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Quotes About Learning

Life is a series of lessons that have to be understood.
~ Thomas Carlyle
As a father of seven kids, and been a kid myself at one point, I realize you don't always make the best decisions every time out. And life is a learning experience.
~ Tony Dungy
The true college will ever have but one goal - not to earn meat, but to know the end and aim of that life which meat nourishes.
~ W. E. B. Du Bois
Maybe the problem is that I was never taught to enjoy failure as an opportunity.
~ Michael Treanor
I really learned how to write from Robert Louis Stevenson, Anthony Trollope, and de Maupassant.
~ Louis L'Amour
You hope in this life that you grow and don't always repeat your mistakes.
~ Tony Dorsett
Life is not for learning nor is life for working, but learning and working are for life.
~ Herbert Spencer
Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating themselves.
~ Andre Gide
I had never touched a computer in my life before I came to Pixar.
~ Andrew Stanton
And if there's anything I do it's change and grow. I'm just a living being. Every year of my life I seem to learn that everything I know is wrong.
~ Ani DiFranco
I listen a lot to how people speak. I've read a great many good books in my life. I had some excellent English teachers. Surely, those things were helpful.
~ Anthony Bourdain
The moral values I've learnt in my life I've learnt through football.
~ Arsene Wenger
It is impossible to live without brains, either one's own or borrowed.
~ Baltasar Gracian
To be a standard shape is not all in life. To know is also important.
~ Brian Aldiss
Well!' said Puddleglum, rubbing his hands. 'This is just what I needed. If these chaps don't teach me to take a serious view of life, I don't know what will.
~ C. S. Lewis
Lincoln was known to have walked miles to borrow books, to get the most rudimentary form of education. So what do we do on his birthday? We close the schools!
~ Robert Orben
It seems everyday I find a new road, a new person that can help my cycling better and help me understand more things. I compare cycling to life often.
~ Robin Farina
I feel that it's important to fail now and again. For instance, if I go for a job and I don't get it, that makes me not a better person, but more balanced, more aware of what life is really like.
~ Romola Garai
I have so many different role models who have taught me so many different things at so many different points in my life, it doesn't feel like I have one person that I have to live up to.
~ Rowan Blanchard
I am sorry I have not learnt to play at cards. It is very useful in life: it generates kindness, and consolidates society.
~ Samuel Johnson
The whole point of life is learning to live with the consequences of the bad decision we've made.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
If human life were long enough to find the ultimate theory, everything would have been solved by previous generations. Nothing would be left to be discovered.
~ Stephen Hawking
I sketch the faces upside down because it's like drawing from the left side of the brain or the right side of the brain. I never took an art lesson in my life.
~ Stevie Nicks
That's just part of the blessing of being an actor: you get to learn so many things about life.
~ Tasha Smith