Learning Quotes, Proverbs & Sayings - Page 14

Rarely is the question asked, is our children learning?
George Bushism

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
James Boswell

I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a “learning experience.” Then again, I like to think of anything stupid I’ve done as a “learning experience.” It makes me feel less stupid.
P. J. O’Rourke

Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get when you don’t.
Pete Seeger

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.
Titus Maccius Plautus

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

Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.
Abbé Dimnet (Art of Thinking, 1928)

Going to a party, for me, is as much a learning experience as, you know, sitting in a lecture.
Natalie Portman

What gives people superiority at a task is true intention. That makes you attuned to everything.
Weiner Erhard

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
Euripides

Since there is no single set of abilities running throughout human nature, there is no single curriculum which all should undergo. Rather, the schools should teach everything that anyone is interested in learning.
John Dewey

Underneath the visible problems with reading and writing lies the deeper problem of ‘illearnacy’: an acquired disabling of learning courage and learning initiative.
Guy Claxton

I think in business, you have to learn to be patient. Maybe I’m not very patient myself. And I think what I’ve learned the most is be able to wait for something and get it when it’s the right time.
Bernard Arnault

To be ignorant of what happened before you were born… is to live the life of a child for ever.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Wisdom is not communicable. The wisdom which a wise man tries to communicate always sounds foolish.
Herman Hesse

When you know something, say what you know. When you don’t know something, say that you don’t know. That is knowledge.
Kung Fu Tzu

The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

I thank God, we have not free schools nor printing; and I hope we shall not have these hundred years. For learning has brought disobedience, and heresy and sects into the world; and printing has divulged them and libels against the government. God keep us from both!
Sir William Berkeley

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.
Marcel Proust

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
Benjamin Disraeli

Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.
Aldous Huxley

The wind which snuffs the candle fans the fire.
La Rochefoucauld

And there is the point exactly, we are all the time blaming difficulties on to something else. Our real trouble is that we are too soft to solve the problem.
Charles F. Kettering

There is no teaching until the pupil is brought into the same state or principle in which you are; a transfusion takes place; he is you, and you are he; then is a teaching; and by no unfriendly chance or bad company can he ever lose the benefit.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.
Dr. Haim Ginott

When choosing between two evils I always like to take the one I’ve never tried before.
Mae West

Time as he grows old teaches all things.
Aeschylus

Learn to look at every difficult situation as a present; the gift within is the possibilities it holds. To open the gift you must find the ‘possibility’.
Catherine Pulsifer

In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
Paul Eldridge

If there is a way to do it better… find it!
Thomas Edison

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