain of modern education to teach children to program. What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self - Critical?
Alan Perlis
A handful of common sense is worth a bushel of learning.
Author Unknown
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
We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.
John Dewey
Making a wrong decision is understandable. Refusing to search continually for learning is not.
Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality
Learning makes a man fit company for himself.
Thomas Fulle
No man is wiser for his learning, wit and wisdom are born with a man.
John Selden
Your work is first, learning is first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing.
Orson Scott Card
Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time.
Hebrew Prove
Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
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