Learning Quotes
It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.Henry David Thoreau
There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom.Sir Francis Bacon
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
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.Abigail Adams, 1780
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
Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.Benjamin Disraeli
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
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at 2 or 8. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.Moshe Arens
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
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
With just enough of learning to misquote.Lord Byron
Learning is ever in the freshness of its youth, even for the old.Aeschylus
It meant that New York philanthropists, New York society, would now rediscover the library. ... that learning, books, education have glamour, that self - Improvement has glamour, that hope has glamour.Vartan Gregorian
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
Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote.Edward Young
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
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
Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo Clinic.Roy Blount Jr.
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
Learning is not attained by chance. It must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.Abigail Adams
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
Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills, responsibilities, and rewards of grownups, and opportunites for action in all spheres of life. Adolescence should be a time of useful action, while book learning and scholarship should be a preoccupation of adults.Eric Hoffe
How vain is learning unless intelligence go with it.Stobaeus
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
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
Learning makes a man fit company for himself.Thomas Fulle
Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous - Calvin.Bill Watterson
The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.Plato
If we can dispel the delusion that learning about computers should be an activity of fiddling with array indexes and worrying whether X is an integer or a real number, we can begin to focus on programming as a source of ideas.Harold Abelson
He who is afraid to ask is ashamed of learning.Danish Prove
Everyone who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.Oscar Wilde
Whoso neglects learning in his youth, Loses the past and is dead for the future.Euripides
Learning is finding out what you already knowRichard Bach
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
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.John F. Kennedy, speech prepared for delivery in Dallas the day of his assassination, November 22, 1963
Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.Michael Masser and Linda Creed
Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.Robert Byrne
