Learning Quotes

6496 Learning quotes by 3451 unique authors

Grades are a problem. On the most general level, they're an explicit acknowledgment that what you're doing is insufficiently interesting or rewarding for you to… — Derrick Jensen
Experience is the best teacher, but the tuition is high. — Norwegian Proverb
LORE, n. Learning --particularly that sort which is not derived from a regular course of instruction but comes of the reading of occult books, or… — Ambrose Bierce
The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but of the nature of learning; whereas, the experience gained from actual life is of the… — Samuel Smiles
What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more leisure and less… — Samuel Gompers
Some on commission, some for the love of learning, Some because they have nothing better to do Or because they hope these walls of books… — Louis MacNeice
After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades… — Richard Dawkins
Men commonly think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and imbibed opinions, but generally act according to custom — Francis Bacon Sr
Learning is the knowledge of that which is not generally known to others, and which we can only derive at second-hand from books or other… — William Hazlitt
Learning hath gained most by those books by which printers have lost. — Thomas Fuller
A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: There shallow Draughts intoxicate the Brain, And drinking largely sobers… — Alexander Pope
Charles V said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so valued learning, that he used to… — Thomas Babington Macaulay
Those who are enslaved to their sects are not merely devoid of all sound knowledge, but they will never even stop to learn — Marcus Aurelius
IGNORAMUS, n. A person unacquainted with certain kinds of knowledge familiar to yourself, and having certain other kinds that you know nothing about. Dumble was… — Ambrose Bierce
Civilization is just a slow process of learning to be kind — Tennessee Williams
The best thing for being sad, replied Merlyn, beginning to puff and blow, is to learn something. That is the only thing that never fails.… — Theodore White
God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons we could not learn in any other way. The… — Unknown Author
My invitation to you is to begin living every moment as though you are miraculous and deserve to live an extraordinary life. Fake it if… — Robert White
It may come as a severe shock if you havent given much thought to this subject beforebut our precious, cast-in-stone, objective beliefs are often totally… — Robert White
A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on a cold iron. — Horace Mann
It is good to love God for hope of reward, but it is better to love God for love½s sake; and the prayer goes: O… — Swami Vivekananda
There is always something left to love. And if you ain't learned that, you ain't learned nothing. Have you cried for that boy today? I… — Lorraine Hansberry
When we begin to take our failures non-seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is immense importance to learn to… — Katherine Mansfield
We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality… — John W. Gardner
Live to live and you will learn to live — Portuguese Proverb

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