“I keep six honest serving-men
(They taught me all I knew);
Their names are What & Why & When
& How & Where & Who.”
Rudyard Kipling
“You cannot teach people
anything. You can only help
them discover it within
themselves.”
Galileo
“Teachers open the door, but you
must enter by yourself.”
Chinese Proverb
“Be curious always! For
knowledge will not acquire you,
you must acquire it.”
Sudie Back
“Learning is not compulsory neither is survival!”
W Edward Deming
“The great end of learning is not
knowledge but action.”
Peter Honey
“I never let my schooling
interfere with my education”
Mark Twain
“The human species is unique in
its capacity for learning. To learn
is to be human.”
Phil Race
“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.”
Lord Chesterfield
“Ignorance of all things is an evil
neither terrible nor excessive, nor
yet the greatest of all; but great
cleverness and much learning, if
they be accompanied by bad
training, are a much greater
misfortune.”
Plato
“Develop a passion for learning.
If you do, you will never cease to
grow.”
Anthony J. D'Angelo
“Learning to draw is really a
matter of learning to see -- to see
correctly -- and that means a
good deal more than merely
looking with the eye.”
Kimon Nicolaides:
“The books that help you most are
those which make you think the
most. The hardest way of learning is
that of easy reading; but a great book
that comes from a great thinker is a
ship of thought, deep freighted with
truth and beauty.”
Theodore Parker
“It is among the commonplaces of
education that we often first cut off the
living root and then try to replace its
natural functions by artificial means.
Thus we suppress the child's curiosity
and then when he lacks a natural interest
in learning he is offered special coaching
for his scholastic difficulties.”
Alice Duer Miller
“Till a man can judge whether
they be truths or not, his
understanding is but little
improved, and thus men of much
reading, though greatly learned,
but may be little knowing.”
John Locke
“Good teaching is one-fourth
preparation and three-fourths
theatre.”
Gail Godwin
“It is in fact nothing short of a miracle
that the modern methods of instruction
have not yet entirely strangled the
wholly curious of inquiry. It is a very
grave mistake to think that the
enjoyment of seeing and searching can
be promoted by means of coercion and a
sense of duty.”
Albert Einstein
“To acquire knowledge, one must
study; but to acquire wisdom, one
must observe.”
Marilyn vos Savant
“In times of change, learners
inherit the earth while the learned
find themselves beautifully
equipped to deal with a world
that no longer exists.”
Eric Hoffer
“One's mind, once stretched by a
new idea, never regains its
original dimensions.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes
“Men learn while they teach.”
Seneca
“I am always ready to learn, but I
do not always like being
taught.”
Churchill
“Man learns little from success,
but much from failure.”
Arabic Proverb
“If you think Education is
expensive - try ignorance.”
Derek Bok
“If you keep doing what you’ve
always done, you’ll keep getting
what you’ve always got.”
Zig Zigler
“If people knew how hard I
worked to get my mastery, it
wouldn’t seem so wonderful after
all.”
Michelangelo
“Results! Why man I gotton lots
of results. I know several
thousand things that wont work.”
Thomas Edison
“Expect people to be better than
they are, It helps them to become
better. But don't be disappointed
when they are not; It helps them
to keep trying.”
Anonymous
“You can't teach a man anything;
you can only let him find it for
himself.”
Galileo
“Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.
Talent will not; nothing is more common than
unsuccessful men with talent.
Genius will not; un-rewarded genius is almost a proverb.
Education alone will not; the world is full of educated
derelicts.
Learning will not; there are thousands of professional
learners who do nothing.
Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.”
Anonymous
“The clever man will tell you what he
knows; he may even try to explain it to
you. The wise man encourages you to
discover it for yourself, even although he
knows it inside out. But since he seems
to give you nothing, we have no need to
reward him. Thus the wise have
disappeared and we are left in a
desolation of the clever.”
Reg Revan
“The eye sees only what the mind
is prepared to comprehend.”
Anonymous
“Don't mind criticism. If it's
untrue, disregard it; if it's unfair,
keep from irritation;
If it's ignorant, smile; if it's
justified, learn from it.”
Anonymous
“First learn the meaning of what
you say, and then speak.”
Epictetus
“No learning opportunity is ever
lost; someone always picks up
those you miss.”
Anonymous
“It is better to know some of the
questions than all of the
answers.”
James Thurber
“Some students drink deeply at
the fountain of knowledge others only gargle.”
Anonymous
“Peoples minds are like
parachutes - they only function
when they are open!”
Leanne Hastie
“It doesn't help aiming high if
your gun isn't loaded.”
Anonymous
“Even while they teach, men
learn.”
Seneca
“You are what you learn.”
Anonymous
“There is no such whetstone to sharpen a
good wit and encourage a will to
learning, as is praise.”
Roger Ascham
“Some people learn from
experience. Some people never
recover from it.”
Anonymous
“Everyone is the architect of their
own learning.”
Appius Claudius
“The illiterate of the next
millennium will not be the
individual who cannot read and
write but the one who cannot
learn, unlearn and relearn.”
Anonymous
“Experience without learning is
better than learning without
experience.”
Anonymous
“They know enough who know
how to learn.”
Henry Adams
“Every age is destined for
learning, nor is a person given
other goals in learning than in life
itself.”
Jan Comenius
“Try to learn something about
everything and everything about
something.”
Thomas Henry Huxley
“I grow old, ever learning many
things.”
Solon
“O! this learning, what a thing it
is.”
Shakespeare
“We live and learn.”
John Pomfret
“If men could learn from history, what lessons
it might teach us! But passion and party blind
our eyes, and the light which experience gives
is a lantern on the stern, which shines only on
the waves behind us!”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“Education is what survives
when what has been learnt has
been forgotten.”
BF Skinner
“Education has produced a vast
population able to read, but
unable to distinguish what is
worth reading.”
G M Trevelyn
“Experience is the name
everybody gives to their
mistakes.”
Oscar Wilde
“The difference between
education and experience:
education is what you get from
reading the small print,
experience is what you get from
not reading it.”
Anonymous
“The best way is always the
simplest way - once it is learned.”
Frank Bunker Gilbreth
“An ounce of experience is worth
a ton of theory.”
Benjamin Franklin
“I not only use all the brains I
have, but all I can borrow.”
Woodrow Wilson
“We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.”
T S Eliot
“If a man empties his purse into
his head – no one can take it
away from him.”
Benjamin Franklin
“An investment in knowledge
always pays the best return.”
Benjamin Franklin
“A yearly review is a summary of
all the coaching sessions you
have had throughout the year.”
Anonymous
“A child of five could understand
this. Send someone to fetch a
child of five.”
Groucho Marx
“Nothing is more confusing than
people who give good advice and
set bad examples.”
Norman Vincent Peale
“Coaching is helping someone to
achieve their goals by
themselves, though not on their
own.”
Anonymous
“Coaching requires the manager
to replace authority with a
strategy that lets the employee
take control.”
Neil Stroul
“If I fall short of your
expectations and you don’t tell
me, we have both failed.”
Anonymous
“If you want to build a ship, do
not send your men out to get
wood and tools … but teach them
a longing for the wide open sea.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“What gets measured gets done.
What gets measured and receives
feedback get done well.
What gets rewarded gets
repeated.”
Anonymous
“I forget what I hear.
I remember what I see.
I learn what I do.”
Old Chinese Proverb
“We all have possibilities that we
don’t know about. We can do
things we don’t even dream we
can do.”
Dale Carnegie
“There is nothing more practical
than a good theory.”
Kurt Lewin
“The growth and development of
people is the highest calling of
leadership.”
Booker T, Washington
“He who knows not, and knows that he
knows not, is a fool… Shun him
He who knows not, and knows that he
knows not is ignorant… teach him
He who knows, and knows that he
knows, is a wise man… follow him
But he who knows, and knows that he
knows, is asleep… wake him.”
Arabic Manuscript
“The brighter you are, the more
you have to learn.”
Don Herold
“Live as if you were to die
tomorrow. Learn as if you were
to live forever.”
Gandhi
“The only real mistake is the the
one from which we learn
nothing.”
John Powell
“Learn from yesterday, live for
today, hope for tomorrow.”
Anonymous
“I have never in my life learned
anything from any man who
agreed with me.”
Dudley Field Malone
“There are no mistakes, no
coincidences. All events are
blessings given to us to learn
from.”
Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
“In three words I can sum up
everything I’ve learned about
life; it goes on.”
Robert Frost
“I like to listen. I have learned a
great deal from listening
carefully. Most people never
listen.”
Ernest Hemingway
“I have learnt silence from the
talkative, toleration from the
intolerant, and kindness from the
unkind; yet strangely, I am
ungrateful to these teachers.”
Kahil Gibran
“Friendship is the hardest thing
in the world to explain. It’s not
something you learn in school.
But if you haven’t learned the
meaning of friendship, you really
haven’t learned anything.”
Muhammad Ali
“The hardest of all is learning to
be a well of affection, and not a
fountain; to show them we love
them not when we feel like it, but
when they do.”
Nan Fairbrother
“In this age, which believes that
there is a short cut to everything,
the greatest lesson to be learned
is that the most difficult way is,
in the long run, the easiest.”
Henry Miller
“Benevolence alone will not
make a teacher, nor will learning
alone do it. The gift of teaching is
a peculiar talent, and implies a
need and a craving in the teacher
themselves.”
John Jay Chapman
“If you can learn from hard
knocks, you can also learn from
soft touches.”
Carolyn Kenmore
“There is nothing so easy to learn
as experience and nothing so hard
to apply.”
Josh Billings
“One of the many lessons one
learns in prison is, that things are
what they are and will be what
they will be.”
Oscar Wilde
Experience keeps a dear school,
but fools will learn in no other.”
Benjamin Franklin
“Spoon feeding in the long run
teaches us nothing but the shape
of the spoon.”
E. M Forster
“Prosperity is a great teacher;
adversity a greater.”
Wiliam Hazlitt
“The whole art of teaching is
only the art of awakening the
natural curiosity of young minds
for the purpose of satisfying it
Anatole France
afterwards.”
“No other job in the world could
possibly dispossess one so completely as
this job of teaching. You could stand all
day in a laundry, for instance, still in
possession of your mind. But this
teaching utterly obliterates you. It cuts
into your being: essentially, it takes over
your spirit. It drags it out from where it
would hide.”
Sylvia Ashton-Warner
“The years teach much which the
days never knew.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Give a man a fish and he will
eat for a day. Teach a man to fish
and he will eat for the rest of his
life.”
Chinese Proverb
“Time is the best teacher;
unfortunately it kills all its
students.”
Bumper Sticker
“You’re never too old to learn
something stupid.”
Anonymous
“If all you have learnt to use is a
hammer – everything looks like a
nail.”
Anonymous
“To teach a man how he may
learn to grow independently, and
for himself, is perhaps the
greatest service that one man can
do another.”
Benjamin Jowett
“Knowing is not enough; we must apply.
Willing is not enough we must do.”
Goethe
“Learning is not a spectator sport.”
D. Blocher
“For learning to take place with any kind
of efficiency students must be motivate.
To be motivated they must become
interested. And they become interested
when they are actively working on
projects which they can relate to their
goals in life.”
Gus Tuberville
“The only kind of learning which
significantly influences
behaviour is self-discovery or
self-appropriated learning – truth
that has been assimilated in
experience.”
Carl Rogers
“I never teach my pupils; I only
attempt to provide the conditions
in which they can learn.”
Albert Einstein
“The teacher if he is indeed wise
does not teach or bid you enter
the house of wisdom but leads
you to the threshold of your own
mind.”
Kahil Gilbran
“Retention is best when the
learner is involved.”
Edward Gibbon
“Training is everything. The
peach was once bitter almond;
cauliflower is nothing but
cabbage with a college
education.”
Mark Twain
“The real voyage of discovery
consists not in seeking new lands,
but in seeing with new eyes.”
Marcel Proust
“The mediocre teacher tells. The
good teacher explains. The
superior teacher demonstrates.
The great teacher inspires.”
William Arthur Ward
“The biggest enemy to learning is
the talking teacher.”
John Holt
“An acre is 43,560 sq. ft. That’s
data. An acre is also about the
size of a football field. That’s
information.”
R. Saul Wurman
“Everyone can learn, the only
variable is the time needed.
Benjamin Bloom
“Not even the universe with its
countless billions of galaxies
represents greater wonder or
complexity than the human brain.
There is no limit to its range,
scope or capacity for creative
growth.”
Norman Cousins
“Everybody who is incapable of
learning has taken to teaching.”
Oscar Wilde
“Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote,
And think they grow immortal as they quote.”
Edward Young
“The road to wisdom? – Well it’s
plain and simple to express:
Err – and err, and err again.
But less and less and less.”
Piet Hein
“To know yet to think that one
does not know is best; Not to
know yet to think that one knows
will lead to difficulty.”
Lao-Tzu
“Some are born with knowledge, some derive
it from study, and some acquire it only after a
painful realization of their ignorance. But the
knowledge being possessed, it comes to the
same thing. Some study with a natural ease
some from a desire for advantage, and some
by strenuous effort. But the achievement
being made, it comes to the same thing.”
Kung Fu Tzu (Confucius)
“When you know something, say
what you know. When you don’t
know something, say that you
don’t know. That is knowledge.”
Kung Fu Tzu (Confucius)
“If you want to know the taste of a pear,
you must change the pear by eating it
yourself…If you want to know the
theory and methods of revolution, you
must take part in revolution. All genuine
knowledge originates in direct
experience.”
Mao Zedong
“The things we know best are the
things we haven’t been taught.”
Luc Vauvenargues
“Learning without thought is
labour lost. Thought without
learning is intellectual death.”
Kung Fu Tzu (Confucius)
“The art of teaching is the art of
assisting discovery.”
Mark Van Doren
“The most important part of
teaching? To teach what is to
know.”
Simon Weil
“Nothing is more terrible than
activity without insight.”
Thomas Carlyle
“Why” said the the Dodo the best
way to explain it, is to do it.”
Lewis Carroll
“All things must be mentally
accomplished before they are
physically accomplished.”
Stephen Covey
“Before you become too entranced with
gorgeous gadgets and mesmerizing video
displays, let me remind you that
information is not knowledge,
knowledge is not wisdom, and wisdom is
not foresight. Each grows out of the
other, and we need them all.”
Arthur C. Clarke
“I think, therefore I am
(Cogito, ergo sum.)”
Descartes
“Its what you learn once you
know it all that really makes the
difference.”
Anonymous
"If training were the same as
learning, we'd all be so smart we
couldn't stand ourselves."
Robert F. Mager
“Failure in learning is the path of
least persistence”
Anonymous
“Consistency is the last bastion
of the unimaginative”
Oscar Wilde
“People may doubt what you say
but always believe what you do”
Anonymous
“Many ideas grow better when
transplanted into another mind
than in the one where they sprang
up.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr
“Reading is to the mind what
exercise is to the body.”
Richard Steele
“The mind, ever the willing
servant, will respond to boldness,
for boldness, in effect, is a
command to deliver mental
resources.”
Norman Vincent Peale
“The final obstacle is the belief
that there is an obstacle.”
Papaji
“Nurture your mind with great
thoughts.”
Benjamin Disraeli
“Practice doesn't make perfect.
Perfect practice makes perfect.”
Vince Lombardi
“Any thought that is passed on to
the subconscious often enough
and convincingly enough is
finally accepted.”
Robert Collier
“We are what we repeatedly do.”
Aristotle
“Wisdom is not a product of
schooling but of the lifelong
attempt to acquire it.”
Albert Einstein
“Questions are the creative acts
of intelligence.”
Frank Kingdom
“Every creative act involves...a
new innocence of perception,
liberated from the cataract of
accepted belief.” Arthur Koestler
“Knowledge increases in
proportion to its use - that is, the
more we teach the more we
learn.”
H. P. Blavatsky
“If you think you can, you can.
And if you think you can't you're
right.”
Mary Kay Ash
“The mind is like a clock that is
constantly running down and
must be wound up daily with
good thoughts.” Fulton J Sheen
“Imagination is more important
than knowledge. For while
knowledge defines all we
currently know and understand,
imagination points to all we
might yet discover and create.”
Einstein
“The major challenge for leaders
in the twenty-first century will be
how to release the brain power of
their organisations.”
Warren Bennis
“Most people don't take the time
to think. I made an international
reputation for myself by deciding
to think twice a week.”
George Bernard Shaw
“Before the gates of excellence
the high Gods have placed
sweat.”
Unknown Greek Poet
On being asked how he had
“discovered” the law of
gravitation, Newton replied “by
thinking on it continually.”
Isaac Newton
“The greatest achievements and
virtuoso performances of our
lives are romanced not beaten out
of us.”
Nick Williams
“All our knowledge has its
origins in our perceptions.”
Leonardo da Vinci
“Learning is no longer
preparation for the job, it is the
job.”
Anonymous
Sitting still in confined places is
one of the worst punishments that
can be inflicted on the human
species. Yet, this is what we
require of students -.
Edward T. Hall
“Behaviourism – the belief that
all learning consists of a stimulus
/ response, carrot-and-stick
training and that only observed
behaviour is worthy of study –
has had a disastrous influence on
20th century perceptions.”
A. Arnold
“If there is one thing we should
know from years and years of
experience, it’s that sleep
learning doesn’t work.”
Anonymous
“The mind is not a vessel to be
filled but a fire to be ignited.”
Plutarch
“The facilitator’s role is to
initiate the learning process and
then get out of the way.”
John Warren
“Wonder is the seed of
knowledge.”
Francis Bacon
“It’s what the learner says and
does that is more important than
what the facilitator says and does
for the actual learning.”
Win Wenger
“Intelligence shows itself not so
much in always having the right
answers but in being able to ask
the right question.”
Anonymous
“One of the greatest faults in
modern education is over
structuring, which does not allow
for play at every point in the
educational process.”
Edward T. Hall
“It is necessary only to be master
of the metaphor.”
Aristotle
“Too hot, too cold, too hungry,
too tired or too still… and forget
about learning.”
Alistair Smith
“The aim of education should be
to convert the mind into a living
fountain, not a reservoir.”
John Mason
“Teaching is not the application
of a system; it is an exercise in
perpetual discretion.”
Jacques Barzun
“Repose is not the end of
education. Its end is a noble
unrest, an ever renewed
awakening from the dead.”
George MacDonald
“Artistry, intuition, perspective,
and quick reflexes are what help
teaches survive – not rigid
adherence to a particular set of
techniques.”
Jonathan Zap
“In the main, the bureaucratic structure
of the workplace is more powerful in
determining what professionals do than
are personal abilities, professional
training, or previous experience.
Therefore, efforts should focus on
changing the structure of the workplace,
not on changing the teachers.”
Jack Frymier
“If you tell somebody they can
do something, give them some
belief, their expectation goes up.”
David Hockney
“It not how many answers the
student know, it’s how they
behave when they don’t know
that counts.”
Arthur Costa
“We know there’s a part of the
brain… that gets activated when
we’re very emotional, and it
increases our ability to remember
things. When there’s emotion
attached to something we’re more
likely to remember it.”
Dr Marilyn Albert
“Trying to learn without
reviewing is like trying to fill the
bath without putting the plug in.”
Mike Hughes
“We retain:
10% of what we read
20% of what we hear
30% of what we see
50% of what we hear and say
90% of what we say and do.”
Anonymous
“We are none of us very good at
sitting still for extended periods
of time with our attention
systems all engaged by one set
of stimuli.”
Alistair Smith
“The problem with training is the
cost, not the cost of training but
the cost of not training.”
Garry Platt
“Information is not knowledge.”
Susan Greenfield
“Your own examples, case
studies and stories, enliven
learning and are remembered.
Time them like this:
Your Story – 60%
Your Point – 20%
Your link to learning – 20%
Glen Capelli after Dale Carnegie
“The greatest enemy of learning
is coverage. As long as you are
determined to cover everything
you guarantee that most learners
are not going to understand.”
Howard Gardner
“The purpose of a question is for
learning to take place, not testing
to take place.”
Bob Pike
“We do not think in a linear,
sequential way, yet every body of
information is given to us in a linear
manner. Every language structure is
basically linear… we are taught to
communicate in a way that is
actually restricting our ability to
think.”
Richard Saul Wurmann
“Ultimately, a full understanding
of any concept of any complexity
cannot be restricted to a single
mode of knowing.”
Howard Gardner
“Genius is that energy which
collects, combines, amplifies and
animates.”
Samuel Johnson
“I think somehow we learn who
really are and then live with that
decision.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“Tomorrow’s employees will be
doing what robots cannot do,
which means that their work will
call for sophisticated
intelligence.”
Cain & Cane
“ In the coming century there will be no
national products or technologies, no
national corporations, no national
industries. There will no longer be
national economies…all that will remain
rooted within national borders are the
people who comprise a nation. Each
nation’s primary assets will be its
citizen’s skills.
Robert Reich
“Good teaching should provide
opportunities for students to take
increasing responsibility for their
own work.”
OFSTED
“Unless learners are in the
appropriate state, it’s time to stop
everything and start changing
their state.”
E. Jensen
“It is through education and
learning that we can ultimately
achieve all our goals and
desires.”
Colin Jackson
“Be not afraid of growing slowly,
be afraid only of standing still.”
Chinese Proverb
“Education means never having
the feeling of inadequacy.”
Duncan Goodhew
“The world of the future will favour
intellectual properties of invention,
creation and understanding.
Imaginative thinkers will be the ones
working in the 21st Century. Only
education can provide the training
for those will do this work.”
Griff Rhys Jones
“If you learn from your mistakes,
you become a better person. If
you don’t learn from what you’ve
done wrong, then your defeating
the purpose.”
Wayne Gretzky
“Genius is one percent
inspiration and ninety-nine
percent perspiration.”
Thomas Alva Edison
“No truly educated person can
ever be bored.”
Arthur C. Clarke
“Education can open doors and
the more doors open to you the
more chance you have in life.”
Sharon Davies
“We need to broadcast on the
student’s frequency. The
frequency is Radio WIIFM –
Radio ‘What’s In It For Me?’”
B. De Porter
“To learn anything fast and
effectively you need to see it,
hear it, feel it.”
T. Stockwell
“Though I do not deny that
memory can be helped by places
and images, yet the best memory
is based on three important
things: namely study, order and
care.”
Erasmus
“You can remember any new
piece of information if it is
associated to something you
already know or remember.”
Lorayne & Lucas
“ When to the sessions of sweet silent thought
I summon up remembrance of things past,
I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought,
And with old woes new well my dear time’s
waste.”
Shakespeare
“Since the brain is indisputably a multipath,
multimodal apparatus, the notion of
mandatory sequences or even of any fixed
sequences is unsupportable. Each of us learns
in a personal, highly individual, mainly
random way… That being the case any group
instruction that has been tightly, logically
planned will have been wrongly planned for
most of the group, and will inevitably inhibit,
prevent or distort learning.”
L.A. Hart
“In learning there are ‘ah-ha’
moments and ‘ha’ moments.
There are occasionally ‘aaah’
moments but there aren’t enough
‘ha-ha’ moments!”
Alistair Smith
“You can read the same material
again and again without it entering
your long-term memory.
Memorising material needs to be
more active. You need to seek out
the meaning, think it through and
structure it in the way you feel is
most relevant.”
Nick Mirsky
“Learning is directly proportional
to the amount of fun you have.”
Bob Pike
“A little learning is a dangerous thing;
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,
And drinking largely sobers us again.”
Alexander Pope
“A barber learns to shave by
shaving fools.”
Romanian Proverb
“A certain awkwardness marks
the use of borrowed thoughts; but
as soon as we have learned what
to do with them, they become our
own.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“A learned blockhead is a greater
blockhead than an ignorant one.
Benjamin Franklin
“A learned man has always
wealth in himself.”
Latin Proverb
“A little learning, indeed, may be
a dangerous thing, but the want
of learning is a calamity to any
people.”
Frederick Douglass
“A man learns to skate by
staggering about making a fool of
himself; indeed, he progresses in
all things by making a fool of
himself.”
George Bernard Shaw
“A man of great memory without
learning hath a rock and a spindle
and no staff to spin.”
George Herbert
“A man profits more by the sight
of an idiot than by the orations of
the learned.”
Saudi Arabian Proverb
“A man who carries a cat by the
tail learns something he can learn
in no other way.”
Mark Twain
“A spirit of fun should pervade
every meeting because it helps
people participate and learn.”
Gene Perret
“A spoon does not know the taste
of soup, nor a learned fool the
taste of wisdom.”
Welsh Proverb
“A wise man learns at the fool's
expense.”
Brazilian Proverb
“A wise teacher makes learning a
joy.”
Traditional Proverb
“All I really need to know about how
to live and what to do and how to be
I learned in kindergarten. Remember
the Dick-and-Jane books and the
first word you learned - the biggest
word of all - LOOK.”
Robert Fulghum
“A man in this world without
learning is as a beast of the
field.”
Hindu Proverb
“All men make mistakes, but
only wise men learn from their
mistakes.”
Winston Churchill
“Always keep learning. It keeps
you young.”
Patty Berg
“An individual's self-concept is the core
of his personality. It affects every aspect
of human behaviour: the ability to learn,
the capacity to grow and change . . . . A
strong, positive self-image is the best
possible preparation for success in life.”
Joyce Brothers
“You should keep on learning as
long as there is something you do
not know.”
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
“You're not gonna change any of
them by talkin' right, they've got to
want to learn themselves, and when
they don't want to learn there's
nothing you can do but keep your
mouth shut or talk their language.”
Harper Lee
“There is no time of life past
learning something.”
Saint Ambrose
“Timothy was so learned he
could name a horse in 9
languages, and bought a cow to
ride on.”
Benjamin Franklin
“To try and fail is at least to
learn; to fail to try is to suffer the
inestimable loss of what might
have been.” George Bernard Shaw
“True, a little learning is a
dangerous thing, but it still beats
total ignorance.”
Abigail Van Buren
“Try a thing you haven't done
three times. Once, to get over the
fear of doing it. Twice, to learn
how to do it. And a third time to
figure out whether you like it or
not.”
Virgil Thomson
“We do not learn by inference
and deduction and the application
of mathematics to philosophy, but
by direct intercourse and
sympathy.”
Henry David Thoreau
“We learn from experience that
men never learn anything from
experience.”
George Bernard Shaw
“We must learn to walk before
we can run.”
Traditional Proverb
“We need to learn to set our
course by the stars, not by the
lights of every passing ship.”
Omar Bradley
“We should live and learn; but by
the time we've learned, it's too
late to live.”
Carolyn Wells
“We teach what we learn, and the
cycle goes on.”
Joan L. Curcio
“We worship education but hate
learning.”
Florence King
“The learn'd is happy nature to explore,
The fool is happy that he knows no
more.”
Alexander Pope
“The learner always begins by
finding fault, but the scholar sees
the positive merit in everything.”
Georg Hegel
“The learning process is
something you can incite,
literally incite, like a riot.”
Audre Lorde
“The library is the temple of
learning, and learning has
liberated more people than all the
wars in history.”
Carl Rowan
“The man who is too old to learn
was probably always too old to
learn.”
Henry S. Haskins
“The person who risks nothing, does
nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and
becomes nothing. He may avoid
suffering and sorrow, but he simply
cannot learn and feel and change and
grow and love and live.”
Leo Buscaglia
“The process of learning requires
not only hearing and applying but
also forgetting and then
remembering again.”
John Gray
“The purpose of learning is
growth, and our minds, unlike
our bodies, can continue growing
as we continue to live.”
Mortimer Adler
“The shortest and surest way of
arriving at real knowledge is to
unlearn the lessons we have been
taught, to mount the first
principles, and take nobody's
word about them.”
Henry St. John Bolingbroke
“The things we have to learn
before we can do them, we learn
by doing them.”
Aristotle
“The trouble with learning from
experience is that you never
graduate.”
Doug Larson
“The trouble with man is
twofold. He cannot learn the
truths which are too complicated;
he forgets truths which are too
simple.”
Rebecca West
“The wisest mind has something
yet to learn.”
George Santayana
“The world of learning is so
broad, and the human soul is so
limited in power! We reach forth
and strain every nerve, but we
seize only a bit of the curtain that
hides the infinite from us.”
Maria Mitchell
“There are no mistakes, no
coincidences, all events are
blessings given to us to learn
from.”
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
“There are some things you learn
best in calm, and some in storm.”
Willa Cather
“There are three ingredients in
the good life: learning, earning,
and yearning.”
Christopher Morley
“There is no easy method of
learning difficult things. The
method is to close the door, give
out that you are not at home, and
work.”
Joseph Marie De Maistre
“There is no need to education. It
is not that you read a book, pass
an examination, and finish with
education. The whole of life,
from the moment you are born to
the moment you die, is a process
of learning.”
Jiddu Krishnamurti
“There is no such whetstone, to
sharpen a good wit and
encourage a will to learning, as is
praise.”
Roger Ascham
“Some days you must learn a great
deal. But you should also have days
when you allow what is already in
you to swell up and touch
everything. If you never let that
happen, then you just accumulate
facts, and they begin to rattle around
inside of you.”
E. L. Konigsburg
“Some wisdom you must learn
from one who's wise.”
Euripides
“Soon learned, soon forgotten.”
Traditional Proverb
“Strange as it may seem, no
amount of learning can cure
stupidity, and formal education
positively fortifies it.”
Stephen Vizinczey
“Strong people make as many
and as ghastly mistakes as weak
people. The difference is that
strong people admit them, laugh
at them, learn from them. That is
how they become strong.”
Richard J. Needham
“Such is the nature of men, that
howsoever they may
acknowledge many others to be
more witty, or more eloquent, or
more learned; yet they will hardly
believe there be many so wise as
themselves.”
Thomas Hobbes
“Suppose that we are wise enough to
learn and know -- and yet not wise
enough to control our learning and
knowledge, so that we use it to
destroy ourselves? Even if that is so,
knowledge remains better than
ignorance.”
Isaac Asimov
“Take the attitude of a student,
Never be to big to ask questions,
Never know to much to learn
something new.”
Og Mandino
“Teaching is the royal road to
learning.”
Jessamyn West
“That is what learning is. You
suddenly understand something
you've understood all your life,
but in a new way.”
Doris Lessing
“That's what learning is, after all: not
whether we lose the game, but how
we lose and how we've changed
because of it, and what we take away
from it that we never had before, to
apply to other games. Losing, in a
curious way, is winning.”
Richard Bach
“The beautiful thing about
learning is nobody can take it
away from you.”
B. B. King
“The biggest job we have is to
teach a newly hired employee
how to fail intelligently. We have
to train him to experiment over
and over and to keep on trying
and failing until he learns what
will work.”
Charles Kettering
“The books that help you most are
those which make you think that
most. The hardest way of learning is
that of easy reading; but a great book
that comes from a great thinker is a
ship of thought, deep freighted with
truth and beauty.”
Theodore Parker
“The excitement of learning
separates youth from old age. As
long as you're learning you're not
old.”
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
“The head learns new things, but
the heart forever more practices
old experiences.”
Henry Ward Beecher
“The important thing is to learn a
lesson every time you lose. Life is a
learning process and you have to try
to learn what's best for you. Let me
tell you, life is not fun when you're
banging your head against a brick
wall all the time.”
John McEnroe
“Not to unlearn what you have
learned is the most necessary
kind of learning.”
Antisthenes
“Nothing said to us, nothing we
can learn from others, reaches us
so deep as that which we find in
ourselves.”
Theodor Reik
“Old men are always young
enough to learn with profit.”
Aeschylus
“Once you have learned what to
unlearn, success will come, so
work and wait.”
Ronald Hambleton
“One must learn by doing the
thing; though you think you
know it, you have no certainty
until you try.”
Sophocles
“One pound of learning requires
ten pounds of common sense to
apply it.”
Persian Proverb
“One who is afraid of asking
questions is ashamed of
learning.”
Danish Proverb
“Practical wisdom is only to be
learned in the school of experience.
Precepts and instruction are useful so
far as they go, but, without the
discipline of real life, they remain of
the nature of theory only.”
Samuel Smiles
“Learning is a treasure that will
follow its owner everywhere.”
Chinese Proverb
“Learning is finding out what we
already know. Doing is
demonstrating that you know it.
Teaching is reminding others that
they know just as well as you.
You are all learners, doers and
teachers.”
Richard Bach
“Learning is not attained by
chance. It must be sought for
with ardour and attended to with
diligence.”
Abigail Adams
“Learning is pleasurable but
doing is the height of
enjoyment.”
Novalis
“Learning makes the wise wiser
and the fool more foolish.”
John Ray
“Live and learn.”
Traditional Proverb
“Love of learning is a pleasant
and universal bond, since it deals
with what one is and not what
one has.”
Freya Stark
“Man can learn nothing except by
going from the known to the
unknown.”
Claude Bernard
“Many times the best way, in fact the
only way, to learn is through
mistakes. A fear of making mistakes
can bring individuals to a standstill,
to a dead centre. Fear is the wicked
wand that transforms human beings
into vegetables.”
George Brown
“More important than learning
how to recall things is finding
ways to forget things that are
cluttering the mind.”
Eric Butterworth
“Much learning does not teach
understanding.”
Heraclitus of Ephesus
“Never become so much of an
expert that you stop gaining
expertise. View life as a
continuous learning experience.”
Denis Waitley
“Never too late to learn.”
Traditional Proverb
“Never try to learn more from an
experience than there is in it.
There are some vivid and painful
experiences that have little to
teach us.”
D. Sutten
“In youth we learn; in age we
understand.”
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
“Instead of looking at life as a
narrowing funnel, we can see it
ever widening to choose the
things we want to do, to take the
wisdom we've learned and create
something.”
Liz Carpenter
“Irregularity and want of method are
only supportable in men of great
learning or genius, who are often too
full to be exact, and therefore they
choose to throw down their pearls in
heaps before the reader, rather than
be at the pains of stringing them.”
Joseph Addison
“It is never too late to learn what
is always necessary to know.”
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
“It is paradoxical that many
educators and parents still
differentiate between a time for
learning and a time for play
without seeing the vital
connection between them.”
Leo Buscaglia
“It is what we think we know
already that often prevents us
from learning.”
Claude Bernard
“It's okay to make mistakes.
Mistakes are our teachers -- they
help us to learn.”
John Bradshaw
“Knowledge increases in
proportion to its use -- that is, the
more we teach the more we
learn.”
Helena Petrova Blavatsky
“Knowledge is gained by
learning; trust by doubt; skill by
practice; love by love.”
Thomas Szasz
“Knowledge is proud that he has
learned so much;
Wisdom is humble that he knows no
more.”
William Cowper
“Learn from everyone, copy no
one.”
Don Shula
“Learn from the mistakes of
others. You can't live long
enough to make them all
yourself.”
Martin Vanbee
“Learning . . . should be a joy and
full of excitement. It is life's
greatest adventure; it is an
illustrated excursion into the
mind of noble and learned men,
not a conducted tour through a
jail.”
Taylor Caldwell
“I think the one lesson I have
learned is that there is no
substitute for paying attention.”
Diane Sawyer
“I'd like to be a bigger and more
knowledgeable person 10 years from
now than I am today. I think that, for
all of us, as we grow older, we must
discipline ourselves to continue
expanding, broadening, learning,
keeping our minds active and open.”
Clint Eastwood
“Ideas are like rabbits. You get a
couple and learn how to handle
them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.”
John Steinbeck
“If a man has a talent and cannot
use it, he has failed. If he has a
talent and uses only half of it, he
has partly failed. If he has a talent
and learns somehow to use the
whole of it, he has gloriously
succeeded . . .”
Thomas Wolfe
“In every man there is something
wherein I may learn of him, and
in that I am his pupil.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I have learned the novice can
often see things that the expert
overlooks. All that is necessary is
not to be afraid of making
mistakes, or of appearing naive.”
Abraham Maslow
“I learned much more from
defeat than I ever learned from
winning.”
Grantland Rice
“I never learn anything talking. I
only learn things when I ask
questions.”
Lou Holtz
“I think success has no rules, but
you can learn a great deal from
failure.”
Jean Kerr
“Failure is instructive. The
person who really thinks learns
quite as much from his failures as
from his successes.”
John Dewey
“He that knew all that ever
learning writ,
Knew only this -- that he knew
nothing yet.”
Aphra Behn
“He who has imagination without
learning has wings and no feet.”
Joseph Joubert
“He who is afraid to ask is
ashamed of learning.”
Danish Proverb
“He who laughs most, learns
best.”
John Cleese
“Human beings, who are almost
unique in having the ability to
learn from the experience of
others, are also remarkable for
their apparent disinclination to do
so. ”
Douglas Adams
“By learning you will teach, by
teaching you will learn.”
Latin Proverb
“Curiosity is the wick in the
candle of learning.”
William A. Ward
“Every act of conscious learning
requires the willingness to suffer
an injury to one's self-esteem.
That is why young children,
before they are aware of their
own self-importance, learn so
easily . . .”
Thomas Szasz
‘The mind cannot absorb what
the seat cannot endure!’
Jenny Madden
‘Intelligence is proved not by
ease of learning but by
understanding what we learn.’
Joseph Whitney
“To teach is to learn again.”
Anonymous
“Education is not the filling of a pail,
but the lighting of a fire”
William Butler Yeats
“Don't try to teach a pig to sing. It's a
waste of time and it annoys the pig.”
Anonymous
“The secret of education is
respecting the pupil.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson