Learning Quotes - page 5

The [engineer] should be equipped with knowledge of many branches of study and varied kinds of learning, for it is by his judgement that all work done by the other arts is put to test. This knowledge is the child of practice and theory. (Vitruvius)
A liberal education forms a single body. Those, therefore, who from tender years receive instruction in the various forms of learning, recognize the same stamp on all the arts, and an intercourse between all studies, and so they more readily comprehend them all. View quote
Vitruvius
Apollo at Delphi, through the oracular utterance of his priestess, pronounced Socrates the wisest of men. Of him it is related that he said with sagacity and great learning that the human breast should have been furnished with open windows, so that men might not keep their feelings concealed, but have them open to the view. Oh that nature, following his idea, had constructed them thus unfolded and obvious to the view. View quote
Vitruvius
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen - that stillness becomes a radiance. View quote
Morgan Freeman
Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little wordings enjoy. View quote
Edward Young
I am still learning. View quote
Michelangelo
People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly. View quote
Andy Warhol
The problem in public life is learning to overcome terror; the problem in married life is learning to overcome boredom. View quote
Gabriel García Márquez
Entertainment and learning are not opposites; entertainment may be the most effective mode of learning. View quote
Herbert Marcuse
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 too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers. View quote
Mignon McLaughlin
When I think about my career, my successes are built on learning from failures. View quote
Satya Nadella
Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning. View quote
Christopher Morley
The chief art of learning is to attempt but a little at a time. View quote
John Locke
Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has. View quote
Josh Billings
Everyone has learning difficulties, because learning to speak French or understanding relativity is difficult. View quote
Mark Haddon
The lesson I was learning involved the idea that I could feel compassion for people without acting on it. View quote
Melody Beattie
People always ask me if I could live in any other era what would it be, and I tell them none! I feel so lucky to live in an age where technology has changed and continues to change and make life so much more exciting. It keeps everyone young and constantly learning new things. (Nina Garcia)
Comfort can be a dangerous thing. You stick around home all the time where it's safe and nothing ever changes, and before you know it, you get set in your ways and you quit learning, you quit changing, you don't grow anymore. View quote
Frank Peretti
The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you. View quote
B. B. King
All mankind is now learning that these nuclear weapons can only serve to destroy, never become beneficial. View quote
Alva Myrdal
Learning is not the accumulation of knowledge, but rather, one thing only: understanding. View quote
Donna Jo Napoli