Quotes and anectdotes from the wise to the foolish, and the courageous to the drunk

learning

A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

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.

Philosophy is a kind of journey, ever learning yet never arriving at the ideal perfection of truth.

Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.

When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.

An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.

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.

Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.

No, I'm no enemy to learning it hurts not me.

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

The least of the work of learning is done in the classroom.

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.

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

If you desire ease, forsake learning.

In mine opinion, love is fitter than fear, gentleness better than beating, to bring up a child rightly in learning.

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.

Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty.

There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.

Young children were sooner allured by love, than driven by beating, to attain good learning.

A little learning is not a dangerous thing to one who does not mistake it for a great deal.

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.

In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.

Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat.

Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.

The audience, upon learning that the real Buffalo Bill was present, gave several cheers between the acts.

The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.

The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.

The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.

Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.

All the learning in the world cannot replace instinct.

Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.

Well, until this very day, I'm still learning.

You see, that is it with music, you never stop learning.

Change is the end result of all true learning.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence.

I am still learning.

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much.

A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.

It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.

Learning is its own exceeding great reward.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.

One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge.

There is no royal road to learning no short cut to the acquirement of any art.

Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.

We are a long time in learning that all our strength and salvation is in God.

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.

A little learning is a dangerous thing Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

Everything I learned I learned from the movies.

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

If your faith is opposed to experience, to human learning and investigation, it is not worth the breath used in giving it expression.

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.

One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.

The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all.

There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.

Kindness has converted more sinners than zeal, eloquence, or learning.

Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow.

Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers.

Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.

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.

Books have led some to learning and others to madness.

Directors who turn into big babies and shut out criticism stop learning.

He that knew all that learning ever writ, Knew only this - that he knew nothing yet.

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

I never learned from a man who agreed with me.

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.

It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.

Learning to trust is one of life's most difficult tasks.

Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.

Much learning shows how little mortals know much wealth, how little wordings enjoy.

Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote.

Only the other world has substance and reality only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.

Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.

Smatterers in learning are the most opinionated.

To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.

You aren't learning anything when you're talking.

I am just learning to notice the different colors of the stars, and already begin to have a new enjoyment.

The world of learning is so broad, and the human soul is so limited in power!

Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

The best way of learning to be an independent sovereign state is to be an independent sovereign state.

We are learning, too, that the love of beauty is one of Nature's greatest healers.

Year by year we are learning that in this restless, strenuous American life of ours vacations are essential.

Belief gets in the way of learning.

Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature which one would think, might dispose us to modesty.

A happy life is one spent in learning, earning, and yearning.

Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

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.

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

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

Learning how to operate a soul figures to take time.

Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.

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

Men of polite learning and a liberal education.

Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.

But the important thing about learning to wait, I feel sure, is to know what you are waiting for.

My entire learning process is slow, because I have no visual memory.

A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.

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

All are agreed, that the increase of learning and good morals are great blessings to society.

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.

I never found accents difficult, after learning languages.

I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship.

Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies.

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.

Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.

We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.

Words are but wind and learning is nothing but words ergo, learning is nothing but wind.