Learning Quotes

I learned the value of hard work by working hard.

~ Margaret Mead

These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness.

~ Anthony De Mello

My advice to an aspiring actor would be to never stop learning or working for what you want. Nothing comes easy, ever, if you want something, you have to work for it. By working for it I mean work on your craft, learn from people who have something to teach. It's just like anything else, practice makes perfect.

~ James Lafferty

Learning should be engaging. Testing should not be the be all and end all. All students should have a broad curriculum that includes the arts and enrichment. Students should have opportunities to work in teams and engage in project-based learning. And student and family well-being should be front and center.

~ Randi Weingarten

Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.

~ Fred Rogers

Learning something new is a fabulous way to be refreshed. When work can grind you down, something about learning a new activity thrills the soul. It reminds you that the world is bigger than your desk and your to-do list.

~ John Ortberg

In terms of doing work and in terms of learning and evolving as a person, you just grow more when you get more people's perspectives... I really try and live the mission of the company and... keep everything else in my life extremely simple.

~ Mark Zuckerberg

You make mistakes, but I don't have any regrets. I'm the kind of person who takes responsibility for it and deals with it. I learn from everything I do. I work very hard, I have so many things going on in my life. Get to know me and see who I am.

~ Kim Kardashian

I'm learning as I go. I don't know everything. I never had anybody to look at, nobody ever taught me, and where I'm from I didn't have any famous role models.

~ Wale

Public scandals are America's favorite parlor sport. Learning about the flaws and misdeeds of the rich and famous seems to satisfy our egalitarian yearnings.

~ Robert Dallek

Sailing is the closest I can get to nature - it's adrenaline, fear, a constant challenge and learning experience, an adventure into the unknown. And of course there is nothing better than wearing the same T-shirt for days and not brushing my hair for weeks.

~ Daria Werbowy

We are learning, too, that the love of beauty is one of Nature's greatest healers.

~ Ellsworth Huntington

Human beings are accustomed to think of intellect as the power of having and controlling ideas and of ability to learn as synonymous with ability to have ideas. But learning by having ideas is really one of the rare and isolated events in nature.

~ Edward Thorndike

Architecture is a science arising out of many other sciences, and adorned with much and varied learning; by the help of which a judgment is formed of those works which are the result of other arts.

~ Vitruvius

In those parts of the world where learning and science has prevailed, miracles have ceased; but in those parts of it as are barbarous and ignorant, miracles are still in vogue.

~ Ethan Allen

If you're an adult and you choose not to believe in science, fine, but please don't prevent your children from learning about it and letting them draw their own conclusions.

~ Bill Nye

I want to make a drug. I want the science to be more than imaginary, where I think, 'We're learning these fundamental principles, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.' I think we are doing that, but I want to do something really practical. I want to actually, in my lifetime, help people.

~ Bonnie Bassler

A good teacher must be able to put himself in the place of those who find learning hard.

~ Éliphas Lévi

You never stop learning. If you have a teacher, you never stop being a student.

~ Elisabeth Rohm

I saw as a teacher how, if you take that spark of learning that those children have, and you ignite it, you can take a child from any background to a lifetime of creativity and accomplishment.

~ Paul Wellstone

Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

~ Arthur Koestler

I have been a teacher myself all my life. I have an intense passion to share with people. Our only salvation is in knowledge, in learning.

~ Leo Buscaglia

A child's learning is a function more of the characteristics of his classmates than those of the teacher.

~ James S. Coleman

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 am a teacher and the reason I'm a teacher is because I'm learning as hard as I can. I'm not any different from anybody else. I am searching and having some success finding answers.

~ Andy Andrews

Coach Godsey is a brilliant mind, a great teacher, and it's been fun learning from him so far.

~ Brock Osweiler

There were some summers when every boy in Ayrshire seemed to be playing golf, and my dad taught me. But he was a terrible teacher - of everything. Learning to drive with him almost killed me. He was the world's most impatient man - awful short fuse.

~ John Niven

We had a music teacher in sixth grade, and I saw her tune her guitar. I said, 'Whoa. There's a certain way to do this.' I bought a packet of strings - some of mine were broken - and had her tune it for me. For a while, I just kept it like that. But I got the Internet finally, when I was 14, and started learning.

~ Brittany Howard

As places of learning, schools have a responsibility to also educate on nutrition, which we all can agree is far more important than algebra, no matter what your third-period teacher claims.

~ Lynda Resnick

My mother was a first-grade teacher, so I credit her with this lifelong intellectual curiosity I have, and love of reading and learning.

~ Chesley Sullenberger

Everyone can relate to love, hurt, pain, learning how to forgive, needing to get over, needing the power of God in their life.

~ Tyler Perry

Take those chances and you can achieve greatness, whereas if you go conservative, you'll never know. I truly believe what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Even if you fail, learning and moving on is sometimes the best thing.

~ Danica Patrick

In my life, I have made the occasional catastrophic choice, and it's just a case of moving on and learning from it.

~ James Nesbitt

I think that the main thing that you can learn from watching 'The Spectacular Now' is just learning about growing up and moving on.

~ Kaitlyn Dever

It is an honor and a privilege to be of service and support; however, I realize people are not putting their confidence in me. Instead, they are actually learning to trust themselves. My job is to affirm and support them in the process and teach them to do what I do when I need strength: I begin within.

~ Iyanla Vanzant

Learning what all you can overcome as a person, as a human being, is very important. It's very important to understand your strength. Which is not to say you become hardened or bitter.

~ Katrina Kaif

For me, 'Rent' was all about coming out of myself, finding out who I was, learning the power I could have as a performer. And 'Wicked' was about harnessing all that strength.

~ Idina Menzel

We are a long time in learning that all our strength and salvation is in God.

~ David Brainerd

Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent.

~ Billy Graham

Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.

~ Elon Musk