Quotes About Learning

A little learning is not a dangerous thing to one who does not mistake it for a great deal.

Writing is learning to say nothing, more cleverly each day.

If we don't learn from history, we are doomed to repeat it." —George Santayana Every

If everything I perceive is based on what I already know, how will I ever perceive anything new? If I never perceive anything new, how will I change? How will I grow?

Failure is not fatal. Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. It should challenge us to new heights of accomplishments, not pull us to new depths of despair. From honest failure can come valuable experience

Teaching is more than imparting knowledge, it is inspiring change.Learning is more than absorbing facts, it is acquiring understanding.

Failure is not fatal. Failure should be our teacher, nor our undertaker. It should challenge us to new heights of accomplishments, not pull us to new depths of despair. From honest failure can come valuable experience.

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.

Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority.

We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys.

You know more about your child than I can ever hope to know, what advice can you give me to make a better teacher for her?

pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes.

He who studies with a philosopher should take away with him some one good thing every day: he should daily return home a sounder man, or on the way to become sounder.

According to the classicist Anthony A. Long, Epictetus expected his pupils to satisfy two conditions: "(1) wanting to benefit from philosophy and (2) understanding what a commitment to philosophy entails.

you will be willing to think about the past and present in order to learn things that can help you better deal with the obstacles to tranquility thrown your way in the future, you will refuse to spend time engaging in "if only" thoughts about the past and present.

And when asked what he had learned from philosophy, Diogenes replied, "To be prepared for every fortune.

in the course of trying to train a horse, we punish him, it should be because we want him to obey us in the future, not because we are angry about his failure to obey us in the past.

Stoic philosopher Seneca, about whom I will have much to say in this book, "He who studies with a philosopher should take away with him some one good thing every day: he should daily return home a sounder man, or on the way to become sounder.

Not even God can teach a man who comes to the Bible with his mind made up.

All real education is the architecture of the soul.

Many things can be cured with experience and training. Stupidity is not one of them. - Leon

The road to excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.