Learning Quotes - page 13

In every literate society, learning to read is something of an initiation, a ritualized passage out of a state of dependency and rudimentary communication. (Alberto Manguel)
Life seemed to be an educator's practical joke in which you spent the first half learning and the second half learning that everything you learned in the first half was wrong. View quote
Russell Baker
If a person has a contribution to make, he must make it in public. If learning is not made public, it is a waste. View quote
Chaim Potok
A lot of learning can be a little thing. View quote
Spike Milligan
When Scythrop grew up, he was sent, as usual, to a public school, where a little learning was painfully beaten into him, and from thence to the university, where it was carefully taken out of him. View quote
Thomas Love Peacock
[Armenian] is a rich language, however, and would amply repay any one the trouble of learning it. View quote
Lord Byron
For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences. View quote
Miguel de Cervantes
We should listen to the voice of conscience. It does not take nearly as much courage as one might think to admit to our mistakes and learn from them. Human beings are in this world to learn and to change themselves in learning. View quote
Traudl Junge
Now there are two different attitudes towards learning from others. One is the dogmatic attitude of transplanting everything, whether or not it is suited to our conditions. This is no good. The other attitude is to use our heads and learn those things that suit our conditions, that is, to absorb whatever experience is useful to us. That is the attitude we should adopt. View quote
Mao Zedong
Stalin made mistakes. He made mistakes towards us, for example, in 1927. He made mistakes towards the Yugoslavs too. One cannot advance without mistakes... It is necessary to make mistakes. The party cannot be educated without learning from mistakes. This has great significance. View quote
Mao Zedong
The central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning it should produce not learned but learning people. The truly human society is a learning society, where grandparents, parents, and children are students together. (Eric Hoffer)
When asked what learning was the most necessary, he said, “Not to unlearn what you have learned!”. View quote
Diogenes Laërtius
Anarcharsis, on learning that the sides of a ship were four fingers thick, said that "the passengers were just that distance from death." View quote
Diogenes Laërtius
The noblest people are those despising wealth, learning, pleasure and life; esteeming above them poverty, ignorance, hardship and death. View quote
Diogenes of Sinope
Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment. View quote
Novalis
He not only overflowed with learning, but stood in the slop. View quote
Sydney Smith
I really think that reading is just as important as writing when you're trying to be a writer. Because it's the only apprenticeship we have. It's the only way of learning how to write a story. View quote
John Green (author)
Freedom can exist only in the society of knowledge. Without learning, men are incapable of knowing their rights. View quote
Benjamin Rush
If you're going to go through hell... I suggest you come back learning something. View quote
Drew Barrymore
If I'm teaching deep things, then I view it as important to make people feel like they're learning deep things, because otherwise, they will still have a hole in their mind for "deep truths" that needs filling, and they will go off and fill their heads with complete nonsense that has been written in a more satisfying style. View quote
Eliezer Yudkowsky
Old age is like learning a new profession. And not one of your own choosing. (Jacques Barzun)
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. View quote
Warren Bennis
Sometimes I fear that, if Harvard does not give up trying to turn itself from an Institution of Learning into an Educational Institution, we may have a generation of professors whose duty it will be to disseminate information which they have not the time to acquire. View quote
Edwin Boring
What's the use you learning to do right, when it's troublesome to do right and ain't no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same. View quote
Mark Twain
I'm learning to play piano. And also the musical saw. View quote
Rachel Trachtenburg