Learning Quotes

Suffering is a part of real life lesson.

~ Toba Beta

Life doesn’t happen to you, but for you. Lessons can be found in everyone’s story.

~ Shannon L. Alder

As Paul Tillich put it, suffering introduces you to yourself and reminds you that you are not the person you thought you were.

~ David Brooks

Human beings are the only creatures who are allowed to fail. If an ant fails, it's dead. But we're allowed to learn from our mistakes and from our failures. And that's how I learn, by falling flat on my face and picking myself up and starting all over again.

~ Madeleine L'engle

Without language, thought is a vague, uncharted nebula.

~ Ferdinand De Saussure

We all mess up. It's what we learn from our mistakes that matters.

~ Lauren Myracle

had no need of a guide to learn ignorance

~ Voltaire

The humble ones are always learning and improving, and their secret is always that it's a secret.

~ Criss Jami

There is one purpose to life and one only: to bear witness to and understand as much as possible of the complexity of the world -- its beauty, its mysteries, its riddles. The more you understand, the more you look, the greater is your enjoyment of life and your sense of peace. That's all there is to it. Everything else is fun and games. If an activity is not grounded in to love or to learn it does not have value.

~ Anne Rice

Others could be victim for each lesson we learned.

~ Toba Beta

Every mistake committed is a learning opportunity.

~ Santosh Kalwar

I don’t really know what “intellectual” means, but if it means you’ve got a desire to learn, you’ve got a desire to look for things that haven’t been presented to you, then, maybe. I think that “intellectual” is quite an exclusive word. I think it’s just for anyone that has a thirst or a hunger to improve themselves, or a yearning to escape from somewhere to get to a better place.

~ Pete Doherty

Mocking precedes learning the hard way.

~ Toba Beta

One thing I learned in here is the past is for learning. It's not for punishing others or yourself. It's not for dwelling on and getting angry about things you can't change. It's for learning how to do better in the rest of your life. And being grateful you get another chance to try and do better.

~ Nicole Green

GREAT SECRET Whenever I’m learning something difficult, I keep expectations low, and aspirations high.

~ James Marcus Bach

The essence of training is to allow error without consequence.

~ Orson Scott Card

The best thing for disturbances of the spirit is to learn. That is the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love and lose your moneys to a monster, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honor trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then--to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the poor mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting.

~ T.h. White

...learning always occurs in a context of taking action, and they value engagement and experience as the most effective strategies for deep learning.

~ Richard Dufour

I'm starting to think that my level of intrigue outweighs my fear of controversy.

~ Criss Jami

When we set about accounting for a Napoleon or a Shakespeare or a Raphael or a Wagner or an Edison or other extraordinary person, we understand that the measure of his talent will not explain the whole result, nor even the largest part of it; no, it is the atmosphere in which the talent was cradled that explains; it is the training it received while it grew, the nurture it got from reading, study, example, the encouragement it gathered from self-recognition and recognition from the outside at each stage of its development: when we know all these details, then we know why the man was ready when his opportunity came.

~ Mark Twain

知之者不如好之者，好之者不如樂之者。”“Knowing it does not compare with loving it, loving it does not compare with delighting in it.

~ Confucius

Those are fools however learnedWho have not learned to walk with the world.

~ Thiruvalluvar

Nothing has more retarded the advancement of learning than the disposition of vulgar minds to ridicule and vilify what they cannot comprehend.

~ Samuel Johnson

He landed on cheap shot, but I knocked him out of the tournament.

~ Josh Waitzkin

Of course, I am interested, but I would not dare to talk about them. In talking about the impact of ideas in one field on ideas in another field, one is always apt to make a fool of oneself. In these days of specialization there are too few people who have such a deep understanding of two departments of our knowledge that they do not make fools of themselves in one or the other.

~ Richard Feynman

A sage is a former fool who has become tired of himself.A foolish sage is one who forgets this.Remember, or come full circle.

~ Vera Nazarian

Well we are nothing if not re-inventive. With every life experience we learn what to not do ever again and how to adapt to our current situations. We are always learning about ourselves and changing. I seriously don’t know anyone that has it all figured out, and if there is I want to punch them in the face.

~ Allison B. Levine

Now I realized that life supplies us with everything we need for the journey. Everything I had acquired either actively or passively, everything I had learned either voluntarily or by osmosis, was coming back to me as the real riches of my life, even though I had lost everything.

~ Ingrid Betancourt

Failed efforts are there for you to examine and learn from.

~ Kelli Wilson

At Learning's fountain it is sweet to drink, But 'tis a nobler privilege to think.

~ John Godfrey Saxe

The key to pursuing excellence is to embrace an organic, long-term learning process, and not to live in a shell of static, safe mediocrity. Usually, growth comes at the expense of previous comfort or safety.

~ Josh Waitzkin

She wasn't where she had been. She wasn't where she was going, but she was on her way.

~ Jodi Hills

And this is the sense of the word grammar which our inaccurate student detests, and this is the sense of the word which every sensible tutor will maintain. His maxim is a little, but well; that is, really know what you say you know: know what you know and what you do not know; get one thing well before you go on to a second; try to ascertain what your words mean; when you read a sentence, picture it before your mind as a whole, take in the truth or information contained in it, express it in your own words, and, if it be important, commit it to the faithful memory. Again, compare one idea with another; adjust truths and facts; form them into one whole, or notice the obstacles which occur in doing so. This is the way to make progress; this is the way to arrive at results; not to swallow knowledge, but (according to the figure sometimes used) to masticate and digest it.

~ John Henry Newman

In my school, he thought, they learn bitterness and frustration and how to grow old.

~ Graham Greene

Learning is retarded in conditions of high anxiety and low acceptance. For most tasks, people have the intellectual knowledge to perform well; they just have a hard time acting on what they know.

~ Tim Gallwey

Every day we can learn something new.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

... the object of learning was not to build a better mousetrap but to ask a better question.

~ Julius Lester

If you're going into a very dark place, then you should take a bright light, and shine it on everything. If you don't want to see, why in God's name would you dare the dark at all?

~ Stephen King

LSD stands out for learning to slow down.

~ Santosh Kalwar

Leaders are more powerful role models when they learn than when they teach.

~ Rosabeth Moss Kantor