Learning Quotes

They didn't need the words, if they were willing to be silent long enough to learn to speak without ...

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent.

We have become obsessed with what is good about small classrooms and oblivious about what also can b...

Our attitude towards ourselves should be to be insatiable in learning and towards others to be tirel...

We have nothing to fear and a great deal to learn from trees, that vigorours and pacific tribe which...

What you don’t know won’t hurt you. A dubious maxim: sometimes what you don’t know can hurt you very...

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of kno...

Failure is just another way to learn how to do something right.

Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn.

In youth we learn in age we understand.

In terms of doing work and in terms of learning and evolving as a person, you just grow more when yo...

Never let your education interfere with your learning.

Supposing is good, but finding out is better.

When we set about accounting for a Napoleon or a Shakespeare or a Raphael or a Wagner or an Edison o...

I had a sudden notion of why history is such a mess: humans do not live long enough. We only learn f...

I believe that we learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to ...

Just open your eyes! I thought. These desperate poor are your gurus.

We shouldn't let our envy of distinguished masters of the arts distract us from the wonder of how ea...

Segregation shaped me education liberated me.

The customs are as formalised as an eighteenth-century minuet, and a child at the race's knee learns...

The ancient Jewish people gave the world the vision of eternal peace, of universal disarmament, of a...

I have no place in my life for someone who is sure he can do everything.

Teach what you know, regardless of when you have learned it -- teach what you learned yesterday sage...

If nothing else, school teaches that there is an answer to every question; only in the real world do...

Throughout the European Middle Ages and Renaissance, Latin was the language of learning and internat...

We need but little learning to live happily.

Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, gr...

Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.

For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, di...

Why did you measure the days and nights? To know. Sitting high above the city, Father Time realized ...

It’s very simple. As you grow, you learn more. If you stayed at twenty-two, you’d always be as ignor...

Some of the companies we helped start are names you know. An office supply company called Staples - ...

Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen - that stillness becomes a radiance...

What I learned on my own I still remember

I don't love studying. I hate studying. I like learning. Learning is beautiful.

Possibly, he was in a state of second growth and recovery, and was constantly assimilating nutriment...

In many ways, it was much, much harder to get the first book contract. The hardest thing probably ov...

I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you ar...

~I hope that in this year to come, YOU make mistakes. Because if YOU are making mistakes, then YOU a...

Every television program must be a complete package in itself. No previous knowledge is to be requir...

There is no way to help a learner to be disciplined, active, and thoroughly engaged unless he percei...

The scientific method," Thomas Henry Huxley once wrote, "is nothing but the normal working of the hu...

For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday ...

When students cheat on exams it's because our school system values grades more than students value l...

Armour belonging to someone else either chops off you or weighs you down or is too tight

A prudent man will always try to follow in the footsteps of great men and imitate those who have bee...

They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even when you don't know it

Years and years ago, I read a great interview with Jam and Lewis, the R&B producers, in which they d...

True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross...

By means of poetry all this suffering and effort could be transformed into dream; no matter how much...

I should learn to run, to wrestle, to swim, to ride horses, to row, to drive a car, to fire a rifle....

There will be danger; some of you may not live to complete your lessons. It's a risk you take. This ...

Do you train for passing tests or do you train for creative inquiry?

The kind of work that should be the main part of life is the kind of work you would want to do if yo...

Willingness to be puzzled is a valuable trait to cultivate, from childhood to advanced inquiry.

The social system is taking on a form in which finding out what you want to do is less and less of a...

How can a person have a sense of something if he does not have the germ of it within himself. What I...

And still they gazed and still the wonder grew That one small head should carry all it knew.

If you did not in your own mind distinguish between useful and erroneous information, then you were ...

You take a step, then another. That’s the journey. But to take a step with your eyes open is not a j...

I've learned all I'm ever going to learn from you.

From you I can learn things that nobody knows.

Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf. Survival firs...

The essence of training is to allow error without consequence.

Fatherhood to us was an act of passion, soon forgot; but not to Orem ap Avonap. Never guessing that ...

we have some good ideas here. But the only way to know if they’re workable is to try to make them fa...

My master wishes to see you," said the mounted man."When the planting's done," I said."Lord Barton i...

The only teacher that's worth anything to you is your enemy.

The courageous testimony of Dr. Faust that a maiden's smile is more precious than history, philosoph...

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

You came to me to learn the Pleasure of Life and the Pleasure of Art. Perhaps I am chosen to teach y...

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning i...

If you have no faith in yourself, then have faith in the things you call truth. You know what must b...

What? No defense? Any student of mine must be able to defend his ideas against an attack. No matter ...

If you fall, you fall," Elodin shrugged. "Sometimes falling teaches us things too." In dreams you of...

Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself.

A responsible Warrior is not someone who takes the weight of the world on his shoulders, but someone...

Then the Warrior realizes that these repeated experiences have but one aim: to teach him what he doe...

Whoever teaches learns in the act of teaching, and whoever learns teaches in the act of learning.

For he came to perceive that since people were his study, his teachers, the objects through which he...

I don’t really know what “intellectual” means, but if it means you’ve got a desire to learn, you’ve ...

The English seem to relish unsystematic learning of this kind, in the same manner that they embarked...

In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.

The best way to get kids to read a book is to say: 'This book is not appropriate for your age, and i...

For a human being, nothing comes naturally,' said Grumman. 'We have to learn everything we do.

It is better to enlighten men’s minds than to teach them to be obstinate in their prejudices.

Similarly with regard to truth, won't we say that a soul is maimed if it hates a voluntary falsehood...

Education isn't what some people declare it to be, namely, putting knowledge into souls that lack it...

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind. Therefore do not use compulsio...

I would teach children music, physics, and philosophy; but most importantly music, for the patterns ...

Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under co...

Those who don't know must learn from those who do.

Because a freeman ought not to be a slave in the acquisition of knowledge of any kind. Bodily exerci...

Knowing is not simply a material act, since the object that is known always conceals something beyon...

Learning to read and write changes lives; it means jobs, money, health, and dreams fulfilled.

In learning a language, when from mere words we reach the laws of words, we have gained a great deal...

You behold him at the age of four-and-twenty stuffed with learning enough to produce an intellectual...