Home / Topics / Learning Quotes

Learning Quotes

Browse 5993 quotes about Learning.

Learning Quotes

“The purpose of learning to employ every minute properly is to unclutter our hours, deliver us of feverish activity and earn us true leisure.”

Purpose Hours Learning Minutes Activity Leisure

Author:Robert Updegraff

“It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.”

“Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.”

Business Learning Terrible Activity Insight Planning Judo

Author:Thomas Carlyle

“Therefore, teaching, talk and tale, however lucid or fascinating, effect nothing until self-activity be set up; that is, self-education is the only possible education; the rest is mere veneer laid on the surface of a child's nature.”

Children Self Learning Teaching Effects Activity Mere Surface Tales Fascinating Self Education Veneer

Book:Towards a Psychology of Education

Source: Towards a Psychology of Education

“The history of science, like the history of all human ideas, is a history of irresponsible dreams, of obstinacy, and of error. But science is one of the very few human activities-perhaps the only one-in which errors are systematically criticized and fairly often, in time, corrected. This is why we can say that, in science, we often learn from our mistakes, and why we can speak clearly and sensibly about making progress there. In most other fields of human endeavour there is change, but rarely progress ... And in most fields we do not even know how to evaluate change.”

“All good activities which encourage people to learn how to live with one another pleasantly and to develop a sense of humor improve living.”

People Learning Activity Improvement Sense Of Humor

Author:Leonard Carmichael

“Learning is more effective when it is an active rather than a passive process.”

Process Learning Activity Active Passive Effectiveness Passivity

Author:Kurt Lewin

“Now I begin to feel that that all that is important comes in quietness and waiting; activity should be only the working out, the digesting and putting forth of what one learned, so that one may become empty again to receive more.”

Feels Should May Important Spiritual Waiting Knowledge Learning Becoming Activity Quiet Empty Work Out Spiritual Wisdom Receiving Quietness Peace And Quiet

Author:Rodney Collin

“Programming is an explanatory activity.”

Learning Activity Programming

Author:Roman Harper

“In this new world, you and I make it up as we go along, not because we lack expertise or planning skills, but because that is the nature of reality. Reality changes shape and meaning because of our activity. And it is constantly new. We are required to be there, as active participants. It can't happen without us and nobody can do it for us.”

World Reality Happens Can Do Knowledge Learning Activity Shapes Skills Management Active Planning New World Expertise Participants

Book:Leadership and the new science: learning about organization from an orderly universe

Source: Leadership and the new science: learning about organization from an orderly universe