Learning Quotes

Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?

I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.

The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly.

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

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

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.
Jean Paul

I am not learned, but I have as good feelings as any man.
Joseph Smith, Jr.

An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome.

Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge - that is everywhere.

Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
John Dewey

I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.
Marie Curie

I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale.
Marie Curie

You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.
Indira Gandhi

I think people in general have neglected to learn about history.
Maynard James Keenan

I believe that the testing of the student's achievements in order to see if he meets some criterion held by the teacher, is directly contrary to the implications of therapy for significant learning.
Carl Rogers

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

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

A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.

Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.
Richard P. Feynman

If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.

I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

To be educated, a person doesn't have to know much or be informed, but he or she does have to have been exposed vulnerably to the transformative events of an engaged human life.

When you blame yourself, you learn from it. If you blame someone else, you don't learn nothing, cause hey, it's not your fault, it's his fault, over there.
Joe Strummer

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.
Titus

The consequences of an act affect the probability of it's occurring again.
B. F. Skinner

I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.
Lucille Ball

But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.
Immanuel Kant

What's right is what's left if you do everything else wrong.

You can learn from anyone even your enemy.
Ovid

The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.
Maria Montessori

A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

There are no classes in life for beginners; right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.
Rainer Maria Rilke

In my early days, I was eager to learn and to do things, and therefore I learned quickly.
Sitting Bull

No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.
Thomas Hardy

There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.
John Locke

Responsibility for learning belongs to the student, regardless of age.
Robert Martin

Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.
John Wayne

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.
Colin Powell

A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
Ezra Pound

It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.
Ram Dass

The education of a man is never completed until he dies.
Robert E. Lee

In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress.
Leonard Cohen

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.