Quotes about learning

By learning you will teach, by teaching you will learn.

— Latin Proverb

A man can learn only two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.

— Will Rogers

Income seldom exceeds personal development.

— Jim Rohn

Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.

— Jim Rohn

It takes a great deal of living to get a little deal of learning.

— John Ruskin

It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.

— Leslie Jeanne Sahler

As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible but more mysterious.

— Albert Schweitzer

That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned.

— Seneca

You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you.

— Barbara Sher

I would by no means wish a daughter of mine to be a progeny of learning; I don't think so much learning becomes a young woman: for instance, I would never let her meddle with Greek, or Hebrew, or algebra, or simony, or fluxions, or paradoxes, or such inflammatory branches of learning; nor will it be necessary for her to handle any of your mathematical, astronomical, diabolical instruments; but... I would send her, at nine years old, to a boarding-school, in order to learn a little ingenuity and artifice: then, sir, she would have a supercilious knowledge in accounts, and, as she grew up, I would have her instructed in geometry, that she might know something of the contagious countries: this is what I would have a woman know; and I don't think there is a superstitious article in it.

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.

— Lillian Smith

Oh, that one could learn to learn in time!

— Enrique Solari

I grow old learning something new every day.

— Solon

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is the knowledge of our own ignorance.

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.

— Gloria Steinem

People are constantly clamoring for the joy of life. As for me, I find the joy of life in the hard and cruel battle of life -- to learn something is a joy to me.

— J. August Strindberg

Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.

— Brian Tracy

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

— Leon Trotsky

Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.

— Mark Twain

Never learn to do anything. If you don't learn, you will always find someone else to do it for you.

— Mark Twain

He who is proficient is learning, but deficient in morals, is more deficient than proficient.

— Source Unknown

Some people will never learn anything well, because they understand everything too soon.

— Source Unknown

Many people realize their hearts desires late in life. Continue learning, never stop striving and keep your curiosity sharp, and you will never become too old to appreciate life.

— Source Unknown

Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, teachers.

— Source Unknown

Learn to follow counsel, serve faithfully, and magnify your calling, for God's kingdom is a kingdom of order.

— Source Unknown

If you were graduated yesterday, and have learned nothing today, you will be uneducated tomorrow.

— Source Unknown

It is what we learn after we think we know it all, that counts.

— Source Unknown

True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.

— Abigail Van Buren

Enter on the way of training while the spirits in youth are still pliable.

— Virgil

All of the top achievers I know are life-long learners... Looking for new skills, insights, and ideas. If they're not learning, they're not growing... not moving toward excellence.

— Denis Waitley

Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.

— Denis Waitley

You must continue to gain expertise, but avoid thinking like an expert.

— Denis Waitley

I forget what I was taught. I only remember what I have learnt.

— Patrick White

Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?

— Walt Whitman

The mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-?-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value.

— Oscar Wilde

Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient.

— Eugene S. Wilson

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

— John Wooden

Unlearned men of books are like the eunuchs who are guardians of the beautiful.

— Young

Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little wordings enjoy.

— Edward Young

You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.

— Jon Kabat Zinn

I learned from Bruce Lee, "Be like water" and Gil Grissom from CSI, "Be like sponge.

— James Dye

Everyone learns in about the same way, but some people are better at it than others.

— Earl Stevick

WE ARE BORN TO NEVER STOP LEARNING.

— Tadj Abelkader

The one who does the talking, does the learning

— Lev Vygotsky

A little learning is a dangerous thing. Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring; There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain; And drinking largely sobers us again.

— Alexander Pope

When one teaches, two learn.

— Source Unknown

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

— Albert Einstein