Learning Quotes

Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning.

~ George Bernard Shaw

For the best return on your money, pour your purse into your head.

~ Benjamin Franklin

We can't begin to learn until we admit how much we don't know.

~ Claudia Gray

The conquest of learning is achieved through the knowledge of languages.

~ Roger Bacon

Few activities are as delightful as learning new vocabulary.

~ Tim Gunn

Nina, you taught me to be something better. They could be taught, too.

~ Leigh Bardugo

Everyone knew there were wolves in the mountains, but they seldom came near the village - the modern wolves were the offspring of ancestors that had survived because they had learned that human meat had sharp edges.

~ Terry Pratchett

I have no place in my life for someone who is sure he can do everything.

~ Mercedes Lackey

I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.

~ Annie Dillard

Learning to cover a mistake is as important as getting everything right.

~ Suzanne Harper

I had discovered that learning something, no matter how complex, wasn't hard when I had a reason to want to know it.

~ Homer Hickam

The formulation of the problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill.

~ Albert Einstein

Take the stupidest thing you've ever done. At least it's done. It's over. It's gone. We can all learn from our mistakes and heal and move on. But it's harder to learn or heal or move on from something that hasn't happened; something we don't know and is therefore indefinable; something which could very easily have been the best thing in our lives, if only we'd taken the plunge, if only we'd held our breath and stood up and done it, if only we'd said yes.

~ Danny Wallace

Q: What is a fundamental mistake of man's?A: To think that he is alive, when he has merely fallen asleep in life's waiting-room.

~ Idries Shah

Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy. At least you will, by such conduct, stand the be.

~ Benjamin Franklin

Real generosity is anonymous to the extent that a man should be prepared even to be considered ungenerous rather than explain it to others.

~ Idries Shah

The best way to learn is to do, the worst way to teach is to talk.

~ Paul Halmos

Knowing comes from learning, finding from seeking.

~ Vaddey Ratner

Do question, even the basics!You will be a fool for once!If you don't, you will be, for a lifetime..

~ Himmilicious

Lines are very difficult to learn.

~ Benedict Cumberbatch

Though loyal and able and brave, Pea had never displayed the slightest ability to learn from his experience, though his experience was considerable. Time and again he would walk up on the wrong side of a horse that was known to kick, and then look surprised when he got kicked.

~ Larry Mcmurtry

We have nothing to fear and a great deal to learn from trees, that vigorours and pacific tribe which without stint produces strengthening essences for us, soothing balms, and in whose gracious company we spend so many cool, silent, and intimate hours.

~ Marcel Proust

Deep in the sea are riches beyond compare. But if you seek safety, it is on the shore.

~ Idries Shah

Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.

~ W. Edwards Deming

the fundamental purpose of school is learning, not teaching.

~ Richard Dufour

In my day the principal concerns of university students were sex, smoking dope, rioting and learning. Learning was something you did only when the first three weren't available.

~ Bill Bryson

We learn to do something by doing it.There is no other way.

~ John Holt

There's a difference between thinking you can't be wrong and having no regrets. Wrongness is what occurs prior to empiricism, in hindsight a counterpart of revelation, and revelation is nothing to regret.

~ Criss Jami

I never learn anything from listening to myself.

~ Barbara Kingsolver

What does reason know? Reason only knows what it has succeeded in learning...

~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

At a certain level of learning and understanding,right or wrong ain't the issue, but different interest.

~ Toba Beta

To conclude, therefore, let no man upon a weak conceit of sobriety or an ill-applied moderation think or maintain that a man can search too far, or be too well studied in the book of God's word, or the book of God's works, divinity or philosophy; but rather let men endeavor an endless progress or proficience in both; only let men beware that they apply both to charity, and not to swelling; to use, and not to ostentation; and again, that they do not unwisely mingle or confound these learnings together.

~ Francis Bacon

We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong.

~ Bill Vaughan

It is important that you never place limitations on learning, personal growth, traveling, reading and making a positive difference in your life and others.

~ Tasha Hoggatt

Language is still separating us even though technology is bringing us closer together.

~ Suzy Kassem

You see, some things I can teach you. Some you learn from books. But there are things that, well, you just have to see and feel.

~ Khaled Hosseini

Never too late to learn some embarrassingly basic, stupidly obvious things about oneself.

~ Alain De Botton

Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf. Survival first, and then happiness as we can manage it.... Take what pleasure you can in the interstices of your work, but your work is first, learning first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing.

~ Orson Scott Card

It's much easier, after all, to learn mathematics from someone who's made a few mistakes. It's impossible to learn it from someone who always gets it right.

~ John C. Lennox

Why is it we must suffer the loss of something so dear before we realize what a treasure we had?Why must the sun be darkened before we feel how genuinely impossible it is to live without its warmth?Why within the misery of absence does love grow by such bounds?Why must life be this way?It is a strange existence where such suffering makes us far better people.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich