Learning Quotes

I learned the bad guys are not always bad, the good guys are not always good, and to quote Captain Barbossa, the parameters are like rules, mostly guidelines. And that it takes a little bit of bad boy to fight the evil in the world.--Terri Mitchell

~ Sherrilyn Kenyon

People don't get better, they just get smarter. When you get smarter you don't stop pulling the wings off flies, you just think of better reasons for doing it.

~ Stephen King

Let go of certainty. The opposite isn't uncertainty. It's openness, curiosity and a willingness to embrace paradox, rather than choose up sides. The ultimate challenge is to accept ourselves exactly as we are, but never stop trying to learn and grow.

~ Tony Schwartz

There are three kinds of men. The ones that learn by readin’. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.

~ Will Rogers

In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.

~ Eric Hoffer

All subjects are the same. I memorize notes for a test, spew it, ace it, then forget it. What makes this scary for the future of our country is that I'm in the tip-top percentile on every standardized test. I'm a model student with a very crappy attitude about learning.

~ Megan Mccafferty

They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even when you don't know it

~ Nicholas Sparks

Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, teachers.

~ Richard Bach

I'd learned enough from life's experiences to understand that destiny's interventions can sometimes be read as invitation for us to address and even surmount our biggest fears. It doesn't take a great genius to recognize that when you are pushed by circumstance to do the one thing you have always most specifically loathed and feared, this can be, at the very least, an interesting growth opportunity.

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

Everything I know, I learned from dogs.

~ Nora Roberts

To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.

~ James Joyce

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

~ Oscar Wilde

If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don't bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking.

~ R. Buckminster Fuller

The more man learned, the more he realized he did not know.

~ Dan Brown

Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.

~ Charles Caleb Colton

We can say that Muad'Dib learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn. And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn.

~ Frank Herbert

The life so short, the craft so long to learn.

~ Hippocrates

Liz, you must be very polite with yourself when you are learning something new.

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

For a human being, nothing comes naturally,' said Grumman. 'We have to learn everything we do.

~ Philip Pullman

We find comfort among those who agree with us - growth among those who don't.

~ Frank Clark

I don't want to give advice to a 19-year-old, because I want a 19-year-old to make mistakes and learn from them. Make mistakes, make mistakes, make mistakes. Just make sure they're your mistakes.

~ Fiona Apple

I'm starting to think this world is just a place for us to learn that we need each other more than we want to admit.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

At fifteen I set my heart upon learning. At thirty, I had planted my feet firm upon the ground. At forty, I no longer suffered from perplexities. At fifty, I knew what were the biddings of Heaven. At sixty, I heard them with docile ear. At seventy, I could follow the dictates of my own heart; for what I desired no longer overstepped the boundaries of right.

~ Confucius

I realized that the deepest spiritual lessons are not learned by His letting us have our way in the end, but by His making us wait, bearing with us in love and patience until we are able to honestly to pray what He taught His disciples to pray: Thy will be done.

~ Elisabeth Elliot

to learn and not to do is really not to learn. To know and not to do is really not to know.

~ Stephen R. Covey

What you keep before your eyes will affect you.

~ Joel Osteen

Our parents can show us a lot of things: they can show us how we are to be and what things we ought to strive for, or they can show us how not to be and what things we ought to stray from, then you may have the kind of parents that show you all the things about you that you want to get rid of and you realize those traits aren't yours at all but are merely your parents' marks that have rubbed off onto you.

~ C. Joybell C.

With too much pride a man cannot learn a thing. In and of itself, learning teaches you how foolish you are.

~ Criss Jami

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

~ Pablo Picasso

An exceedingly confident student would in theory make a terrible student. Why would he take school seriously when he feels that he can outwit his teachers?

~ Criss Jami

I learn to trust someone I love..I learn to deal with heartbreak..I learn to forgive him who hurts.I never stop learning in this life.

~ Toba Beta

In all the works on pedagogy that ever I read — and they have been many, big, and heavy — I don't remember that any one has advocated a system of teaching by practical jokes, mostly cruel. That, however, describes the method of our great teacher, Experience.

~ Charles Sanders Peirce

I think you should learn, of course, and some days you must learn a great deal. But you should also have days when you allow what is already in you to swell up inside of you until it touches everything. And you can feel it inside of you. If you never take time out to let that happen, then you accumulate facts, and they begin to rattle around inside of you. You can make noise with them, but never really feel anything with them. It's hollow.

~ E.l. Konigsburg

My words itch at your ears till you understand them

~ Walt Whitman

One day you will learn that love does not always betray you.

~ Mary Balogh

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

~ Paulo Coelho

Will raised both eyebrows. 'Well, you learn a new thing everyday,' he said reflectively.'In your case, that's no exaggeration,' Halt said, completely straight-faced.

~ John Flanagan

I said I *liked* being half-educated, you were so much more *surprised* at everything when you were ignorant.

~ Gerald Durrell

The worst thing a kid can say about homework is that it is too hard. The worst thing a kid can say about a game is it's too easy.

~ Henry Jenkins

Too many of us take great pains with what we ingest through our mouths, and far less with what we partake of through our ears and eyes.

~ Brandon Sanderson