Learning Quotes

The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote.

Edward Young

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

Liberty without learning is always in peril learning without liberty is always in vain.

John F. Kennedy

Making a wrong decision is understandable. Refusing to search continually for learning is not.

Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality

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 least of learning is done in the classrooms.

Thomas Merton

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

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".

No amount of study or learning will make a man a leader unless he has the natural qualities of one.

Archibald Wavell

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

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

Abigail Adams, 1780

Learning makes a man fit company for himself.

Thomas Fulle

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

Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.

Chinese Prove

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

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

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

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

Colin Powell

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

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

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

Bill Dickey is learning me his experience.

Lawrence Peter Berra

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

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

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

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".

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

Persian Prove

Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning to sail my ship.

Louisa May Alcott

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

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

Lyndon B. Johnson

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

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

Leoardo da Vinci

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