I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
Ernest HemingwayLife is too short to learn German.
Richard PorsonExcellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather we have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit.
AristotleThe beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
B. B. KingFriendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.
Muhammad AliLearning never exhausts the mind.
Leonardo da VinciWho is wise? He that learns from everyone.
Benjamin FranklinI hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
ConfuciusIf we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?
Albert EinsteinAs the fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts.
BuddhaYou cannot open a book without learning something.
ConfuciusI have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.
Herman HesseAs irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.
BuddhaGod created war so that Americans would learn geography.
Mark TwainThe knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
Douglas AdamsAll men by nature desire to know.
AristotleA man who views the world the same at 50 as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.
Muhammad AliTeaching is the highest form of understanding.
AristotleThe truth is lived, not taught.
Herman HesseI do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
Abraham LincolnIt is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.
Herman HessePoor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.
Leonardo da VinciI've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
Maya AngelouThe deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived not taught.
Herman HesseWe could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.
Helen KellerWe still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
Albert EinsteinLeadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
John F. KennedyLearn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.
Herman HesseI’ve learned that I still have a lot to learn.
Maya AngelouDon't limit a child to your own learning for he was born in another time.
Rabindranath TagoreBooks are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.
James Russell LowellLong engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.
Oscar WildeIt is better to know how to learn, than to know.
Dr. SeussWe hate nothing that exists, not even death, suffering and dying, does not horrify our souls, as long as we learn more deeply to love.
Herman HesseHe who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep, pain that cannot forget, falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.
AeschylusSometimes when learning comes before experience it doesn't make sense right away.
Richard BachEvery truth has four corners: as a teacher I give you one corner and it is for you to find the other three.
ConfuciusWe cannot learn without pain
AristotleI want to know all Gods thoughts, all the rest are just details.
Albert EinsteinJoy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.
Albert EinsteinThe main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts, but learning how to make facts live.
Oliver Wendell HolmesThe greatest gift is to give people your enlightenment, to share it. It has to be the greatest.
BuddhaA wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.
John LubbockExperience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
Benjamin FranklinWhat we have to learn to do we learn by doing.
AristotleAlways do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
Ernest HemingwayThe Bible remained for me a book of books still divine - but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.
Joseph JoubertPerplexity is the beginning of knowledge.
Kahlil GibranEverybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.
Oscar WildeThe disciple should associate with a wise friend who detects and censures his faults and who points out virtues as a guide tells of buried treasures. There is happiness not woe to him who associates with such an intelligent friend.
BuddhaHe who has imagination without learning, has wings but no feet.
Joseph JoubertThere are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth... not going all the way and not starting.
BuddhaA man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
Mark TwainEducation consists mainly of what we have unlearned.
Mark TwainBeing ignorant is not so much a shame as being unwilling to learn.
Benjamin FranklinI've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands, you need to be able to throw something back.
Maya AngelouLearning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity and a provision in old age.
AristotleThere comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.
Albert EinsteinThe only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
Albert EinsteinAlways desire to learn something useful.
SophoclesTell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
Benjamin FranklinI read in the newspapers they are going to have 30 minutes of intellectual stuff on television every Monday from 7:30 to 8. to educate America. They couldn't educate America if they started at 6:30.
Groucho MarxHe who learns but does not think is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.
ConfuciusEverything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.
Helen KellerThere is no sin except stupidity.
Oscar WildeIntellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.
Albert EinsteinTo learn is a natural pleasure not confined to philosophers, but common to all men.
AristotlePatriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.
Arthur SchopenhauerYou can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.
Franklin Pierce AdamsA child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.
James Arthur BaldwinWhen we see men of a contrary character we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.
ConfuciusA self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.
Henny YoungmanLearning is not child's play, we cannot learn without pain.
AristotleTo raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
Albert EinsteinStudy the past if you would divine the future.
ConfuciusI sometimes find that in interviews you learn more about yourself than the person learned about you.
William ShatnerHegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.
George Bernard ShawIn times of change learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
Eric HofferMany a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.
Kahlil GibranI have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant and kindness from the unkind, yet strange I am ungrateful to those teachers.
Kahlil GibranAs the man who digs obtains underground water by use of a shovel, so the student attains the knowledge possessed by his preceptor through his service.
ChanakyaThe way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
Abraham LincolnA little learning indeed may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
Frederick DouglassAbility will never catch up with the demand for it.
ConfuciusLearning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.
Jim RohnLearn as though you would never be able to master it, Hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.
ConfuciusA little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.
George Bernard ShawA man should look for what is and not for what he thinks should be.
Albert EinsteinWe must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.
AristotleFor the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.
AristotleHe who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.
AristotleWe cannot learn men from books.
Benjamin DisraeliNo, I'm no enemy to learning, it hurts not me.
William CongreveAdvice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.
Baltasar GracianThere are things which seem incredible to most men who have not studied mathematics.
AristotleThe man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much, if he is an optimist after it he knows too little.
Mark TwainSometimes we may learn more from a man's errors than from his virtues.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowWonder implies the desire to learn
AristotleI have learned to hate all traitors, and there is no disease that I spit on more than treachery.
AeschylusThe gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
Albert EinsteinThe important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
Albert EinsteinAcquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old and you may become a teacher of others.
ConfuciusThe more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.
Dr. SeussWe spend more time learning how to make a living than we do learning to make a life.
Muhammad AliIt is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
Albert EinsteinI must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.
Jane AustenThe most important lesson that man can learn from life, is not that there is pain in this world, but that it is possible for him to transmute it into joy.
Rabindranath TagoreRemember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure. You’ve got to find the treasure, so that everything you have learned along the way can make sense.
Paulo CoelhoTeaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself.
Paulo CoelhoIf you want to see a rainbow you have to learn to see the rain.
Paulo CoelhoA man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.
Mark TwainWithout patience, we will learn less in life. We will see less. We will feel less. We will hear less. Ironically, rush and more usually mean less.
Mother TeresaIf we really want to love we must learn how to forgive.
Mother TeresaSome people come in our life as blessings. Some come in your life as lessons.
Mother TeresaWhen I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
Mark TwainWe are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions, rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things we can accomplish those goals.
Stephen CoveyI have always thirsted for knowledge, I have always been full of questions.
Herman HesseNot every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort.
EpictetusLife must be a constant education, one must learn everything from speaking to dying.
Gustave FlaubertIt should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.
Albert EinsteinLearn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Albert EinsteinI investigate things to complete my knowledge, my complete knowledge makes my thoughts sincere, my thoughts being sincere, my heart is pure.
ConfuciusEducation is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
Albert EinsteinThe search for truth is in one way hard, and in another way easy, for it is evident that no one can master it fully or miss it wholly. But each adds a little to our knowledge of nature, and from all the facts assembled there arises a certain grandeur.
AristotleSoon the child learns that there are strangers, and ceases to be a child.
Max MullerLearn one thing from a lion, one from a crane, four a cock, five from a crow, six from a dog, and three from an ass.
ChanakyaUncertainty is a sign of humility, and humility is just the ability or the willingness to learn.
Charlie SheenOnly by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheIf you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen particularly.
Alan WattsTrue scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist but what they mean, it is not memory but judgment.
James Russell LowellDefense is a definite part of the game and a great part of defense is learning to play it without fouling.
John WoodenLearning is like a cow of desire. It like her yields in all seasons. Like a mother it feeds you on your journey. Therefore learning is a hidden treasure.
ChanakyaWhen man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized.
Ayn RandThe pleasure and delight of knowledge and learning it far surpasseth all other in nature
Francis BaconThe only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all.
Harry S. TrumanLearning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it.
Richard BachMen of polite learning and a liberal education.
Matthew HenryLearning sleeps and snores in libraries but wisdom is everywhere wide awake on tiptoe.
Josh BillingsWe were just amazed we were putting out a record. We were and are still learning. But we've never cared much for professionalism as long as the energy was there. Like our live shows: We're out of tune and use a lot of feedback. That's not on purpose or because we don't care we're just musically and rhythmically retarded and we play so hard that we can't tune our guitars fast enough.
Kurt CobainA lot of the problems I had with fame I was bringing on myself. A lot of self-loathing, a lot of woe-is-me. Now I'm learning to see the positive side of things, instead of like 'I can't go to Kmart. I can't take my kids to the haunted house.'
EminemChange is the end result of all true learning.
Leo BuscagliaCuriosity is the wick in the candle of learning.
William Arthur WardSecretary Powell and I agree on every single issue that has ever been before this administration except for those instances where Colin's still learning.
Donald RumsfeldI'm just learning who I am and how relationships work and how to make them function. No different from anyone else.
Drew BarrymoreThose who are destitute of learning penance knowledge good disposition virtue and benevolence are brutes wandering the earth in the form of men. They are burdensome to the earth.
ChanakyaInstead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did why in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.
Will RogersPeople usually think according to their inclinations speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions but generally act according to custom.
Francis BaconWith just enough of learning to misquote
Lord ByronA University should be a place of light of liberty and of learning.
Benjamin DisraeliI never found accents difficult after learning languages.
Vivien LeighSeeing much suffering much and studying much are the three pillars of learning.
Benjamin DisraeliWisdom has never made a bigot but learning has.
Josh BillingsMen have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.
Henry David ThoreauIf I am through learning I am through.
John WoodenIt's only through listening that you learn and I never want to stop learning.
Drew BarrymoreIgnorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive nor yet the greatest of all, but great cleverness and much learning if they be accompanied by a bad training are a much greater misfortune.
PlatoA little learning is a dangerous thing, Drink deep or taste not the Pierian spring.
Alexander PopeMuch learning does not teach understanding.
HeraclitusIf you're going to go through hell... I suggest you come back learning something.
Drew BarrymoreWe do not learn, and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.
PlatoEnglish people don't have very good diction. In France you have to pronounce very particularly and clearly and learning French at an early age helped me enormously.
Vivien LeighLearning without thought is labor lost, thought without learning is perilous.
ConfuciusKings speak for once men of learning once and the daughter is given in marriage once. All these things happen once and only once.
ChanakyaMoral excellence is an ornament for personal beauty, righteous conduct for high birth, success for learning, and proper spending for wealth.
ChanakyaWhat spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable than that of Liberty and Learning each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?
James MadisonWe cannot seek or attain health wealth learning justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific concrete individualized unique.
John DeweyMen's thoughts are much according to their inclination 1 their discourse and speeches according to their learning and infused opinions.
Francis BaconIf you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.
Mark TwainMen commonly think according to their inclinations speak according to their learning and imbibed opinions but generally act according to custom
Francis BaconLeave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.
Thomas JeffersonI don't think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point you ain't interesting.
Jim CarreyThat's what learning is after all, not whether we lose the game but how we lose and how we've changed because of it and what we take away from it that we never had before to apply to other games. Losing in a curious way is winning.
Richard BachDesperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point you ain't interesting.
Jim CarreyWhoso neglects learning in his youth loses the past and is dead for the future.
EuripidesYou can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.
Dr. SeussLearning is a friend on the journey, a wife in the house, medicine in sickness, and religious merit is the only friend after death.
ChanakyaI'm not afraid of storms for I'm learning to sail my ship.
AeschylusSo in my freshman year at the University of Alabama learning the literature on evolution what was known about it biologically just gradually transformed me by taking me out of literalism and increasingly into a more secular scientific view of the world.
E. O. WilsonThere are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation hard work and learning from failure.
Colin PowellA man must serve his time to every trade / Save censure - critics all are ready made. / Take hackneyed jokes from Miller got by rote / With just enough of learning to misquote.
Lord ByronWhy don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth.
Will RogersI did stand-up comedy for 18 years. Ten of those years were spent learning four years were spent refining and four years were spent in wild success. I was seeking comic originality and fame fell on me as a byproduct. The course was more plodding than heroic.
Steve MartinYou aren't learning anything when you're talking.
Lyndon B. JohnsonPoverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.
Lyndon B. JohnsonThe aim of education is to enable individuals to continue their education... (and) the object and reward of learning is continued capacity for growth. Now this idea cannot be applied to all the members of a society except where intercourse of man with man is mutual and except where there is adequate provision for the reconstruction of social habits and institutions by means of wide stimulation arising from equitably distributed interests. And this means a democratic society.
John DeweyThe fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.
Arthur SchopenhauerAnd having wisdom with each studious year in meditation dwelt with learning wrought and shaped his weapon with an edge severe sapping a solemn creed with solemn sneer.
Lord ByronWhen a child is learning to write it is extremely easy for it to hold the pen wrongly and to form its letters incorrectly but it is painfully difficult to hold the pen and to write properly, and this because of the child's ignorance of the art of writing which can only be dispelled by persistent effort and practice until at last it becomes natural and easy to hold the pen properly and to write correctly and difficult as well as altogether unnecessary to do the wrong thing. It is the same in the vital things of mind and life.
James AllenOne must learn by doing the thing, for though you think you know it you have no certainty until you try.
AristotleIt is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.
Henry David ThoreauSuppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so knowledge remains better than ignorance.
Isaac AsimovOne destitute of wealth is not destitute he is indeed rich (if he is learned), but the man devoid of learning is destitute in every way.
ChanakyaThe learning and knowledge that we have is at the most but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.
PlatoLearning is its own exceeding great reward.
William HazlittGenuine ignorance is... profitable, because it is likely to be accompanied by humility, curiosity and open mindedness, whereas ability to repeat catch-phrases, cant terms, familiar propositions, gives the conceit of learning and coats the mind with varnish waterproof to new ideas.
John DeweyLet not a single day pass without your learning a verse half a verse or a fourth of it or even one letter of it, nor without attending to charity study and other pious activity.
ChanakyaOne who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.
Joseph JoubertWisdom is learning what to overlook.
William JamesTo be fond of learning is near to wisdom, to practice with vigor is near to benevolence, and to be conscious of shame is near to fortitude.
ConfuciusThe only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.
Albert CamusLife is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
Samuel ButlerThe truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic not gifted with the necessary scientific learning presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.
Thomas AquinasSome of the companies we helped start are names you know. An office supply company called Staples - where I'm pleased to see the Obama campaign has been shopping, The Sports Authority which became a favorite of my sons. We started an early childhood learning center called Bright Horizons that First Lady Michelle Obama rightly praised.
Mitt RomneyJustice turns the scale bringing to some learning through suffering.
AeschylusAs long as you live keep learning how to live.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaDo not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all then accept it and live up to it.
BuddhaYou are led through your lifetime by the inner learning creature the playful spiritual being that is your real self. Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them.
Richard BachStudy without reflection is a waste of time, reflection without study is dangerous
ConfuciusIf we wish to know the force of human genius we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning we may study his commentators.
William HazlittWords are but wind, and learning is nothing but words, ergo learning is nothing but wind.
Jonathan SwiftO jackal leave aside the body of that man at once whose hands have never given in charity whose ears have not heard the voice of learning whose eyes have not beheld a pure devotee of the Lord whose feet have never traversed to holy places whose belly is filled with things obtained by crooked practices and whose head is held high in vanity. Do not eat it O jackal otherwise you will become polluted.
ChanakyaLearning is finding out what you already know Doing is demonstrating that you know it Teaching is reminding others that they know it as well as you do. We are all learners doers and teachers.
Richard BachNo man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.
Kahlil GibranWe now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.
Peter DruckerI am still learning.
MichelangeloOne of the many lessons that one learns in prison is that things are what they are and will be what they will be.
Oscar WildeIt's such a learning curve. Once you start getting it it usually comes at the end of the season. Everybody is pretty much in rhythm and in tune with one another and then you start playing better.
Kobe BryantI shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.
William ShakespeareI would fain grow old learning many things.
PlatoOne of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
John W. GardnerProud of his learning (just enough to quote) He revell'd in his Ciceronian glory: With memory excellent to get by rote With wit to hatch a pun or tell a story Graced with some merit and with more effrontery 'His country's pride ' he came down to
Lord ByronLearning n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.
Ambrose BierceLearning too soon our limitations we never learn our powers.
Mignon McLaughlinGod lets everything happen for a reason. It's all a learning process and you have to go from one level to another.
Mike TysonLearning is finding out what you already know.
Richard BachI think it's a learning experience. We've learned we have to do a better job of closing those games. We'd much rather have won them, but we're not that far off. A play here and there and we're in a completely different position right now.
Kobe Bryant