Learning Quotes

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Arthur Schopenhauer

Isaac Asimov

Leon Trotsky

Bill Gates

Ellsworth Huntington

Lorraine Hansberry

Laura Bush

Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies.

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

Arthur Schopenhauer

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know — and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.

Lovely weather so far. I don't know how long it will last, but I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship.

Louisa May Alcott

Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.

It is no small mischief to a boy, that many of the best years of his life should be devoted to the learning of what can never be of any real use to any human being. His mind is necessarily rendered frivolous and superficial by the long habit of attaching importance to words instead of things; to sound instead of sense.

William Cobbett

The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you're learning you're not old.

Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

We are learning, too, that the love of beauty is one of Nature's greatest healers.

Ellsworth Huntington

Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not pull it out and strike it; merely to show that you have one.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

Taking charge of your own learning is a part of taking charge of your life, which is the sine qua non in becoming an integrated person.

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 don't mean for yourself and for the family 'cause we lost the money. I mean for him; what he's been through and what it done to him. Child, when do you think is the time to love somebody the most; when they done good and made things easy for everybody? Well then, you ain't through learning — because that ain't the time at all. It's when he's at his lowest and can't believe in hisself 'cause the world done whipped him so. When you starts measuring somebody, measure him right child, measure him right. Make sure you done taken into account what hills and valleys he come through before he got to wherever he is.

Lorraine Hansberry

"The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then — to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn."

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

To know ourselves, is agreed by all to be the most useful Learning; the first Lessons, therefore, given us ought to be on that Subject.

Life is about learning; when you stop learning, you die.

Kindness has converted more sinners than either zeal, eloquence, or learning.

Frederick William Faber

Year by year we are learning that in this restless, strenuous American life of ours vacations are essential.

Ellsworth Huntington

The best way of learning to be an independent sovereign state is to be an independent sovereign state.

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.

Learning is any change in a system that produces a more or less permanent change in its capacity for adapting to its environment.

Herbert A. Simon

There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.

Narcissist: psychoanalytic term for the person who loves himself more than his analyst; considered to be the manifestation of a dire mental disease whose successful treatment depends on the patient learning to love the analyst more and himself less.

Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.

Robert J. Sawyer

The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.