Home / Topics / Learning Quotes

Learning Quotes

Browse 5993 quotes about Learning.

Learning Quotes

“There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.”

Source: Krishnamurti on Education

“In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.”

Source: You are the World: Authentic Report of Talks and Discussions in American Universities

“You sit at the board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand trembles to pick up the piece and move it. But what chess teaches you is that you must sit there calmly and think about whether it's really a good idea and whether there are other, better ideas.”

Thinking Heart Ideas Hands Moving Teach Learning Pieces Picks Chess Boards Leap Good Ideas Stanley Chess Pieces

Author:Stanley Kubrick

“He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming.”

Art Book Funny Reading Half Learning Refined Skimming

Author:Arthur Balfour

“The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn't think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential.”

“I made decisions that I regret, and I took them as learning experiences... I'm human, not perfect, like anybody else.”

Humans Made Decision Perfect Learning Regret Not Perfect I Regret Learning Experience

Author:Queen Latifah

“Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.”

Life Hours Learning Late Too Late Tissues

Book:Feast of Stephen

Source: Feast of Stephen

“We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.”

Brain Education Learning Generations Humorous Educational Educated Dressed Up Nowhere To Go Feudalism Getting Dressed Up

Author:Timothy Leary

“A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.”

Source: Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living

“A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.”

“As you think, so shall you become.”

Thinking Inspirational Motivational Motivation Growth Learning Greatness Athlete Work Out Swimming

Author:Bruce Lee

“The education of a man is never completed until he dies.”

Men Dies Education Technology Learning Teaching Civil War Carpe Diem Teaching And Learning Teaching Learning Lifelong Learning

Author:Robert E. Lee

“Every cook has to learn how to govern the state.”

States Learning Cooking Cooks Revolutionary

Author:Vladimir Lenin

“Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.”

Source: Last Chance To See

“In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.”

Law Learning Greater College Fool University Memorable Tolerate Golden Notebook

Book:Martha Quest: A Complete Novel

Source: Martha Quest: A Complete Novel

“That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.”

Source: The Four-Gated City

“You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.”

Source: You Don't Have to Be in Who's Who to Know What's What: The Choice Wit and Wisdom of Sam Levenson

“Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.”

“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.”

Inspirational Mind Important Motivational Success Leadership Courage Learning Successful Positive Bears Succeed Determination Perseverance Being Successful Resolve Resolution New Year Success In Life Key To Success Bad Day Road To Success Insperational Success And Failure Great Success Success Failure Famous Inspirational Motivational Success Succes Inspirational Success Best Success Achieving Success New Year's Resolutions New Years Resolution Achieved Success About Success Greatest Success Will To Succeed Definition Of Success Personal Success Attitudes And Success Formula For Success Succeeding In Life Hard Work Success Hard Work Comes Success Towards Success Perseverance Motivational Success Of Others Trying To Succeed Desire For Success Personal Desire Succeeding In Business Personal Motivation Strive For Success Mind Your Own Alcohol Recovery Motivational Recovery Motivational Softball Steps To Success Effort And Success Desire To Succeed Celebrate Success

Book:The Words Lincoln Lived By: 52 Timeless Principles to Light Your Path

Source: The Words Lincoln Lived By: 52 Timeless Principles to Light Your Path

“My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.”

“The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.”

“I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.”

Source: The Wit & Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Treasury of Quotations, Anecdotes, and Observations

“You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.”

Inspirational Matter Humor Motivational Growth Knowledge History Growing Up Learning Virtue Wise Growing Wise Words Personal Growth Lawyer Presidential Cute Grandmother Tall Grandfather Grandparent Grandchildren My Grandmother My Grandfather Grandpa Live And Learn Children And Grandchildren My Grandchildren Grandkids Parents And Grandparents Life Learning Being Irish Ireland And The Irish You Live And You Learn Your Grandmother Grandparents Day Children Growing Up Great Grandfather Grandchildren And Grandparents Grandparents From Grandchildren Change And Growth Mother And Grandmother Great Grandparents Funny Grandparent Grandmother And Grandchildren Mother Grandmother Funny Grandmother Being A Grandmother Happy Mothers Day Grandmother Funny Grandchildren Intellectual Growth Nana's And Grandchildren Fathers And Grandfathers Grandmas And Moms Being A Grandma Irish Proverbs Mothers Day Grandma Funny Irish Great Grandpa Grandfather Died Kids Inspirational Irish Family

Author:Abraham Lincoln

“I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.”

Source: Hour of Gold, Hour of Lead: Diaries and Letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1929-1932

“The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opposition than from his fervent supporters.”

Humans Politics Human Beings Learning Opposition Sensible Supporter Indispensable Statesmen Glowing Fervent Statesmanship

Book:The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy

Source: The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy

“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”

Source: The Works of John Locke: Essay concerning human understanding (concluded) Defence of Mr. Locke's opinion concerning personal identity. Of the conduct of the understanding. Some thoughts concerning reading and study for a gentlemen. Elements of natural philosophy. New method of a common-place-book

“The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.”

Source: The Pleasures of the Life

“When schools flourish, all flourishes.”

School Education Learning Educational Flourishing

Author:Martin Luther

“There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience.”

Inspirational Pain Happiness Learning One Thing Experience Painful Clever Being Happy Human Experience Learning Process Learning Experience Knowledge And Experience Always Learning Painful Experiences Knowledge Experience Experience And Learning

Author:Archibald MacLeish

“Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.”

“My heart is singing for joy this morning! A miracle has happened! The light of understanding has shone upon my little pupil's mind, and behold, all things are changed!”

Mind Heart Littles Light Joy Understanding Education Morning Learning Happened Teaching Changed My Heart Intellectual Singing All Things Miracle Intelligence Pupils Educating Others

Author:Anne Sullivan Macy

“I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.”

“People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.”

People Success Winning Education Steps Learning Inspirational Life Painful Insignificant

Author:Anne Sullivan Macy

“If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.”

“Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.”

“Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.”

“A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.”

Source: Thoughts

“Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.”

Source: Selected letters of Don Marquis

“The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.”

“Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.”

Knows Use Would Be Freedom Simple Learning Democracy Four Conversation Constant Simple Words

Author:Andre Maurois

“Learn to say 'no' to the good so you can say 'yes' to the best.”

Inspirational Inspiration Leadership Learning Entrepreneur Not Giving Up Saying No Saying Yes Learn To Say No

Author:John C. Maxwell

“You must learn day by day, year by year to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens.”

Inspirational Years Happens Left Enjoy Education Learning Memorable Horizon Famous Inspirational Things You Love Indignant New Horizons

Author:Ethel Barrymore

“In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love. The other 99 percent is due to our efforts.”

Inspirational Reality Work Effort Learning Blessing Percent And Love Accounts Intelligence Dues Serendipity Work And Love

Author:Peter McWilliams

“It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary... to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.”

Play Age Learning Childhood Middle Regret Old Age Birthday Fatherhood Arbitrary Middle Ages 40th Birthday Old Birthday Funny 40 Year Old Birthday

Author:Margaret Mead

“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”

Ifs Life Inspirational Dream Motivational Action Leadership Inspiring Business Leader Vision Morning Learning Positive Inspire Becoming Leadership Development Senators Great Leader Insperational Becoming More Leadership Training World Leader Business Leadership True Leader Being A Leader Doings Inspiring Leader Effective Leadership Inspire Others Great Leadership Leadership By Famous Leaders Best Leader Leadership And Management True Leadership Inspirational Military Motivational Leadership Leadership Skills Definition Of Leadership Good Leadership Leadership By Great Leaders Greatest Leadership Presidents Day Future Leaders Great Presidents Outstanding Leadership Powerful Leaders Leaders Motivational Leadership Roles Born Leaders Successful Leaders Empowering Others Outstanding Leaders Leadership Teamwork Personal Leadership Inspiring Presidential Leadership In Education Inspiring Others Great Managers Learning From Others Wise Leaders Participative Leadership Becoming A Leader Leadership And Service Presidential Leadership Greatness And Leadership Inspiration To Others

Author:John Quincy Adams

“The least of the work of learning is done in classrooms.”

Done Learning Classroom

Author:Thomas Merton

“I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.”

Littles Has Beens Might Attention Mistake Learning Advice Experience Paid Valuable Saved Glad Life Experience Might Have Been Good Advice

Author:Edna St. Vincent Millay

“Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn.”

Children Persons Turns Grows Results Education Learning Listening Empathy Attentiveness Learned Person

Book:For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence

Source: For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence

“Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?”

“Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.”