Learning Quotes, Proverbs & Sayings - Page 8



You will have to learn many tedious things,…which you will forget the moment you have passed your final examination, but in anatomy it is better to have learned and lost than never to have learned at all.
W. Somerset Maugham

I think there’s too much emphasis placed on learning things by rote that you don’t really care about. So what happens to students in school is that they eventually lose interest in learning, because they’ve been forced to learn the required courses, rather than pursing their passion.
Jack Canfield

God lets everything happen for a reason. It’s all a learning process, and you have to go from one level to another.
Mike Tyson

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
Douglas Adams

Most learning disabilities are actually teaching disabilities on the part of the school.
Anonymous

Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.
Thomas Jefferson

I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.
Eartha Kitt

The things we know best are the things we haven’t been taught.
Luc Vauvenargues, Marquis de

Don’t go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

You learn at your best when you have something you care about and can get pleasure in being engaged in.
Howard Gardner

Knowing is not enough; we must apply.
Willing is not enough we must do.
Goethe

A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
Frederick Douglass

Learning can take place in the backyard if there is a human being there who cares about the child. Before learning computers, children should learn to read first. They should sit around the dinner table and hear what their parents have to say and think.
Dixie Carter

Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
Petrarch

I loved education, and, yes, I did want to go on learning.
Arthur Hailey

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
Bill Gates

Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence.
Pearl Bailey

Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student.
George Iles

In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
Eric Hoffer

There are two reasons why people learn one because someone said you can’t and the other because someone said you can.
Howard Wilson

The only way to learn is by changing your mind.
Orson Scott Card

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can’t find them, make them.
George Bernard Shaw

Learning lines is on my mind until I do know them. I’ll read the paper or paint the house to keep from starting to memorize. I’ve never found an easy way.
Paul Lynde

My philosophy is that life is all about learning and growing, and that life can be a real adventure of learning, growing, compassion, and joyfulness.
John Mackey

You have learned something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.
H.G. Wells

Man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

I now know that I learn by solving problems as they arise. Rarely do we learn significant lessons, or significantly improve, any other way.
Bob Parsons

Retention is best when the learner is involved.
Edward Scannell

You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers. You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.
W. Somerset Maugham

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

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