Learning Quotes

How vain is learning unless intelligence go with it.
Stobaeus
Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.
William Arthur Ward
Theodore parke - the books that help you most are those which make...
Thomas merton - the least of learning is done in the classrooms....
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
Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.
Robert J. Sawyer, "Calculating God", 2000
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
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".
On the whole, age comes more gently to those who have some doorway into an abstract world - Art, or philosophy, or learning - Regions where the years are scarcely noticed and the young and old can meet in a pale truthful light.
Freya Stark
He that has acquired learning and nor practised what he has learnt, is like a man who ploughs but sows no seed.
Saadi, On the Duties of Society
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
Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
He who is afraid to ask is ashamed of learning.
Danish Prove
He not only overflowed with learning, he stood in the slop.
Sydney Smith
The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.
Morris Adle
The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
B. B. King
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
The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.
Fred Astaire
I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.
Louisa May Alcott
Learning is ever in the freshness of its youth, even for the old.
Aeschylus
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
Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
Benjamin Disraeli
As long as you live, keep learning how to live.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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
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
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
Making a wrong decision is understandable. Refusing to search continually for learning is not.
Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality
By learning you will teach; by teaching you will learn.
Latin Prove
Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote.
Edward Young, Love of Fame (satire I, l. 89)
I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.
Helen Kelle
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.
Albert Coombs Barnes
Bill Dickey is learning me his experience.
Lawrence Peter Berra
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
Health is worth more than learning.
Thomas Jefferson, letter to his cousin John Garland Jefferson, June 11, 1790
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.
Glenda Jackson
Strange as it seems, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.
Stephen Vizinczey
A little learning is a dangerous thing but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.
Bob Edwards
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