Learning Quotes, Proverbs & Sayings - Page 10

If you give me rice, I’ll eat today; if you teach me how to grow rice, I’ll eat every day.
Mahatma Gandhi

Give a man a fish, and he’ll eat for a day. Teach him how to fish and he’ll eat forever.
Chinese Proverb

A positive learning climate in a school for young children is a composite of many things. It is an attitude that respects children. It is a place where children receive guidance and encouragement from the responsible adults around them. It is an environment where children can experiment and try out new ideas without fear or failure. It is an atmosphere that builds children’s self-confidence so they dare to take risks. It is an environment that nurtures a love of learning.
Carol B. Hillman

I must learn to love the fool in me the one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too many chances, wins sometimes and loses often, lacks self-control, loves and hates, hurts and gets hurt, promises and breaks promises, laughs and cries.
Theodore Isaac Rubin

If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world has wasted a great deal of time.
Russell Hoban

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.
Francis Bacon

For where is any author in the world
Teaches such beauty as a woman’s eye?
Learning is but an adjunct to oneself.
William Shakespeare

Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.
Og Mandino

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.
Henry Ford

The early years were more about learning than about acting. I had to carry on my father’s work, which was a big challenge.
Azim Premji

I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

I take away something from every role. I’m still learning and that’s what life is about.
Cary Elwes

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward

I’m a big believer in growth. Life is not about achievement, it’s about learning and growth, and developing qualities like compassion, patience, perseverance, love, and joy, and so forth. And so if that is the case, then I think our goals should include something which stretches us.
Jack Canfield

Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn.
Alice Miller

There’s no mystery to it. Nothing more complicated than learning lines and putting on a costume.
Morgan Freeman

I continuously go further and further learning about my own limitations, my body limitation, psychological limitations. It’s a way of life for me.
Ayrton Senna

You have to study your field and you have to find out how other people do it, and you have to keep working and learning and practicing and ultimately, you would be able to do it.
Theodore Sturgeon

The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown.
Albert Einstein

I would fain grow old learning many things.
Plato

It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
Jacob Bronowski

You must learn day by day, year by year, to broaden your horizons. The more things you love, the more things you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about.
Ethyl Barrymore

The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
Williams James

There is no difference between living and learning . . . it is impossible and misleading and harmful to think of them as being separate. Teaching is human communication and like all communication, elusive and difficult…we must be wary of the feeling that we know what we are doing in class. When we are most sure of what we are doing, we may be closest to being a bore.
John Holt

Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.
Francis Bacon

I don’t love studying. I hate studying. I like learning. Learning is beautiful.
Natalie Portman

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.
Andy Warhol

If you’re going to go through hell… I suggest you come back learning something.
Drew Barrymore

Writing is learning to say nothing, more cleverly each day.
William Allingham

The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.
John Lubbock

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