Learning Quotes

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

Advertising is like learning - - A little is a dangerous thing.

P Barnum

Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.

Edward Gibbon

Liberty without learning is always in peril; learning without liberty is always in vain.

John F. Kennedy

No amount of study or learning will make a man a leader unless he has the natural qualities of one.

Archibald Wavell

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

Bill Gates, Business @ The Speed of Thought

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

Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little worldings enjoy.

Edward Young

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

Samuel Butle

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

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

Ricard

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

Making a wrong decision is understandable. Refusing to search continually for learning is not.

Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality

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