Learning Quotes

I have read the bible, seen its errors and perfections, but the bits of lie contained therein has contaminated the truth.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Never follow any impulse to teach, however strong it might be. The command to teach is not felt as an impulsion.

~ Idries Shah

What I like about this belief is that it makes people look for a big picture, and think more about how they behave in this life and what they achieve, as it might influence their next lives. I also like another aspect of it: that negative experiences teach us as much as positive experiences do; sometimes they teach us more.

~ Daniela I. Norris

What I like about this belief is that it makes people look for a big picture, and think more about how they behave in this life and what they achieve, as it might influence their next lives. I alsolike another aspect of it: that negative experiences teach us as much as positive experiences do; sometimes they teach us more.

~ Daniela I. Norris

Thanks. Seriously, you must have better things to do with your life than waste it on the hopeless?''I've already learned Parseltongue. What else is there?''Elvish.

~ Michelle Hodkin

Cutting my roots and leaving my home and family when I was 18 years old forced me to build my home in other things, like my music, stories and my journey. The last years I have more or less constantly been on my way, on the road, always leaving and never arriving, which also means leaving people. I’ve loved and lost and I have regrets and I miss and no matter how many times you leave, start over, achieve success or travel places it’s other people that matter. People, friends, family, lovers, strangers – they will forever stay with you, even if only through memory. I’ve grown to appreciate people to the deepest core and I’m trying to learn how to tell people what I want to tell them when I have the chance, before it’s too late. …

~ Charlotte Eriksson

Education is every day and everywhere, the only thing you have to pay is attention.

~ Tim Fargo

Do not try to be humble: learn humility.

~ Idries Shah

... because one day, maybe one day, if I learned how to write clear enough, sing loud enough, be strong enough, I could explain myself in a way that made sense and then maybe one day, one day, someone out there would hear and recognise her or himself and I could let them know that they are not alone. Just like that song I had on repeat for several nights as I walked lonely on empty streets, let me know that I was notaloneand that’s how it starts.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

If your desire for 'good' is based on greed, it is not good, but greed.

~ Idries Shah

To copy a virtue in another is more copying than it is virtue. Try to learn what that virtue is based upon.

~ Idries Shah

Half of learning is learning. The other half of learning is unlearning.

~ Mark Batterson

If you seek a teacher, try to become a real student. If you want to be a student, try to find a real teacher.

~ Idries Shah

The more we want our children to be (1) lifelong learners, genuinely excited about words and numbers and ideas, (2) avoid sticking with what’s easy and safe, and (3) become sophisticated thinkers, the more we should do everything possible to help them forget about grades.

~ Alfie Kohn

If you cannot laugh frequently and genuinely, you have no soul.

~ Idries Shah

Failure is a great teacher, but never insist on hiring one for yourself. Learn vicariously from others' teachers.

~ Ashok Kallarakkal

But there is another possible attitude towards the records of the past, and I have never been able to understand why it has not been more often adopted. To put it in its curtest form, my proposal is this: That we should not read historians, but history. Let us read the actual text of the times. Let us, for a year, or a month, or a fortnight, refuse to read anything about Oliver Cromwell except what was written while he was alive. There is plenty of material; from my own memory (which is all I have to rely on in the place where I write) I could mention offhand many long and famous efforts of English literature that cover the period. Clarendon’s History, Evelyn’s Diary, the Life of Colonel Hutchinson. Above all let us read all Cromwell’s own letters and speeches, as Carlyle published them. But before we read them let us carefully paste pieces of stamp-paper over every sentence written by Carlyle. Let us blot out in every memoir every critical note and every modern paragraph. For a time let us cease altogether to read the living men on their dead topics. Let us read only the dead men on their living topics.

~ G.k. Chesterton

There is no check-box for ethical leadership. It is an ongoing individual and organizational journey. We will never know everything that there is to know.

~ Linda Fisher Thornton

If my decision is wrong, at least I will have learned something new. There is always next time.

~ Sylvan Clarke

Assume that you are part-hypocrite and part heedless, and you will not be far wrong.

~ Idries Shah

Change without learning is painful. Learning without change is pointless.

~ Graham O'connell

One major factor that will prevent your dreams from becoming nightmares is learning to vacate your spectators’ seat and then taking steps towards the players' bench! You've got to play to win!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Nothing is perfect and this is the perfect reason for men to keep on learning, understanding and discovering.

~ Dee Dee Artner

In a human development sense, our understanding of leadership has essentially “grown up” and moved past personal ego and a self-centered view of things.

~ Linda Fisher Thornton

She has passed information to you. Figures names and facts. You have learnt nothing very much. But you have a splendid memory. It will help you when you start to learn.

~ Richard Llewellyn

Learning is a journey: from facts to knowledge, on to understanding and eventually wisdom.

~ Graham O'connell

The art of teaching lies in communicating the mystery of the universe without taking the mystery out of it.

~ Dane R. Pascoe

That which triggers understanding often is found by bringing misunderstanding to the light.

~ Dane R. Pascoe

We don't teach flowers to bloom, we ensure they have the best conditions in which to do so.

~ Dane R. Pascoe

Class is mostly a way to find something in myself I didn't know was there. Learning doesn't fill me up so much as opens me up. Shakes me loose and throws me off my habits -- might even rearrange me. It's like if you only rode Brandy and not Geronimo or Elvis. Once in a while I want to get on a horse that scares me sideways.

~ Charlie Quimby

The most holy cannibalism you can perform is to eat the flesh and blood of sagacity, and by sharing it with other wisdom thirsty cannibals.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

The man who knows must discharge a function. The one who does not, cannot arrogate one to himself; he can only try to do so.

~ Idries Shah

You learned this,” Kabsal said, lifting up her drawing of Jasnah, “from a book.”“Er…yes?”He looked back at the picture. “I need to read more.

~ Brandon Sanderson

The hardest mistakes to learn from are those that lack consequence.

~ Jasper Sole

Ah, not in knowledge is happiness, but in the acquisition of knowledge! In forever knowing, we are forever blessed; but to know all, were the curse of a fiend.

~ Edgar Allan Poe

It's never either-or, never enjoyment versus advancement, so long as you conceive of advancement in terms of learning rather than climbing to the next rung of the professional ladder. You are getting ahead if you learn, even if you wind up staying on the same rung.

~ Chris Hadfield

[W]hat people truly desire is access to the knowledge and information that ultimately lead to a better life--the collected wisdom of the ages found only in one place: a well-stocked library.To the teachers and librarians and everyone on the frontlines of bringing literature to young people: I know you have days when your work seems humdrum, or unappreciated, or embattled, and I hope on those days you will take a few moments to reflect with pride on the importance of the work you do. For it is indeed of enormous importance--the job of safeguarding and sharing the world's wisdom.All of you are engaged in the vital task of providing the next generation with the tools they will need to save the world. The ability to read and access information isn't just a power--it's a superpower. Which means that you aren't just heroes--you're superheroes. I believe that with all my heart.

~ Linda Sue Park

Formal learning is like riding a bus: the driver decides where the bus is going; the passengers are along for the ride. Informal learning is like riding a bike: the rider chooses the destination, the speed, and the route.

~ Jay Cross

These dear souls came not to Sabbath school because it was popular to do so, nor did I teach them because it was reputable to be thus engaged. Every moment they spent in that school, they were liable to be taken up, and given thirty-nine lashes. They came because they wished to learn. Their minds had been starved by their cruel masters. They had been shut up in mental darkness. I taught them, because it was the delight of my soul to be doing something that looked like the bettering the condition of my race

~ Frederick Douglass

There is no wisdom where there is no common sense: it cannot under those conditions find any expression.

~ Idries Shah