learning
Much learning does not teach understanding.
10 thoughts from Heraclitus
A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.
12 quotes from George Herbert
It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.
3 thoughts from Carl Friedrich Gauss
Learning is its own exceeding great reward.
38 other views from William Hazlitt
Learning never exhausts the mind.
27 quotes from Leonardo da Vinci
Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.
42 more sayings from Josh Billings
One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.
18 quotes from Washington Irving
Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge.
16 more sayings from David Hume
There is no royal road to learning no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
9 quotes from Anthony Trollope
Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.
14 wisdom & wit from Edward Gibbon
We are a long time in learning that all our strength and salvation is in God.
4 quotes from David Brainerd
While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
27 wisdom & wit from Leonardo da Vinci
Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.
42 sayings from Josh Billings
A little learning is a dangerous thing Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
43 more quotes from Alexander Pope
Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.
35 quotes from Rabindranath Tagore
Everything I learned I learned from the movies.
14 other quotes from Audrey Hepburn
He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
14 quotes from Joseph Joubert
He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.
135 other quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson
If your faith is opposed to experience, to human learning and investigation, it is not worth the breath used in giving it expression.
23 more sayings from E. W. Howe
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
46 quotes from John F. Kennedy
Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
10 other quotes from Novalis
No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
135 thoughts from Ralph Waldo Emerson
One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.
14 wisdom & wit from Joseph Joubert
The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all.
26 views from Harry S. Truman
There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.
15 thoughts from Christopher Morley
Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.
33 sayings from Thomas Huxley
Kindness has converted more sinners than zeal, eloquence, or learning.
2 wisdom & wit from Frederick William Faber
Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow.
2 other thoughts from William Pollard
Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers.
21 more quotes from Mignon McLaughlin
Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.
16 quotes from Vince Lombardi
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
26 quotes from Frank Lloyd Wright
A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.
115 other views from George Bernard Shaw
Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
3 other quotes from Petrarch
Directors who turn into big babies and shut out criticism stop learning.
5 quotes from Richard King
He that knew all that learning ever writ, Knew only this - that he knew nothing yet.
5 quotes from Aphra Behn
I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.
115 thoughts from George Bernard Shaw
I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
35 more quotes from Ernest Hemingway
I never learned from a man who agreed with me.
14 quotes from Robert A. Heinlein
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
115 other views from George Bernard Shaw
It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.
117 quotes from Henry David Thoreau
It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.
7 other wisdom & wit from Claude Bernard
Learning to trust is one of life's most difficult tasks.
3 sayings from Isaac Watts
Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.
15 wisdom & wit from Jean de La Fontaine
Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.
117 quotes from Henry David Thoreau
Much learning shows how little mortals know much wealth, how little wordings enjoy.
14 views from Edward Young
Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote.
14 quotes from Edward Young
Only the other world has substance and reality only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.
6 quotes from Abraham Cahan
Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.
24 more quotes from Lyndon B. Johnson
Smatterers in learning are the most opinionated.
22 more views from Samuel Richardson
To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.
8 sayings from Jeremy Taylor
You aren't learning anything when you're talking.
24 views from Lyndon B. Johnson
I am just learning to notice the different colors of the stars, and already begin to have a new enjoyment.
8 quotes from Maria Mitchell
The world of learning is so broad, and the human soul is so limited in power!
8 sayings from Maria Mitchell
Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.
4 sayings from Arthur Koestler
The best way of learning to be an independent sovereign state is to be an independent sovereign state.
2 quotes from Kwame Nkrumah
We are learning, too, that the love of beauty is one of Nature's greatest healers.
2 other thoughts from Ellsworth Huntington
Year by year we are learning that in this restless, strenuous American life of ours vacations are essential.
2 views from Ellsworth Huntington
Belief gets in the way of learning.
4 other wisdom & wit from Jeremy Collier
Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature which one would think, might dispose us to modesty.
4 wisdom & wit from Jeremy Collier
A happy life is one spent in learning, earning, and yearning.
2 quotes from Lillian Gish
Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.
36 quotes from Theodore Roosevelt
Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.
100 other quotes from Oscar Wilde
He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance one cannot fly into flying.
103 other thoughts from Friedrich Nietzsche
I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
29 sayings from Pablo Picasso
I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
13 other sayings from e. e. cummings
Learning how to operate a soul figures to take time.
6 other quotes from Timothy Leary
Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.
8 wisdom & wit from W. Edwards Deming
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
100 quotes from Mahatma Gandhi
Men of polite learning and a liberal education.
7 other quotes from Matthew Henry
Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.
15 sayings from William Penn
But the important thing about learning to wait, I feel sure, is to know what you are waiting for.
2 views from Anna Neagle
My entire learning process is slow, because I have no visual memory.
2 quotes from Georg Solti
A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.
57 more views from Will Rogers
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
11 quotes from Bruce Lee
All are agreed, that the increase of learning and good morals are great blessings to society.
2 wisdom & wit from Joseph Lancaster
I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.
74 more quotes from Winston Churchill
I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.
10 quotes from Louisa May Alcott
I never found accents difficult, after learning languages.
5 views from Vivien Leigh
I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship.
10 other quotes from Louisa May Alcott
Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies.
3 sayings from Leon Trotsky
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
5 more sayings from Abigail Adams
Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.
20 more views from George S. Patton
The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
18 quotes from Baruch Spinoza
The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.
52 quotes from Albert Camus
To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.
11 quotes from Bruce Lee
We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.
2 other quotes from Lucy Maud Montgomery
Words are but wind and learning is nothing but words ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
19 more thoughts from Jonathan Swift
A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.
75 more quotes from Benjamin Disraeli
I learned the value of hard work by working hard.
18 quotes from Margaret Mead
Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
68 quotes from Samuel Butler
No man is the wiser for his learning it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon but wit and wisdom are born with a man.
2 sayings from John Selden
Philosophy is a kind of journey, ever learning yet never arriving at the ideal perfection of truth.
5 quotes from Albert Pike
Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
75 other views from Benjamin Disraeli
When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.
3 other quotes from Lillian Smith
An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.
12 more sayings from Thomas a Kempis
Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.
96 other quotes from Benjamin Franklin
Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.
14 sayings from William Arthur Ward
I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.
2 more quotes from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.
45 wisdom & wit from Thomas Fuller
No, I'm no enemy to learning it hurts not me.
10 other quotes from William Congreve
Not to unlearn what you have learned is the most necessary kind of learning.
5 thoughts from Antisthenes
Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
96 other sayings from Benjamin Franklin
The least of the work of learning is done in the classroom.
12 quotes from Thomas Merton
The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.
5 sayings from Antisthenes
To make no mistakes is not in the power of man but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.
17 more views from Plutarch
We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
41 other views from Martin Luther King, Jr.
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
40 other quotes from William James
If you desire ease, forsake learning.
2 quotes from Nagarjuna
In mine opinion, love is fitter than fear, gentleness better than beating, to bring up a child rightly in learning.
6 quotes from Roger Ascham
It is no secret that the fruits of language study are in no sort of relation to the labour spent on teaching and learning them.
2 other quotes from Edward Sapir
Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty.
6 wisdom & wit from Roger Ascham
There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.
6 quotes from Roger Ascham
Young children were sooner allured by love, than driven by beating, to attain good learning.
6 other sayings from Roger Ascham
A little learning is not a dangerous thing to one who does not mistake it for a great deal.
3 other quotes from William Allen White
A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
26 views from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
7 other thoughts from Galileo Galilei
In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.
8 views from Charles Darwin
Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat.
9 more wisdom & wit from Audre Lorde
Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.
29 thoughts from Arthur Schopenhauer
The audience, upon learning that the real Buffalo Bill was present, gave several cheers between the acts.
7 wisdom & wit from Buffalo Bill
The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.
29 quotes from Arthur Schopenhauer
The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.
9 other quotes from Audre Lorde
The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
26 wisdom & wit from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
9 more quotes from William S. Burroughs
All the learning in the world cannot replace instinct.
2 quotes from Robert Ley
Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
2 more quotes from S. J. Perelman
Well, until this very day, I'm still learning.
3 more quotes from Dennis Brown
You see, that is it with music, you never stop learning.
3 more views from Dennis Brown
Change is the end result of all true learning.
17 more wisdom & wit from Leo Buscaglia
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
105 more sayings from Albert Einstein
Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence.
7 sayings from Pearl Bailey
I am still learning.
16 quotes from Michelangelo
If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?
105 more quotes from Albert Einstein
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
105 quotes from Albert Einstein
Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much.
5 views from William Godwin