Learning Quotes
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
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
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
Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo Clinic.Roy Blount Jr.
It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.Henry David Thoreau
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.Abigail Adams, 1780
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
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at 20 or 80. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.Henry Ford
No amount of study or learning will make a man a leader unless he has the natural qualities of one.Archibald Wavell
Your work is first, learning is first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing.Orson Scott Card
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".
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
How vain is learning unless intelligence go with it.Stobaeus
Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous - Calvin.Bill Watterson
Experience without learning is better than learning without experience.American
Learning is finding out what you already know, Doing is demonstrating that you know it, Teaching is reminding others that they know it as well as you do. We are all learners, doers, and teachers.Richard Bach
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
Bill Dickey is learning me his experience.Lawrence Peter Berra
Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote.Edward Young
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
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
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
Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.Jean de La Fontaine
Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.Sarah Ban Breathnach
Learning is acquired by reading books but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading man, and studying all the various editions of them.Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
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
He not only overflowed with learning, he stood in the slop.Sydney Smith
A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.Bob Edwards
By learning you will teach; by teaching you will learn.Latin Prove
I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning to sail my ship.Louisa May Alcott
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
The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.Carl Rowen
While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.Leoardo da Vinci
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
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
There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom.Sir Francis Bacon
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
