Learning Quotes
The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.Plato
With just enough of learning to misquote.Lord Byron
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
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".
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
Your work is first, learning is first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing.Orson Scott Card
It does not require great learning to be a Christian and be convinced of the truth of the Bible. It requires only an honest heart and a willingness to obey God.Albert Coombs Barnes
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
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
How vain is learning unless intelligence go with it.Stobaeus
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
There are three ingredients to the good life; learning, earning, and yearning.Christopher Morley
Whoso neglects learning in his youth, Loses the past and is dead for the future.Euripides
The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.B. B. King
The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.Morris Adle
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.Colin Powell
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
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.Abigail Adams, 1780
I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.Louisa May Alcott
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
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
The least of learning is done in the classrooms.Thomas Merton
Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote.Edward Young, Love of Fame (satire I, l. 89)
Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous - Calvin.Bill Watterson
Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.Jiddu Krishnamurti
A student is not a professional athlete. ... He is not a little politician or junior senator looking for angles... an amateur promoter, a glad - Hander, embryo Rotarian, caf - Society leader, quiz kid or man about town. A student is a person who is learning to fulfill his powers and to find ways of using them in the service of mankind.Harold Taylo
The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.Fred Astaire
The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.Carl Rowen
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
When you make a mistake or get ridiculed or rejected, look at mistakes as learning experiences, and ridicule as ignorance.... Look at rejection as part of one performance, not as a turn down of the performer.Denis Watley
By learning you will teach; by teaching you will learn.Latin Prove
We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.Ted W. Engstrom
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
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
Advertising is like learning - - A little is a dangerous thing.P Barnum
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".
He who is afraid to ask is ashamed of learning.Danish Prove
