Learning Quotations

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals.

The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.

Learn to say 'no' to the good so you can say 'yes' to the best.

Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.

The brighter you are, the more you have to learn.

It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life.

Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water my friend.

Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.

The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more.

I'm still learning a lot as a songwriter. I try to write down and make a note of ideas that I cross paths with on a day-to-day basis, whether it be a conversation or something I hear on the radio, seeing a movie, or just thoughts in my head as I'm walking down the street.

As long as I'm learning every day of my life, I will never feel old. Never. And I don't feel old; I feel in my head and in my heart - I don't know, ageless!

As educators, we are only as effective as what we know. If we have no working knowledge of what students studied in previous years, how can we build on their learning? If we have no insight into the curriculum in later grades, how can we prepare learners for future classes?

I'm fascinated by the idea of disparate, difficult people learning to trust each other when they're thrust into hellish circumstances.

I enjoy looking, learning, smiling, and engaging with art, sometimes even rejecting it.

There's always a learning curve, where you've got to learn what your subject is all about.

If we are to survive, we must have ideas, vision, and courage. These things are rarely produced by committees. Everything that matters in our intellectual and moral life begins with an individual confronting his own mind and conscience in a room by himself.

A graduate student who is still learning courses is not really taking a maximum advantage of a research university's offerings. He should already be finished with course-taking, as he would then be able to shape his own taste about what is a good subject for research work in the graduate school.

Dad wouldn't let me fool with his guitar much, because I'm left-handed, and I'd pick it up upside down. But I remember learning to sing 'Paper Doll,' the Mills Brothers song - this was during the war - and I remember my dad taking me down to one of those little record booths where you could make spoken letters to send home.

It's really difficult for me. Language, I am sorry that I haven't. I think I just always expected that you learn a word in place of a word and when I discovered how difficult the grammar was and learning that was very discouraging for me.

Some people are so busy learning the tricks of the trade that they never learn the trade.

Folks are always talking about 40 acres and a mule, but what we need is some psychoanalysis. Forget 40 acres in a mule: sign all of us up for some shrinks so we can get ourselves right by reflecting and truly learning ourselves.

Part of me loves to control and to exert power, but it's not the best part of me at all. What I am slowly learning is that allowing others to have power too makes us a better organisation - many brains are simply better than one.

Father, in spite of all this spending of money in learning Latin, I will be a painter.

My grandmother impressed upon me the importance of family, and my grandfather encouraged my hunger for learning.

Playing golf is like learning a foreign language.

I don't want to be perceived as someone who has it all figured out. I certainly don't feel entitled or like I'm a superstar. I'm still growing, learning, and figuring things out.

It's the thing I struggle with every day: the mental diligence and stamina needed to sit in front of the computer, open the file, start writing and to keep doing so, word after word, until I've created the next story. A combination of learning disability and chronic health issues make that the hardest thing for me.

Learn computer science. It's extraordinarily helpful. I like recommending learning economics as well so they think in terms of business, they have rational frameworks for looking at the world, but yeah, computer science is an amazing way to get into, even if you want to be CEO, having a tech background is helpful.

Especially girls, but any kids exposed to music programs and arts programs do much better on their tests. They have a better chance of going to college. They can focus better. You know, we're not just automatons learning how to work machines and do engineering and math and science. All of that's great, but you've got to build a whole person.

What makes a child gifted and talented may not always be good grades in school, but a different way of looking at the world and learning.

It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.

After learning the language and culture of the Chinese people, these Jesuits began to establish contacts with the young intellectuals of the country.

In those parts of the world where learning and science has prevailed, miracles have ceased; but in those parts of it as are barbarous and ignorant, miracles are still in vogue

The introduction of many minds into many fields of learning along a broad spectrum keeps alive questions about the accessibility, if not the unity, of knowledge.

By 2025, we can expect the world to be completely digital. Paper books will be a thing of the past. Education will be delivered through analytics-based assessment tools and adaptive learning platforms.

Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.

I think what makes 'Jeopardy!' special is that, among all the quiz and game shows out there, ours tends to encourage learning.

Growing up in a group home, and with an undiagnosed learning disability to boot, the odds of success were not on my side. But when I joined the high school football team, I learned the value of discipline, focus, persistence, and teamwork - all skills that have proven vital to my career as a C.E.O. and social entrepreneur.

I'm learning to deal with my loneliness because then nobody can muck me around any more.

Experience is making mistakes and learning from them.

When I learn something new - and it happens every day - I feel a little more at home in this universe, a little more comfortable in the nest.

It goes against the grain of modern education to teach students to program. What fun is there to making plans, acquiring discipline, organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self critical.

Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.

Professionally, I was at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and did lots of things there, and then I won the BBC Carlton Hobbs Award, so I did some BBC Radio drama work, which is a lovely way to start out because you work with lots of great people, and you're working all the time, so you're learning rather than sitting around and waitressing.

I'm quite proud of growing up in New Zealand where, from quite early on in primary school, you're learning to count in Maori, Maori mythology and dances and colours and history, and I think that gives a child a really good grounding.

But the basic Taoism that we are concerned with here is simply a particular way of appreciating, learning from, and working with whatever happens in everyday life.

Not everything that happens in an in-person classroom is currently replicated with an online course, and perhaps the experience will never be the quite the same. But there are new opportunities that online learning opens up that would have never been possible without this technology.

Deliverance is about what I went through the first time. And I chalk it up as a learning experience.

Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe.

Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living.

One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.

You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way.

If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

I made decisions that I regret, and I took them as learning experiences... I'm human, not perfect, like anybody else.

The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practised, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. . . . God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

It's a big theme in my life, learning about myself and being a better person. I'm a work in progress; I have revelations every day.

In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.

A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.

Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs.

Nobody programmes the brain, yet it keeps learning. India shouldn't miss the emerging age of brain-inspired computing.

We come to love not by finding a perfect person but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.

My mother felt we'd be earning a living during our entire adult lives, and therefore believed we should spend summers in learning activities. Consequently, I got to see a plate glass factory in Pittsburgh, a U.S. Steel plant, and how Heinz made ketchup.

Our learning ought to be our lives' amendment, and the fruits of our private study ought to appear in our public behavior.

I've studied all my musical life, but learning is only good if you do something constructive with it.

It was quite difficult to find a place to do what we wanted, namely to study the neurological basis of behaviour and especially learning and memory, which we were particularly interested in.

I had learning problems when I was in elementary school, and didn't really start to read well until high school. I never read any of the middle grade classics that were popular when I was young - 'Harriet the Spy', 'Charlotte's Web', 'The Witch of Blackbird Pond', 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory'.

As you get older, you're always maturing, you're always learning something new about yourself.

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

I feel like I've lived a life of making mistakes and learning from them and doing my best to only make each mistake once.

Writing in a journal reminds you of your goals and of your learning in life. It offers a place where you can hold a deliberate, thoughtful conversation with yourself.

You can always tell gifted and highly intelligent people as they always turn to the past. Any young person who knows anything that happened before 1980, or 1990, or 2000 for that matter, is immediately someone who is intelligent, probably creative, maybe a writer. Nobody who is drawn to the past and learning about the past is not gifted.

Studies by many labs have already started to identify specific circuits of neurons involved in normal cognitive function like memory and learning, as well as disease processes such as Parkinson's disease, depression, and autism.

Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.

I sometimes let people down, especially when I was younger. I was cavalier about what people told me. Part of growing up is learning when to shut up.

I've been doing a lot of learning from mistakes, first and foremost, and building off that.

It takes a long time to learn that a courtroom is the last place in the world for learning the truth.

Online education, then, can serve two goals. For students lucky enough to have access to great teachers, blended learning can mean even better outcomes at the same or lower cost. And for the millions here and abroad who lack access to good, in-person education, online learning can open doors that would otherwise remain closed.

Learning can take place in the backyard if there is a human being there who cares about the child. Before learning computers, children should learn to read first. They should sit around the dinner table and hear what their parents have to say and think.

Textbooks are going to remain a key part of learning. They just need to go digital, become more interactive and they need more analytics.

In an undergraduate business environment, the best learning experience is the interaction students have with each other. They need to learn from each other as much as from professors and lectures and other teaching tools.

The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained.

Instead of a national curriculum for education, what is really needed is an individual curriculum for every child

Working on my knowledge and education and learning how to become a more talented and wise person make me feel more sexy.

The process of learning requires not only hearing and applying but also forgetting and then remembering again.

Flying, for some reason, has never been my favorite thing, but after taking some aviation classes and reading about it and learning about it... They've been doing this for over a hundred years, they've been to the moon and back; they kind of have a good system going here.

I'm learning that human pressure on wildlife is becoming increasingly dangerous. You've got to be more alert because more animals have been pushed around, wounded, subjected to human harassment, ambushed, all kinds of stress. When they attack, it's totally predictable.

Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things.

They know enough who know how to learn.

It's okay to make mistakes. Mistakes are our teachers -- they help us to learn.

In order to act, you must be somewhat insane .A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.

I can always see what I've done wrong. I'm always learning. I'm the perennial student.

You never stop learning. If you have a teacher, you never stop being a student.

If you try to do your best there is no failure.

One of the things that is very silly - and I hear from educators all the time - is that schools essentially teach kids to learn. They don't need school for that. Learning is what they do best.

I lived in a world where social arrangements were taken for granted and assumed to be timeless. A child's obligation was to learn these usages, not to question them. The complexities of racial deportment were of a piece with learning manners and etiquette more generally.

I didn't learn to read until I was almost 14 years old. Reading out loud for me was a nightmare because I would mispronounce words or reconstruct things that weren't even there. That's when one of my teachers discovered I had a learning disability called dyslexia. Once I got help, I read very well!