Learning Quotes

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

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

Helen Kelle

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

He who is afraid to ask is ashamed of learning.

Danish Prove

The experience to be gathered from books, Though often valuable, is but of the nature of learning Whereas the experience gained from actual life, Is of the nature of wisdom And a small store of the latter Is worth vastly more than a stock of the former.

Samuel Smiles

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

The least of learning is done in the classrooms.

Thomas Merton

Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.

Alfred Edward Perlman

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

Learning is finding out what you already know

Richard Bach

Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.

William Arthur Ward

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

The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.

B. B. King

Whoso neglects learning in his youth, Loses the past and is dead for the future.

Euripides, Phrixus