Skip to main content

Learning Is Quotes

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

The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.
- Mortimer Adler

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

[A] disciple...can never imitate his guide's steps. You have your own way of living your life, of dealing with problems, and of winning. Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself.
- Paulo Coelho

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

We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.
- Plato

Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain.
- Aristotle

Learning is finding out what you already know.
- Richard Bach

That's what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we've changed because of it, and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way is winning.
- Richard Bach

The conquest of learning is achieved through the knowledge of languages.
- Roger Bacon

Taking charge of your own learning is a part of taking charge of your life, which is the sine qua non in becoming an integrated person.
- Warren G Bennis

Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.
- John F Kennedy

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.
- George Bernard Shaw

True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.
- Abigail Van Buren

Learning is experience. Everything else is just information.
- Albert Einstein

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
- Albert Einstein

Learning is its own exceeding great reward.
- William Hazlitt

Your work is first, learning is first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing.
- Orson Scott Card

Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them.
- Lord Chesterfield

grammar in learning is like tyranny in government - confound the bitch I'll never be her slave.
- John Clare

A child's learning is a function more of the characteristics of his classmates than those of the teacher.
- James S Coleman

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.
- Confucius

Learning is not the accumulation of knowledge, but rather, one thing only: understanding
- Donna Jo Napoli

Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.
- Jim Rohn

I now realize that education is a last wild effort on the part of the authorities to prevent an overdose of leisure from driving the world mad. Learning is no longer an improver; it is merely the most expensive time-filler the world has ever known.
- Quentin Crisp

Making a wrong decision is understandable. Refusing to search continually for learning is not.
- Phil Crosby

I'd like to be more patient! I just want everything now. I've tried to meditate, but it's really hard for me to stay still. I'd like to try to force myself to do it, because everybody says how wonderful meditation is for you, but I can't shut my mind up. So patience and learning is the key.
- Ellen Degeneres

Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.
- W Edwards Deming

A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
- Frederick Douglass

We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.
- Peter Drucker

Institutions are not pretty. Show me a pretty government. Healing is wonderful, but the American Medical Association? Learning is wonderful, but universities? The same is true for religion... religion is institutionalized spirituality. Mother Jones November/December 1997.
- Huston Smith

There, I said to myself, are the reasons for the silence and darkness that surround the library: it is the preserve of learning but can maintain this learning unsullied only if it prevents its reaching anyone at all, even the monks themselves. Learning is not like a coin, which remains whole even through the most infamous transactions; it is, rather, like a very handsome dress, which is worn out through use and ostentation. Is not a book like that, in fact?
- Umberto Eco

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.
- Bob Edwards

When house and land are gone and spent, then learning is most excellent.
- Samuel Foote

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
- Henry Ford

The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith makes up the highest perfection.
- John Milton

The end of all learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love and imitate Him.
- John Milton

One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
- John W Gardner

Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it; materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity, both of these have done destructive work in the colleges.
- Katherine Fullerton Gerould

Learning is not done to you, it is something you choose to do.
- Seth Godin

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

The process of learning is a nonstop orgy of wonderment.
- Lev Grossman

My way of learning is to heave a wild and unpredictable monkey-wrench into the machinery.
- Dashiell Hammett

The world is the true classroom. The most rewarding and important type of learning is through experience, seeing something with our own eyes.
- Jack Hanna

The biggest hindrance to learning is fear of showing one's self a fool.
- William Least Heatmoon

If a person has a contribution to make, he must make it in public. If learning is not made public, it is a waste.
- Chaim Potok

With all respect, Sahib, you have little to teach us in strength and toughness. And we do not envy you your restless spirits. Perhaps we are happier than you? But we would like our children to go to school. Of all the things you have, learning is the one we most desire for our children.
- Edmund Hillary

Everything you are learning is preparing you for something else.
- Marjorie Pay Hinckley

The willingness to keep learning is, I think, the most important thing about trying to be good at anything. You never want to stop learning.
- Emile Hirsch

learning is never wrong. Even learning how to kill isn't wrong. Or right. It's just a thing to learn, a thing I can teach you. That's all.
- Robin Hobb

The biggest enemy to learning is the talking teacher.
- John Holt

I entered the classroom with the conviction that it was crucial for me and every other student to be an active participant, not a passive consumer...education as the practice of freedom.... education that connects the will to know with the will to become. Learning is a place where paradise can be created.
- Bell Hooks

I didn't learn anything. Mostly, I got myself confused."
"Kathy, that's what learning is all about. You have to know the right questions before you can get the right answers.
- Dean Hughes

Most learning is not the result of instruction. It is rather the result of unhampered participation in a meaningful setting. Most people learn best by being "with it," yet school makes them identify their personal, cognitive growth with elaborate planning and manipulation.
- Ivan Illich

Learning isn't acquiring knowledge so much as it is trimming information that has already been acquired.
- Criss Jami

When learning is purposeful, creativity blossoms. When creativity blossoms, thinking emanates. When thinking emanates, knowledge is fully lit. When knowledge is lit, economy flourishes.
- Abdul Kalam

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

The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
- B B King

In a word, learning is decontextualized. We break ideas down into tiny pieces that bear no relation to the whole. We give students a brick of information, followed by another brick, followed by another brick, until they are graduated, at which point we assume they have a house. What they have is a pile of bricks, and they don't have it for long.
- Alfie Kohn

A man can learn much, but learning is not knowledge. The only true source of infallible certainity is divine illumination.
- Stephen R Lawhead

That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.
- Doris Lessing

Human-heartedness is man's mind. Righteousness is man's path. How sad that he abandons that path and does not rely on it; that he loses that mind and does not know to seek it. When a man has lost a cock or a dog, he knows to seek it, but having lost his (proper) mind, he does not know to seek it. The Way of Learning is nothing other than seeking the lost mind
- Mencius

The least of the work of learning is done in the classroom.
- Thomas Merton

The least of learning is done in the classrooms.
- Thomas Merton

Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn.
- Alice Miller

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

A thing worth learning is worth learning well.
- Patrick Ness

The joy of learning is as indispensable in study as breathing is to running.
- Simone Weil

Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
- Novalis

I recently forced myself to read a book on quantum physics, just to try and learn something new. I was confused by the middle of the first sentence and it all went downhill from there. The only thing I can remember learning is that a parallel universe can theoretically be contained on the head of a needle. I don't really know what that means, but I am now more careful handling needles.
- Stephan Pastis

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

Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.
- Jonathan Swift

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

Learning is always rebellion... Every bit of new truth discovered is revolutionary to what was believed before.
- Margaret Lee Runbeck

The time you quit learning is the time to quit playing.
- Louis Sachar

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

Learning is about seeing things froma a different perspective. My role is to help people improve their vision
- Bob Selden

No art or learning is to be pursued halfheartedly...and any art worth learning will certainly reward more or less generously the effort made to study it.
- Murasaki Shikibu

Learning is any change in a system that produces a more or less permanent change in its capacity for adapting to its environment.
- Herbert Simon

Start with God - the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.
- King Solomon

Love of learning is a pleasant and universal bond since it deals with what one is and not what one has.
- Freya Stark

Learning without thinking is useless, but thinking without learning is very dangerous!
- Sukarno

To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.
- Jeremy Taylor

Life is something we have to experience, really feel, not just study for with books in a library. Learning is about so much more than school. If we're too busy studying, we miss out on the experience.
- Valerie Thomas

I've studied all my musical life, but learning is only good if you do something constructive with it.
- Tony Williams

A big secret to life is when you learn that learning is just as entertaining as entertainment, but with long term benefits.
- Orrin Woodward

Comments

Popular posts from this blog

Bass Player Quotes

I always just wanted to be the singer or the bass player in the band. I'd love to have a band, where I was obviously the singer, but where it wasn't me, it wasn't my name. - Bryan Adams In jazz, you listen to what the bass player is doing and what the drummer is doing, what the pianist and the guitarist is doing, and then you play something that compliments that, so you are thinking simultaneously and thinking ahead. - David Amram I can understand why some of these drummers and bass players become cult figures with all of their equipment and the incredible amount of technique they have. But there's very little that I think satisfies you intellectually or emotionally. - Ken Burns Jack Bruce, as soon as I saw him, it changed me. I didn't even know what bass players did until I saw Cream. - Geezer Butler Bass players are always the intellectual kind, but nobody knows it. - Stanley Clarke There are a lot of people who can do it on the guitar and sing at the same t...

Fat Person Quotes

She was convinced that she was anorexic, because every time she looked in the mirror she did indeed see a fat person. - Terry Pratchett I sensed immediately that he'd once been overweight. He moved with a fat person's tiptoey apology. - Jennifer Egan I feel self-conscious calling my cat fat in front of a fat person, considering I'm skinny and inconsiderate. - Jarod Kintz I call myself a FFP: former fat person, and when you're an FFP, you will always see in yourself what people used to bully you for. - Kelly Osbourne Well you know, it's true that as a fat person I run a greater risk of heart disease, diabetes, and a number of other things. But guess what? The amount of that risk is almost infinitessimal! - Daniel Pinkwater