Learning Quotes

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
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
Oscar wilde - everyone who is incapable of learning has taken...
Helen kelle - i am not afraid of storms for i am learning how...
Bill Dickey is learning me his experience.
Lawrence Peter Berra
By learning you will teach, by teaching you will learn.
Latin Prove
Sarah ban breathnach - learning to live in the present moment is part of...
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.
Abigail Adams, 1780
Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.
Michael Masser and Linda Creed
Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.
William Arthur Ward
It takes ten pounds of common sense to carry one pound of learning.
Persian Prove
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.
Lord Chesterfield
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
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
George Bernard Shaw
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
The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
B. B. King
One pound of learning requires ten pounds of common sense to apply it.
Persian Prove
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
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.
John Morley
Making a wrong decision is understandable. Refusing to search continually for learning is not.
Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality
Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.
Confucius, The Confucian Analects
There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom.
Sir Francis Bacon
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
While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
Leoardo da Vinci
The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.
Plato
Liberty without learning is always in peril; learning without liberty is always in vain.
John F. Kennedy
A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.
Bob Edwards
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
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
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
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
It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.
Henry David Thoreau
No amount of study or learning will make a man a leader unless he has the natural qualities of one.
Archibald Wavell
Learning makes a man fit company for himself.
Thomas Fulle
There are three ingredients to the good life; learning, earning, and yearning.
Christopher Morley
By learning you will teach; by teaching you will learn.
Latin Prove
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
A handful of common sense is worth a bushel of learning.
Author Unknown
As long as you live, keep learning how to live.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time.
Hebrew Prove