Learning Quotes
We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.Ted W. Engstrom
Whoso neglects learning in his youth, Loses the past and is dead for the future.Euripides, Phrixus
No man is wiser for his learning, wit and wisdom are born with a man.John Selden
How vain is learning unless intelligence go with it.Stobaeus
Liberty without learning is always in peril learning without liberty is always in vain.John F. Kennedy
Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.Michael Masser and Linda Creed
Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.W. Edwards Deming
With just enough of learning to misquote.Lord Byron
Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.Edward Gibbon
Health is worth more than learning.Thomas Jefferson, letter to his cousin John Garland Jefferson, June 11, 1790
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 love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.Jean de La Fontaine
Learning without thought is labor lost thought without learning is perilous.Confucius
Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked.Lord Chesterfield
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
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
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.Abigail Adams, 1780
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
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
The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do.Nan Fairbrothe
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
To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.Jeremy Taylo
Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.Lyndon B. Johnson
The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.Carl Rowen
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
Much learning does not teach understanding.Heraclitus, On the Universe
By learning you will teach, by teaching you will learn.Latin Prove
By learning you will teach; by teaching you will learn.Latin Prove
We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.John Dewey
Learning builds daily accumulation, but the prictice 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.Lao - Tzu, Tao te Ching
Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.Samuel Butle
He who is afraid to ask is ashamed of learning.Danish Prove
The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.Plato
Advertising is like learning - - A little is a dangerous thing.P Barnum
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
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
