Learning Quotes

"Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning."

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

"If someone is better than you at something, then it's likely because she has failed at it more than you have. If someone is worse than you, it's likely because he hasn't been through all of the painful learning experiences you have."

"The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all."

"That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way."

"When 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."

"Learning to give up on perfection may be just about the most romantic move any of us could make."

"You're always learning. The problem is, sometimes you stop and think you understand the world. This is not correct. The world is always moving. You never reach the point you can stop making an effort."

"Big stuff and little: learning how to order breakfast in a country where I don't speak the language and haven't been before - that's really satisfying to me. I like that."

"There will be a great loss of learning before the moon's full cycle is completed. Fire and floods will be fomented by ignorant rulers; much time will go by before it is rectified."

"It'd be nice to learn enough from each mistake that we'd be guaranteed to never repeat that same mistake twice. But, how many times have you said, 'I'll never do that again,' only to find yourself right back at it a few days later. Learning from our mistakes requires humility and a willingness to look for new strategies to become better."

"A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people."

"I'm a firm believer in learning by heart."

"I'm always interested in learning something new."

"I'm learning that you can be comfortable and still look beautiful."

"Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors."

"People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly."

"Getting to know God by His names is more than simply learning a new word or discovering a new title He goes by. Learning to know God by His names opens up the door to knowing His character more fully and experiencing His power more deeply."

"I was never ignorant, as far as being experienced in classrooms and learning about different subjects and actually soaking it up, so I checked into college for a little bit. I took classes at a community college in West L.A. I took psychology, English, and philosophy."

"We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection."

"The only thing that mattered was what you were to do in life, and it wasn't about money. It was about teaching, or learning."

"Something about the cultural tradition of Jews is way, way more sympathetic to science and learning and intellectual pursuits than Islam."

"Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns."

"I think everything that you do, you're learning. I mean, every movie that you make is like a film school; that's one of the things that I enjoy about filmmaking."

"When I was learning to creep, my mother set me down on the beach to see what I thought of it. I crawled straight for the coming wave and was just through the wall of green when she caught my heels."

"We must all learn a good lesson - how to live together. That is the new challenge of the new world... learning to co-exist and not co-annihilate."

"Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous."

"Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote."

"Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering."

"I started doing comedy because that was the only stage that I could find. It was the pure idea of being on stage. That was the only thing that interested me, along with learning the craft and working, and just being in productions with people."

"Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?"

"I'd love to go to fashion week! I'm learning more about designers, thanks to 'Pretty Little Liars' costume designer, Mandi Line."

"There has to be innate circuitry that does the learning, that creates the culture, that acquires the culture, and that responds to socialization."

"Most of my hobbies involve athletics and outdoor activities. I'm willing to learn about anything and converse and pick people's brains, and I ask people to do the same. I'm into learning anything new and trying new stuff."

"Sister Hinckley and I are learning that the so-called golden years are laced with lead."

"I can install toilets. I know all about the wax ring. I can tile floors. I'm learning how to do basic wiring."

"The computer is my favourite invention. I feel lucky to be part of the global village. I don't mean to brag, but I'm so fast with technology. People think it all seems too much, but we'll get used to it. I'm sure it all seemed too much when we were learning to walk."

"Learning to make films is very easy. Learning what to make films about is very hard."

"What 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?"

"The young are adept at learning, but even more adept at avoiding it."

"Getting bogged down in old stories stops the flow of learning by censoring our perceptions, making us functionally deaf and blind to new information. Once the replay button gets pushed, we no longer form new ideas or conclusions - the old ones are so cozy."

"Why 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."

"If I've learned anything through all of this, it's that each and every day is a canvas waiting to be painted - an opportunity for love, for fun, for living, for learning."

"I like school and I like learning."

"People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom."

"At Microsoft, we're aspiring to have a living, learning culture with a growth mindset that allows us to learn from ourselves and our customers. These are the key attributes of the new culture at Microsoft, and I feel great about how it seems to be resonating and how it's seen as empowering."

"We must educate and train our children to compete and succeed in the 21st century. Our kids are not going to grow up to compete with children in Alabama or Mississippi. They're going to grow up to compete with kids in India, and China, all over the world; children who are learning to compete and succeed in the 21st century themselves."

"Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning."

"If you're going to go through hell... I suggest you come back learning something."

"The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss."