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Quotes About Learning

The two basic processes of education are knowing and valuing.
~ Robert J. Havighurst
Discovery is the ability to be puzzled by simple things. Noam Chomsky
~ Noam Chomsky
For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
By associating with wise people you will become wise yourself.
~ Menander
Read. Read 1000 pages for every 1 page that you write.
~ Sherman Alexie
Customer complaints are the schoolbooks from which we learn.
~ Lou Gerstner
From a very early age, I've had to interrupt my education to go to school.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Knowledge gained through experience is far superior and many times more useful than bookish knowledge.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
If you think you know it all, you are not listening.
~ Marsha Johnson Evans
There are no mistakes only opportunities.
~ Tina Fey
The more you practice what you know, the more shall you know what to practice.
~ Unknown
Education should turn out the pupil with something he knows well and something he can do well.
~ Alfred North Whitehead
Learning professionals need to be thinking about creating learning experiences rather than learning content
~ Charles Jennings
A man must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.
~ Charles Kettering
Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.
~ Plato
It is obvious that art cannot teach anyone anything, since in four thousand years humanity has learnt nothing at all.
~ Andrei Tarkovsky
I began to learn what poverty meant. It was burnt in my heart then that my father had to beg for work and there came the resolve that I would cure that when I got to be a man.
~ Andrew Carnegie
My parents treated my like I had a brain - which, in turn, caused me to have one.
~ Diane Lane
Much we learn only to forget it again, to stand by the goal, we must traverse all the way to it
~ Friedrich Ruckert
Curiosity is not a sin.... But we should exercise caution with our curiosity... yes, indeed.
~ J. K. Rowling
Volleyball, I could be pretty good. After a few practices I could be that striker, or whatever they call it.
~ LeBron James
Education is a wonderful thing. If you couldn't sign your name you'd have to pay cash.
~ Rita Mae Brown
Don't bury your failures, let them inspire you.
~ Robert Kiyosaki
I tell you and you forget. I show you and you remember. I involve you and you understand.
~ Eric Butterworth