Learning Quotes

We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.

Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student.

You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers. You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.

It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies; seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing you can do is keep your mind young.

Never learn to do anything: if you don't learn, you'll always find someone else to do it for you.

That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.

Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.

The wisest mind has something yet to learn.

Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked.

What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers.

Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient.

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

Whoso neglects learning in his youth,
Loses the past and is dead for the future.

Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.