Learning Quotes - page 4

Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause a while from learning to be wise. There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail. (Samuel Johnson)
These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness. View quote
Anthony de Mello
Well had the boding tremblers learn'd to trace The day's disasters in his morning face Full well they laugh'd with counterfeited glee At all his jokes, for many a joke had he Full well the busy whisper circling round Convey'd the dismal tidings when he frown'd. Yet was he kind, or if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was in fault The village all declar'd how much he knew, 'Twas certain he could write and cipher too. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
Learning is finding out what you already know. View quote
Richard Bach
That's what learning is, after all not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we've changed because of it and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way, is winning. View quote
Richard Bach
Learning is finding out what we 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 and teachers. View quote
Richard Bach
Change is the end result of all true learning. View quote
Leo Buscaglia
It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them. View quote
Leo Buscaglia
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. View quote
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
I'm learning as much martial arts as I possibly can. My show is packed with action. Enough to get a rise. View quote
Traci Bingham
Philosophy is written in this grand book, which stands continually open before our eyes (I say the 'Universe'), but can not be understood without first learning to comprehend the language and know the characters as it is written. It is written in mathematical language, and its characters are triangles, circles and other geometric figures, without which it is impossible to humanly understand a word; without these one is wandering in a dark labyrinth. (Galileo Galilei)
He'd once told me that the art of getting ahead in New York was based on learning how to express dissatisfaction in an interesting way. The air was full of rage and complaint. People had no tolerance for your particular hardship unless you knew how to entertain them with it. View quote
Don DeLillo
Doing what you do well is death. Your duty is to keep trying to do things that you don't do well, in the hope of learning. View quote
John Banville
But it's not so hard, learning to picture yourself as part of a great chain. One that began long before you, and will go on long after. View quote
David Brin
Half of wisdom is learning what to unlearn. View quote
Larry Niven
Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous? View quote
Bill Watterson
A progeny of learning. View quote
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Strategy making needs to function beyond the boxes to encourage the informal learning that produces new perspectives and new combinations... Once managers understand this, they can avoid other costly misadventures caused by applying formal techniques, without judgement and intuition, to problem solving. View quote
Henry Mintzberg
The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free. View quote
Baruch Spinoza
In some cases we learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself. View quote
Lloyd Alexander
Never make your home in a place. Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You'll find what you need to furnish it - memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things. That way it will go with you wherever you journey. (Tad Williams)
The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you. View quote
Anthony Robbins
In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools. View quote
Doris Lessing
Learning to see the structures within which we operate begins a process of freeing ourselves from previously unseen forces and ultimately mastering the ability to work with them and change them. View quote
Peter Senge
Learning organizations organizations where people continually expand their capacity to create the results they truly desire, where new and expansive patterns of thinking are nurtured, where collective aspiration is set free, and where people are continually learning how to learn together. View quote
Peter Senge