Learning Quotes

Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Samuel Butle

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

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

Euripides

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

Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time.

Hebrew Prove

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

Ricard

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

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

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 to draw is really a matter of learning to see - - To see correctly - - And that means a good deal more than merely looking with the eye.

Kimon Nicolaides

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

Louisa May Alcott

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

Abigail Adams, 1780

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