Learning Quotes

Suffering is one of life's great teachers.

Being stubborn won't make you fluent. Practicing will! The more mistakes you make, the more you'll learn not to.

We learn to do by doing.

With too much pride a man cannot learn a thing. In and of itself, learning teaches you how foolish you are.

The truth is usually left for us to hunt and gather independently, if we are so inclined.

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.

The only things you learn are the things you tame

I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays and have things arranged for them that they seem so forlornly unable to produce their own ideas.

The mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-à-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value.

Things that people learn purely out of curiosity can have a revolutionary effect on human affairs.

A handful of good life is better than a bushel of learning.

Mind you, there is no value in learning. You are all mistaken in learning. The only value of knowledge is in the strengthening, the disciplining, of the mind.

Someone taught me how to eat properly. Learning from others is important when it's not working for yourself.

The key to success is dedication to life-long learning.

Those who have dissected or inspected many [bodies] have at least learnt to doubt; while others who are ignorant of anatomy and do not take the trouble to attend it are in no doubt at all.

Learning is not a product of teaching . kids are born learning. They learn how to walk, how to talk. They're basically little scientists. If we don't stop that process, it will continue.

I liked the education. I liked people learning things all around me and I liked going to people's classes.

Underneath the visible problems with reading and writing lies the deeper problem of 'illearnacy': an acquired disabling of learning courage and learning initiative.

See that any time you feel pained or defeated, it is only because you insist on clinging to what doesn't work. Dare to let go and you won't lose a thing except for a punishing idea.

The easiest programs to use are those which demand the least new learning from the user

The systems they (the Arts) nourish, which include our integrated sensory, attentional, cognitive, emotional, and motor capacities, are, in fact, the driving forces behind all other learning.

Animals can learn, but it is not by learning that they become dogs, cats, or horses. Only man has to learn to become what he is supposed to be.

All perception of truth is the detection of an analogy.

Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.

To know that you do not know and to be willing to admit that you do not know without sheepishly apologizing is real strength and sets the stage for learning and progress in any endeavor.

As a child, I loved being onstage. I loved singing, I loved the lights, I loved the adrenaline. I even loved learning lines. I was completely obsessive.

Arrogance, pedantry, and dogmatism...the occupational diseases of those who spend their lives directing the intellects of the young.

She was already learning that if you ignore the rules people will, half the time, quietly rewrite them so that they don't apply to you.

Angling is an art, and an art worth your learning.

Learning is not watching a video, learning is taking action and seeing what happens.

Anxiety checks learning. A feeling of well being and respect stimulates an alert mind.

In the particular is contained the universal.

What we learn to do, we learn by doing.

To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

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

Your tax dollars are being used to pay for grade school classes that teach our children that CANNIBALISM, WIFE-SWAPPING, and the MURDER of infants and the elderly are acceptable behavior.

The beginning of love for the brethren is learning to listen to them.

Meditation provides a way of learning how to let go. As we sit, the self we've been trying to construct and make into a nice, neat package continues to unravel.

I spent the first half of my career learning what to put into my work, and the second half learning what to leave out.

Throwing people out of a game is like learning to ride a bicycle--once you get the hang of it, it can be a lot of fun.

The only way to learn is to keep doing something new, and, if you're lucky, learning with people who really know how to do it.

That's what I think is the biggest challenge, is just being still and learning how to just be present in that stillness and not over do it, not over act.

I'm enjoying where I'm at in my life and I feel like I'm learning a lot on a daily basis. I'm learning without having to be behind a desk, so it's a pretty cool place to be.

Learning what not to do is sometimes more important than learning what to do.

A breakthrough in machine learning would be worth ten Microsofts.

I'm glad I understand that while language is a gift, listening is a responsibility. (U.S. poet and writer, 1943- )

Probably the most important skill that children learn is how to learn. ... Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve. This is a mistake.

Becoming human means discovering our fullness and learning to live from it.

At a time when so many scholars in the world are calculating, is it not desirable that some, who can, dream ?

The name of the game is continuing to learn. Even if you're very well trained and have some natural aptitude, you still need to keep learning.