944 private quotes tagged learning

“Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.” — Ambrose Bierce

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“Defense is a definite part of the game, and a great part of defense is learning to play it without fouling.” — John Wooden

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“Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?” — Bill Watterson

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“Why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth.” — Will Rogers

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“If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself.” — Charles M. Schulz

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“It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.” — John Wooden

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“What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?” — James Madison

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“An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.” — Jack Welch

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“The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.” — Thomas Aquinas

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“The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.” — Albert Einstein

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“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.” — Plato

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“Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering.” — Aeschylus

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“If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“A child's learning is a function more of the characteristics of his classmates than those of the teacher.” — James S. Coleman

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“I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“If I am through learning, I am through.” — John Wooden

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

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“The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all.” — Harry S. Truman

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“Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.” — Michel de Montaigne

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“Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.” — Josh Billings

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“Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.” — Thomas Fuller

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“The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.” — Antisthenes

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“No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“As long as you live, keep learning how to live.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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