Quotes About Learning

Only knowledge that is used sticks in your mind.

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

Emerson said: "Every man I meet is my superior in some way. In that, I learn of him.

If You Have A Lemon, Make A Lemonade That is what a great educator does. But the fool does the exact opposite. If he finds that life has handed him a lemon, he gives up and says: I'm beaten. It is fate. I haven't got a chance. Then he proceeds to rail against the world and indulge in an orgy of selfpity. But when the wise man is handed a lemon, he says: What lesson can I learn from this misfortune? How can I improve my situation? How can I turn this lemon into a lemonade?

You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him to find it within himself.

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Bernard Shaw once remarked: 'If you teach a man anything, he will never learn.

That's why encouragement is a much more effective teaching device than punishment.

the great aim of education,' said Herbert Spencer, 'is not knowledge but action.

Every man I meet is my superior in some way. In that, I learn of him.

There's magic, positive magic, in such phrases as: I may be wrong. I frequently am. Let's examine the facts.

Education," said Dr. John G. Hibben, former president of Princeton University, "is the ability to meet life's situations.

One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.

Shaw once remarked: "If you teach a man anything, he will never learn." Shaw was right. Learning is an active process. We learn by doing.

Men must be taught as if you taught them not And things unknown proposed as things forgot.

If a person makes a statement that you think is wrong—yes, even that you know is wrong—isn't it better to begin by saying: "Well, now, look. I thought otherwise, but I may be wrong. I frequently am. And if I am wrong, I want to be put right. Let's examine the facts." There's magic, positive magic, in such phrases as: "I may be wrong. I frequently am. Let's examine the facts.

mistakes did I make that time?' "'What did I do that was right—and in what way could I have improved my performance?' "'What lessons can I learn from that experience?

Over three hundred years ago Galileo said:   You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him to find it within himself.

Everyone who was ever a guest of Theodore Roosevelt was astonished at the range and diversity of his knowledge. Whether his visitor was a cowboy or a Rough Rider, a New York politician or a diplomat, Roosevelt knew what to say. And how was it done? The answer was simple. Whenever Roosevelt expected a visitor, he sat up late the night before, reading up on the subject in which he knew his guest was particularly interested.

B.F. Skinner, the world-famous psychologist, proved through his experiments that an animal rewarded for good behaviour will learn much more rapidly and retain what it learns far more effectively than an animal punished for bad behaviour. Later studies have shown that the same applies to humans. By criticising, we do not make lasting changes and often incur resentment.

Nobody in the heavens above or on the earth beneath or in the waters under the earth will ever object to your saying: 'I may be wrong. Let's examine the facts.

Elbert Hubbard said: "Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day. Wisdom consists in not exceeding that limit.

In looking over a letter of one of his assistants, he would say, "Maybe if we were to phrase it this way it would be better." He always gave people the opportunity to do things themselves; he never told his assistants to do things; he let them do them, let them learn from their mistakes.

I had done my best, and that my lack of experience, not my lack of ability, was the reason for the failure.