learn quotes

“Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”

— Douglas Adams

“I never teach my pupils. I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.”

— Albert Einstein

“Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.”

“I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.”

— Marilyn Monroe

“A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.”

“That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.”

— Aldous Huxley

“Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.”

“An unschooled man who knows how to meditate upon the Lord has learned far more than the man with the highest education who does not know how to meditate.”

— Charles Stanley

“The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.”

“Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.”

“Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.”

“We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.”

“I would fain grow old learning many things.”

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I never learned from a man who agreed with me.
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— Robert Anson Heinlein

“Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before... He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

“We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.”

— Aristotle Onassis

“Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.”

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Much learning does not teach understanding.
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“I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.”

— Galileo Galilei

“Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation. ”

— Salvador Dali

“A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.”

“A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.”

— Hippocrates

“In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”

— Robert Frost

“While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

“I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.”

— Pablo Picasso

“By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.”

“He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.”

“Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.”

“You cannot open a book without learning something.”

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