quotes about Learning

Alexander Pope:
A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: there shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking largely sobers us again.probably the source of the saying, “a little knowledge is a dangerous thing”
Alvin Toffler:
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
Anne Frank:
Then, without realizing it, you try to improve yourself at the start of each new day; of course, you achieve quite a lot in the course of time. Anyone can do this, it costs nothing and is certainly very helpful. Whoever doesn’t know it must learn and find by experience that a quiet conscience makes one strong.
Arie de Gues:
Your ability to learn faster than your competition is your only sustainable competitive advantage.
Arthur Koestler:
Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.
Barbara Tuchman:
Learning from experience is a faculty almost never practiced.
Benjamin Jowett:
We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.
Blaise Pascal:
We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.
Buddha:
Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn’t learn a little, at least we didn’t get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn’t die; so, let us all be thankful.
Carl Rogers:
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.
Confucius:
Learning without reflection is a waste, reflection without learning is dangerous.
Daniel J. Boorstin:
Education is learning what you didn’t even know you didn’t know.
Douglas Adams:
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.
Eknath Easwaran:
Through meditation and by giving full attention to one thing at a time, we can learn to direct attention where we choose.
Eleanor Roosevelt:
I think somehow we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.
Epictetus:
It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
Eric Hoffer:
In times of change, learners inherit the Earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
Franklin D. Roosevelt:
A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
Franklin P. Jones:
You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.
Friedrich Nietzsche:
A person unlearns arrogance when he knows he is always among worthy human beings; being alone fosters presumption. Young people are arrogant because they always associate with their own peers, those who are all really nothing but who would like to be very important.
Gay Hendricks:
One of the first things a relationship therapist learns is that couples argue to burn up energy that could be used for something else. In fact, arguments often serve the purpose of using up energy, so that the couple do not have to take the courageous, creative leap into an unknown they fear. Arguing serves the function of being a zone of familiarity into which you can retreat when you are afraid of making a creative breakthrough.
George Santayana:
Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
George Wilhelm Hegel:
What experience and history teach is this — that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles.
Gerda Lerner:
We can learn from history how past generations thought and acted, how they responded to the demands of their time and how they solved their problems. We can learn by analogy, not by example, for our circumstances will always be different than theirs were. The main thing history can teach us is that human actions have consequences and that certain choices, once made, cannot be undone. They foreclose the possibility of making other choices and thus they determine future events.
Hannah More:
It is not so important to know everything as to appreciate what we learn.
Harry Emerson Fosdick:
Nothing else matters much — not wealth, nor learning, nor even health — without this gift: the spiritual capacity to keep zest in living. This is the creed of creeds, the final deposit and distillation of all important faiths: that you should be able to believe in life.
Heraclitus:
Much learning does not teach understanding.
Iris Murdoch:
We can only learn to love by loving.
John Dewey:
Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
John F. Kennedy:
Liberty without learning is always in peril and learning without liberty is always in vain.
John Powell:
The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
John Quincy Adams:
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
Marc Estrin:
Kindness trumps greed: it asks for sharing. Kindness trumps fear: it calls forth gratefulness and love. Kindness trumps even stupidity, for with sharing and love, one learns.
Mark Twain:
We wish to learn all the curious, outlandish ways of all the different countries, so that we can “show off” and astonish people when we get home. We wish to excite the envy of our untraveled friends with our strange foreign fashions which we can’t shake off. All our passengers are paying strict attention to this thing, with the end in view which I have mentioned. The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become until he goes abroad. I speak now, of course, in the supposition that the gentle reader has not been abroad, and therefore is not already a consummate ass.
Mark Twain – attributed in error:
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
Mortimer Adler:
The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.
Mortimer Adler:
The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.
Noam Chomsky:
If you go to one demonstration and then go home, that’s something, but the people in power can live with that. What they can’t live with is sustained pressure that keeps building, organisations that keep doing things, people that keep learning lessons from the last time and doing it better the next time.
Pablo Picasso:
I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
Peter Senge:
New insights fail to get put into practice because they conflict with deeply held internal images of how the world works … images that limit us to familiar ways of thinking and acting. That is why the discipline of managing mental models — surfacing, testing, and improving our internal pictures of how the world works — promises to be a major breakthrough for learning organizations.
Rabbinical saying:
Don’t limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.
Ralph Waldo Emerson:
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday.
Ralph Waldo Emerson:
Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
Ralph Waldo Emerson:
The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Richard Bach:
Learning is finding out what we already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers and teachers.
Richard Needham:
Strong people make as many mistakes as weak people. Difference is that strong people admit their mistakes, laugh at them, learn from them. That is how they become strong.
Robert Fulghum:
All I really need to know … I learned in kindergarten.
Rosabeth Moss Kantor:
Leaders are more powerful role models when they learn than when they teach.
Roseanne Barr:
The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.
Russell Baker:
An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious – just dead wrong.
Saint Francis de Sales:
You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; and just so, you learn to love by loving. All those who think to learn in any other way deceive themselves.
Samuel Smiles:
We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
Simone Weil:
The joy of learning is as indispensable in study as breathing is in running. Where it is lacking there are no real students, but only poor caricatures of apprentices who, at the end of their apprenticeship, will not even have a trade.
Theodore Parker:
The books which help you most are those which make you think the most. The hardest way of learning is by easy reading: but a great book that comes from a great thinker — it is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and with beauty.
Theodore Parker:
The books that help you most are those which make you think the 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.
Thomas H. Huxley:
Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever or whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.
Wendy Kaminer:
Only people who die very young learn all they really need to know in kindergarten.