Learning Quotes
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
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
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
What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers.Martina Horner, President of Radcliffe College
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
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.Abigail Adams, 1780
Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.Jean de La Fontaine
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 learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.Plato
Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.Robert J. Sawyer, "Calculating God", 2000
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.George Bernard Shaw
Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.William Arthur Ward
Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket and do not pull it out and strike it, merely to show that you have one.Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
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
Health is worth more than learning.Thomas Jefferson, letter to his cousin John Garland Jefferson, June 11, 1790
A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.Bob Edwards
Liberty without learning is always in peril; learning without liberty is always in vain.John F. Kennedy
Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.Bill Gates, Business @ The Speed of Thought
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
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
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
Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.Samuel Butle
Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote.Edward Young
Bill Dickey is learning me his experience.Lawrence Peter Berra
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
Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time.Hebrew Prove
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
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
With just enough of learning to misquote.Lord Byron
Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.Fred Rogers
Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.Chinese Prove
Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little worldings enjoy.Edward Young
The process of learning requires not only hearing and applying but also forgetting and then remembering again.John Gray, Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus
Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.Jiddu Krishnamurti
Leadership and learning are indispensible to each other.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Whoso neglects learning in his youth, Loses the past and is dead for the future.Euripides, Phrixus
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
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
