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Quotes About Learning

During the earliest stages of thought, accommodation remains on the surface of physical as well as social experience.
~ Jean Piaget
In some small field each child should attain, within the limited range of its experience and observation, the power to draw a justly limited inference from observed facts.
~ Charles William Eliot
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.
~ William Blake
Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?
~ Voltaire
Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
~ Denis Waitley
You can't understand it until you experience the simple joy of the first time your son points at a seagull and says 'Duck!'
~ Russell Crowe
No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted.
~ Orson F. Whitney
Instinct is the gift of experience. The first question you have to ask yourself is, 'On what basis am I making a judgment?' ... If you have no experience, then your instincts aren't any good.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
You've got to go out there and do your things. Whatever comes your way, you jump on it, and like anything, that's how you get your experience.
~ Frank Grillo
Experience makes us wise.
~ William Hazlitt
Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.
~ Elizabeth Bowen
But to me all sciences seem vain and full of error that are not born of experience, mother of all certainty, and do not terminate in an actual experience.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.
~ John Keats
You learn nothing if you carry with you a journalistic system of values, which is invented to save reporters from experience.
~ Kenneth Rexroth
Learning from experience and learning from education, both are important. Your education & values decide how you learn from your experiences.
~ Narendra Modi
Experience proves that anyone who has studied geometry is infinitely quicker to grasp difficult subjects than one who has not.
~ Plato
There's something special for everyone to do. Remember, no experience is a bad experience unless you gain nothing from it.
~ Lyndon B. Johnson
I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a 'learning experience.' Then again, I like to think of anything stupid I've done as a 'learning experience.' It makes me feel less stupid.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
But if somebody dies, if something happens to you, there is a normal process of depression, it is part of being human, and some people view it as a learning experience etc.
~ Bob Geldof
Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
I learn so much from watching films like that with commentary and then when you get to hear another filmmaker talk about their films it's a really great experience.
~ Jay Roach
Courage isn't something you are born with. It comes to you with experience.
~ Patricia Neal
Experience is a valuable thing. It enables us to recognize mistakes when we repeat them.
~ Kathy Reichs
The reward of suffering is experience
~ Aeschylus