Learning Quotes

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

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

Bob Edwards

One pound of learning requires ten pounds of common sense to apply it.

Persian Prove

There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom.

Sir Francis Bacon

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

George Bernard Shaw

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".

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

Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.

William Arthur Ward

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

Learning is finding out what you already know

Richard Bach

Learning is not attained by chance. It must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.

Abigail Adams

Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time.

Hebrew Prove

In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the parents, but the attempt always fails because cultural transmission is geared to learning, not D. N. A.

Gregory Bateson, "Mind and Matter".

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

Confucius

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

Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket and do not pull it out and strike it, merely to show that you have one.

Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield

Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.

Edward Gibbon

More important than learning how to recall things is finding ways to forget things that are cluttering the mind.

James Waddell Alexander, II

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

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

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

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

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

Plato

To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.

Jeremy Taylo

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

Euripides

Learning makes a man fit company for himself.

Thomas Fulle

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

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

Abigail Adams, 1780

The man whose acquisitions stick is the man who is always achieving and advancing whilst his neighbors, spending most of their time in relearning what they once knew but have forgotten, simply hold their own.

William James

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

Carl Rowen

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

Edward Young

No man is wiser for his learning, wit and wisdom are born with a man.

John Selden

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

Samuel Butle

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

Colin Powell

There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning, and yearning.

Christopher Morley

It was an initiation into the love of learning, of learning how to learn, that was revealed to me by my BLS masters as a matter of interdisciplinary cognition - That is, learning to know something by its relation to something else.

Leonard Bernstein