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Quotes About Learning

Life is a maze in which we take the wrong turning before we have learned to walk.
~ Cyril Connolly
Students today should live fully every moment of time. This dew-like life fades away; time speeds swiftly. In this short life of ours, avoid involvement in superfluous things and just study the Way.
~ Dogen
Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for the training...
~ Lewis Mumford
I try to show the public that chemistry, biology, physics, astrophysics is life. It is not some separate subject that you have to be pulled into a corner to be taught about.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
You have to have lived some life. You've got to have paid some dues.
~ Richard Pryor
Try something new each day. After all, we're given life to find it out. It doesn't last forever.
~ Ruth Gordon
Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up because you will lose the ability to learn new things. Move forward with your life.
~ Unknown
Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
~ Moshe Arens
My life is a series of dumb choices
~ Geoff Ramsey
Is it life, I ask, is it even prudence, To bore thyself and bore the students?
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The biggest mistake of my life was taking a military education.
~ Robert E. Lee
I have found that-- just as in real life--imagination sometimes has to stand in for experience.
~ Steve Martin
Life is about learning; when you stop learning, you die.
~ Tom Clancy
I answered that one learns to live, not by hearing of other lives, but by living; for words are infinitely less important than acts.
~ Alexander Sutherland Neill
I still regard myself as an amateur today and I hope that's what I'll stay until the end of my life. Because I'm forever a beginner who discovers the world again and again.
~ Andre Kertesz
It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually.
~ M. Scott Peck
Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death
~ Moliere
Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough.
~ Richard P. Feynman
Nothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illustrated it
~ John Keats
Fail, fail again, fail better.
~ Samuel Beckett
Education is no longer thought of as a preparation for adult life, but as a continuing process of growth and development from birth until death.
~ Stephen Mitchell
Half my life is in book's written pages. Live and learn from fools and from sages.
~ Steven Tyler
As far as I could see, life demanded skills I didn't have.
~ Susanna Kaysen
I can't ask for more out of life, and the more I learn, the less I know.
~ Tony Bennett