Quotes & anectdotes from the wise, the foolish, the courageous & the drunk

learning

Much learning does not teach understanding. 10 quotes from Heraclitus

A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin. 12 wisdom & wit from George Herbert

It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment. 3 sayings from Carl Friedrich Gauss

Learning is its own exceeding great reward. 38 views from William Hazlitt

Learning never exhausts the mind. 27 other views from Leonardo da Vinci

Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe. 42 wisdom & wit from Josh Billings

One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more. 18 views from Washington Irving

Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge. 16 other quotes from David Hume

There is no royal road to learning no short cut to the acquirement of any art. 9 quotes from Anthony Trollope

Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book. 14 sayings from Edward Gibbon

We are a long time in learning that all our strength and salvation is in God. 4 quotes from David Brainerd

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die. 27 quotes from Leonardo da Vinci

Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has. 42 views from Josh Billings

A little learning is a dangerous thing Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring. 43 quotes from Alexander Pope

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time. 35 quotes from Rabindranath Tagore

Everything I learned I learned from the movies. 14 sayings from Audrey Hepburn

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet. 14 views from Joseph Joubert

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life. 135 sayings from Ralph Waldo Emerson

If your faith is opposed to experience, to human learning and investigation, it is not worth the breath used in giving it expression. 23 quotes from E. W. Howe

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other. 46 sayings from John F. Kennedy

Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment. 10 quotes from Novalis

No man ever prayed heartily without learning something. 135 quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson

One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet. 14 other quotes from Joseph Joubert

The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all. 26 sayings from Harry S. Truman

There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning. 15 sayings from Christopher Morley

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something. 33 other quotes from Thomas Huxley

Kindness has converted more sinners than zeal, eloquence, or learning. 2 thoughts from Frederick William Faber

Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow. 2 more views from William Pollard

Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers. 21 more quotes from Mignon McLaughlin

Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit. 16 views from Vince Lombardi

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you. 26 quotes from Frank Lloyd Wright

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold. 115 other thoughts from George Bernard Shaw

Books have led some to learning and others to madness. 3 quotes from Petrarch

Directors who turn into big babies and shut out criticism stop learning. 5 views from Richard King

He that knew all that learning ever writ, Knew only this - that he knew nothing yet. 5 more views from Aphra Behn

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it. 115 views from George Bernard Shaw

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen. 35 quotes from Ernest Hemingway

I never learned from a man who agreed with me. 14 more quotes from Robert A. Heinlein

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience. 115 wisdom & wit from George Bernard Shaw

It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know. 117 more thoughts from Henry David Thoreau

It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning. 7 other sayings from Claude Bernard

Learning to trust is one of life's most difficult tasks. 3 other quotes from Isaac Watts

Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value. 15 quotes from Jean de La Fontaine

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve. 117 other views from Henry David Thoreau

Much learning shows how little mortals know much wealth, how little wordings enjoy. 14 wisdom & wit from Edward Young

Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote. 14 views from Edward Young

Only the other world has substance and reality only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth. 6 sayings from Abraham Cahan

Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty. 24 wisdom & wit from Lyndon B. Johnson

Smatterers in learning are the most opinionated. 22 more thoughts from Samuel Richardson

To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance. 8 other thoughts from Jeremy Taylor

You aren't learning anything when you're talking. 24 wisdom & wit from Lyndon B. Johnson

I am just learning to notice the different colors of the stars, and already begin to have a new enjoyment. 8 other wisdom & wit from Maria Mitchell

The world of learning is so broad, and the human soul is so limited in power! 8 views from Maria Mitchell

Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual. 4 quotes from Arthur Koestler

The best way of learning to be an independent sovereign state is to be an independent sovereign state. 2 more quotes from Kwame Nkrumah

We are learning, too, that the love of beauty is one of Nature's greatest healers. 2 thoughts from Ellsworth Huntington

Year by year we are learning that in this restless, strenuous American life of ours vacations are essential. 2 sayings from Ellsworth Huntington

Belief gets in the way of learning. 4 quotes from Jeremy Collier

Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature which one would think, might dispose us to modesty. 4 other quotes from Jeremy Collier

A happy life is one spent in learning, earning, and yearning. 2 more quotes from Lillian Gish

Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country. 36 more thoughts from Theodore Roosevelt

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching. 100 more thoughts from Oscar Wilde

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance one cannot fly into flying. 103 thoughts from Friedrich Nietzsche

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it. 29 more quotes from Pablo Picasso

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance. 13 sayings from e. e. cummings

Learning how to operate a soul figures to take time. 6 sayings from Timothy Leary

Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival. 8 sayings from W. Edwards Deming

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. 100 wisdom & wit from Mahatma Gandhi

Men of polite learning and a liberal education. 7 other sayings from Matthew Henry

Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns. 15 sayings from William Penn

But the important thing about learning to wait, I feel sure, is to know what you are waiting for. 2 quotes from Anna Neagle

My entire learning process is slow, because I have no visual memory. 2 other quotes from Georg Solti

A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people. 57 quotes from Will Rogers

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer. 11 quotes from Bruce Lee

All are agreed, that the increase of learning and good morals are great blessings to society. 2 quotes from Joseph Lancaster

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught. 74 sayings from Winston Churchill

I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship. 10 quotes from Louisa May Alcott

I never found accents difficult, after learning languages. 5 quotes from Vivien Leigh

I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship. 10 more views from Louisa May Alcott

Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies. 3 more quotes from Leon Trotsky

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence. 5 other thoughts from Abigail Adams

Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable. 20 more quotes from George S. Patton

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free. 18 wisdom & wit from Baruch Spinoza

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone. 52 wisdom & wit from Albert Camus

To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person. 11 more views from Bruce Lee

We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us. 2 thoughts from Lucy Maud Montgomery

Words are but wind and learning is nothing but words ergo, learning is nothing but wind. 19 quotes from Jonathan Swift

A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning. 75 other quotes from Benjamin Disraeli

I learned the value of hard work by working hard. 18 quotes from Margaret Mead

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. 68 more sayings from Samuel Butler

No man is the wiser for his learning it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon but wit and wisdom are born with a man. 2 more quotes from John Selden

Philosophy is a kind of journey, ever learning yet never arriving at the ideal perfection of truth. 5 more thoughts from Albert Pike

Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning. 75 other thoughts from Benjamin Disraeli

When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die. 3 other views from Lillian Smith

An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning. 12 quotes from Thomas a Kempis

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn. 96 more thoughts from Benjamin Franklin

Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning. 14 views from William Arthur Ward

I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness. 2 other quotes from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost. 45 quotes from Thomas Fuller

No, I'm no enemy to learning it hurts not me. 10 views from William Congreve

Not to unlearn what you have learned is the most necessary kind of learning. 5 quotes from Antisthenes

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn. 96 wisdom & wit from Benjamin Franklin

The least of the work of learning is done in the classroom. 12 wisdom & wit from Thomas Merton

The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue. 5 other thoughts from Antisthenes

To make no mistakes is not in the power of man but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future. 17 thoughts from Plutarch

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools. 41 views from Martin Luther King, Jr.

Wisdom is learning what to overlook. 40 other sayings from William James

If you desire ease, forsake learning. 2 other wisdom & wit from Nagarjuna

In mine opinion, love is fitter than fear, gentleness better than beating, to bring up a child rightly in learning. 6 other views from Roger Ascham

It is no secret that the fruits of language study are in no sort of relation to the labour spent on teaching and learning them. 2 other wisdom & wit from Edward Sapir

Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty. 6 sayings from Roger Ascham

There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise. 6 wisdom & wit from Roger Ascham

Young children were sooner allured by love, than driven by beating, to attain good learning. 6 other quotes from Roger Ascham

A little learning is not a dangerous thing to one who does not mistake it for a great deal. 3 more thoughts from William Allen White

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books. 26 quotes from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. 7 other thoughts from Galileo Galilei

In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed. 8 wisdom & wit from Charles Darwin

Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat. 9 more sayings from Audre Lorde

Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors. 29 other quotes from Arthur Schopenhauer

The audience, upon learning that the real Buffalo Bill was present, gave several cheers between the acts. 7 more sayings from Buffalo Bill

The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable. 29 thoughts from Arthur Schopenhauer

The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot. 9 more quotes from Audre Lorde

The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books. 26 views from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer. 9 quotes from William S. Burroughs

All the learning in the world cannot replace instinct. 2 other wisdom & wit from Robert Ley

Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century. 2 other quotes from S. J. Perelman

Well, until this very day, I'm still learning. 3 quotes from Dennis Brown

You see, that is it with music, you never stop learning. 3 quotes from Dennis Brown

Change is the end result of all true learning. 17 more views from Leo Buscaglia

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school. 105 sayings from Albert Einstein

Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence. 7 views from Pearl Bailey

I am still learning. 16 other quotes from Michelangelo

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it? 105 other quotes from Albert Einstein

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education. 105 other thoughts from Albert Einstein

Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much. 5 quotes from William Godwin