Learning Quotes

6496 Learning quotes by 3451 unique authors

Abandon learning and there will be no sorrow. — Laozi
I have always had a curious nature; I enjoy learning, but I dislike being taught. — Winston Churchill
There is no learning without having to pose a question. And a question requires doubt. — Richard P. Feynman
Learning is not the accumulation of knowledge. Learning is movement from moment to moment. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
The lower classes of men, though they do not think it worthwhile to record what they perceive, nevertheless perceive everything that is worth noting; the… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
Of journeying the benefits are many: the freshness it bringeth to the heart, the seeing and hearing of marvelous things, the delight of beholding new… — Saadi
What many men desire--that 'many' may be meant By the fool multitude that choose by show, Not learning more than the fond eye doth teach,… — William Shakespeare
Nature attains perfection, but man never does. There is a perfect ant, a perfect bee, but man is perpetually unfinished. He is both an unfinished… — Eric Hoffer
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… — Eric Hoffer
The man whose acquisitions stick is the man who is always achieving and advancing whilst his neighbors, spending most of their time in relearning what… — William James
A coquette is a young lady of more beauty than sense, more accomplishments than learning, more charms not person than graces of mind, more admirers… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The sole concern of learning is to seek one's original heart. — Mencius
There is a certain race of men that either imagine it their duty, or make it their amusement, to hinder the reception of every work… — Samuel Johnson
I am not learning definitions as established in even the latest dictionaries. I am not a dictionary-maker. I am a person a dictionary-maker has to… — William Stafford
An hour or two of learning from the masters is usually enough to recharge my artistic batteries. — James Dean
Life is just the same as learning to swim. Do not be afraid of making mistakes, for there is no other way of learning how… — Alfred Adler
It's not so much what you have to learn if you accept weird theories, it's what you have to UNlearn. — Isaac Asimov
There is a satisfactory and available power in every one to learn drawing if he wishes, just as nearly all persons have the power of… — John Ruskin
Any writer worth his salt knows that only a small proportion of literature does nore than partly compensate people for the damage they have suffered… — Rebecca West
School is an institution built on the axiom that learning is the result of teaching. And institutional wisdom continues to accept this axiom, despite overwhelming… — Ivan Illich
Silence! I am learning to know the silence of a Tahitian night. — Paul Gauguin
The public wants to understand and learn in a single day, a single minute, what the artist has spent years learning. — Paul Gauguin
Ask yourself, 'Why am I seeing and feeling this? How am I growing? What am I learning?' Remember: Every coincidence is potentially meaningful. — Ansel Adams
I am learning that if I just go on accepting the framework for life that others have given me, if I fail to make my… — Liv Ullmann
The great use of copying, if it be at all useful, should seem to be in learning color; yet even coloring will never be perfectly… — Joshua Reynolds

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