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Ralph Banks Learning by experience often is painful- and the more it hurts, the more you learn.
Japanese Proverb One thousand days to learn; ten thousand days to refine.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The secret of culture is to learn, that a few great points steadily reappear,???and that these few are alone to be regarded, -- the escape from all false ties; courage to be what we are; and love of what is simple and beautiful; independence, and cheerful r
Confucius I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Henry Ford Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at 20 or 80. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.
Yehudi Menuhin We embark unhesitatingly on the path, in a direction that is absolutely right and urgent, supported by everyone, in the knowledge that this path is but a learning process???[W]e have to keep on learning, creating, applying, by-passing, touching upon, refini
William M. Thayer He learned by sight, scent, and hearing. He heard all that was said, and talked over and over the questions heard; wore them slick, greasy, and threadbare. He went to political and other speeches and gatherings; he would hear all sides and opinions, talk
Malcolm Gladwell We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.
Leonard Bernstein It was an initiation into the love of learning, of learning how to learn, that was revealed to me by my BLS masters as a matter of interdisciplinary cognition-that is, learning to know something by its relation to something else.
Rosalyn S. Yalow The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you're learning you're not old.
Carl Rowen The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.
Henry Ford Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at 20 or 80. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.
Carl R. Rogers If we value independence, if we are disturbed by the growing conformity of knowledge, of values, of attitudes, which our present system induces, then we may wish to set up conditions of learning which make for uniqueness, for self-direction, and for self-initiated learning.
Henry Ford Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
Henry Ford Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at 20 or 80. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
Moshe Arens Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at 2 or 8. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
Gary Ryan Blair Learning is about more than simply acquiring new knowledge and insights; it is also crucial to unlearn old knowledge that has outlive its relevance. Thus, forgetting is probably at least as important as learning.
Yehudi Menuhin We embark unhesitatingly on the path, in a direction that is absolutely right and urgent, supported by everyone, in the knowledge that this path is but a learning process???[W]e have to keep on learning, creating, applying, by-passing, touching upon, refini
Confucius Learning without thought is labor lost thought without learning is perilous.
Lyndon B. Johnson Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.
John F. Kennedy Liberty without learning is always in peril learning without liberty is always in vain.
Fred Rogers 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.
Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield Learning is acquired by reading books but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading man, and studying all the various editions of them.
Stobaeus How vain is learning unless intelligence go with it.
Daniel J. Boorstin Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.
Aeschylus Learning is ever in the freshness of its youth, even for the old.
B. B. King The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
Maggie Kuhn Learning and sex until rigor mortis.
Plato The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.
Andrew Weremy There is more learning in the question itself than the answer.
P Barnum Advertising is like learning -- a little is a dangerous thing.
Jean de La Fontaine Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.
Jewish Proverb Don't look for more honor than your learning merits.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy Leadership and learning are indispensible to each other.
Chinese Proverb Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
Henry David Thoreau It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.
John Selden No man is wiser for his learning, wit and wisdom are born with a man.
Albert Einstein The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
Rabbinical Saying Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.
Sydney Smith He not only overflowed with learning, he stood in the slop.
Latin Proverb By learning you will teach, by teaching you will learn.
Orson Scott Card Your work is first, learning is first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing.
Richard Bach Sometimes when learning comes before experience It doesn't make sense right away.
Doris Lessing That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.
Jiddu Krishnamurti Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.
Ralph Banks Learning by experience often is painful- and the more it hurts, the more you learn.
Anthony D'Angelo Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.
William Arthur Ward Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.
Ambrose Bierce Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.
Lawrence Peter Berra Bill Dickey is learning me his experience.
Bill Watterson Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous - Calvin
Nan Fairbrother The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain; to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do.
Nan Fairbrother The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do.
Doris Lessing In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.
Alfred Edward Perlman Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
Anthony D'Angelo Never stop learning knowledge doubles every fourteen months.
George Bernard Shaw If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
Archibald Wavell No amount of study or learning will make a man a leader unless he has the natural qualities of one.
Learning to draw is really a matter of learning to see -- to see correctly -- and that means a good deal more than merely looking with the eye.
While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
Teaching is more difficult than learning because what teaching calls for is this: to let learn. The real teacher, in fact, lets nothing else be learned than learning. His conduct, therefore, often produces the impression that we properly learn nothing fro
Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.
Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them.
Liberty without learning is always in peril; learning without liberty is always in vain.
Oh no, not another learning experience!
Learning is finding out what you already know
I'm learning to fly ... and I don't have wings!
With just enough of learning to misquote.
Experience without learning is better than learning without experience.
Oh, no ... not another learning experience.
The least of learning is done in the classrooms.
By learning to obey, you will know how to command.
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
Learning makes a man fit company for himself.
Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.
Much learning does not teach understanding.
Health is worth more than learning.
Everyone who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.
He who is afraid to ask is ashamed of learning.
By learning you will teach; by teaching you will learn.
Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.
A little learning is a dangerous thing but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.
A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.
There is no procedure for learning to write. What you must do, is learn to think.
There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom
One of the things about being a grown-up is learning how to act right even when you feel wrong.
I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.
I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.
Generally speaking, you aren't learning much when your mouth is moving.
I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning to sail my ship.
Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time.
It is in learning music that many youthful hearts learn to love.
Life is like playing the violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.
Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.
Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little worldings enjoy.
There are three ingredients to the good life; learning, earning, and yearning.
There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning, and yearning.
A handful of common sense is worth a bushel of learning.
The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.
The process of learning requires not only hearing and applying but also forgetting and then remembering again.
What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers.
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.
Learning is not attained by chance. It must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.
Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo Clinic.

 

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