Learning Quotes

Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.

William Arthur Ward

We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.

John Dewey

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

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

Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

One thing is clear to me. You cant know everything youd like to know. You cant do everything youd like to do. You cant read everything youd like to read. You must hold onto some things and let go of others. Learning to make that choice is one of the big lessons of this life.

Real Live Preache

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

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

Persian Prove

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

Abigail Adams

All the time a person is a child he is both a child and learning to be a parent. After he becomes a parent he becomes predominantly a parent reliving childhood.

Benjamin McLane Spock

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

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

Bear in mind that brains and learning, like muscle and physical skill, are articles of commerce. They are bought and sold. You can hire them by the year or by the hour. The only thing in the world not for sale is character.

Antonin Scalia

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

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

If we value independence, if we are disturbed by the growing conformity of knowledge, of values, of attitudes, which our present system induces, then we may wish to set up conditions of learning which make for uniqueness, for self - Direction, and for self - Initiated learning.

Carl R. Rogers

To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.

Jeremy Taylo

By learning you will teach; by teaching you will learn.

Latin Prove

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

Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.

Lyndon B. Johnson

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)

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

Carl Rowen

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

Edward Gibbon

It is in learning music that many youthful hearts learn to love.

Ricard

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

Albert Einstein

Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.

Robert J. Sawyer, "Calculating God", 2000

Health is worth more than learning.

Thomas Jefferson, letter to his cousin John Garland Jefferson, June 11, 1790

Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.

Umberto Eco

He who is afraid to ask is ashamed of learning.

Danish Prove

Learning makes a man fit company for himself.

Thomas Fulle

The least of learning is done in the classrooms.

Thomas Merton

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

Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.

W. Edwards Deming

As long as you live, keep learning how to live.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

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".

It takes ten pounds of common sense to carry one pound of learning.

Persian Prove