Learning Quotes, Proverbs & Sayings - Page 7



Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
John F. Kennedy

Knowledge is more a matter of learning than of the exercise of absolute judgment. Learning requires time, and in time the situation dealt with, as well as the learner, undergoes change.
Frank H. Knight

Learn as much as you can while you are young, since life becomes too busy later.
Dana Stewart Scott

It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.
Carl Friedrich Gauss

Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow.
William Pollard

If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.
Confucius

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Nelson Mandela

By nature men are pretty much alike; it is learning and practice that set them apart.
Confucius

It’s not the teaching, it’s the learning.
Sly Stone

The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.
Cecil B. De Mille

Don’t look where you fall, but where you slipped.
African Proverb

All the world is a laboratory to the inquiring mind.
Martin H. Fischer

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
B. F. Skinner

The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you are learning you’re not old.
Rosalyn Sussman

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

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.
Warren G. Bennis

Well, until this very day, I’m still learning.
Dennis Brown

I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
Socrates

In doing we learn.
George Herbert

A good teacher must be able to put himself in the place of those who find learning hard.
Eliphas Levi

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spend doing nothing.
George Bernard Shaw

The drive to learn is as strong as the sexual drive. It begins earlier and lasts longer.
Edward T Hall

An organization’s ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.
Jack Welch

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.
Benjamin Disraeli

What I hear, I forget.
What I see, I remember.
What I do, I understand.
Kung Fu Tzu

I see, I forget. I hear, I remember. I do, I understand.
Chinese Proverb

The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.
Henry S. Haskins

Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.
Ambrose Bierce

The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading.
Pablo Neruda

Learning and teaching should not stand on opposite banks and just watch the river flow by; instead, they should embark together on a journey down the water. Through an active, reciprocal exchange, teaching can strengthen learning how to learn.
Loris Malaguzzi

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