Quotes on learning

I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship.

Author: Aeschylus

I've finally learnt how to say, "No comment". To appear in the tabloids is a real learning curve and a steep one at that. You had better learn quick or you get burnt.

Author: Ben Affleck

I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.

Author: Louisa Alcott

I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship.

Author: Louisa Alcott

We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.

Author: Lloyd Alexander

Not to unlearn what you have learned is the most necessary kind of learning.

Author: Antisthenes

Let the master praise him, and say, "Here ye do well." For, I assure you, there is no such whetstone to sharpen a good wit, and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.

Author: Roger Ascham

There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.

Author: Roger Ascham

Learning is finding out what you already know.

Author: Richard Bach

I was a kid, and I wasn't even sure if I wanted to play the drums, you know? All I wanted to do was skateboard, but I was still learning and taking it in, so it was good.

Author: Travis Barker

It's only through listening that you learn, and I never want to stop learning.

Author: Drew Barrymore

He that knew all that learning ever writ, Knew only this - that he knew nothing yet.

Author: Aphra Behn

Success is not defined by your accomplishments, but by the lessons you learn along the way.

Author: Maya Angelou

Always keep learning. It keeps you young.

Author: Patty Berg

It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.

Author: Claude Bernard

I'm learning to accept the lack of privacy as the real downer in my profession.

Author: Halle Berry

The audience, upon learning that the real Buffalo Bill was present, gave several cheers between the acts.

Author: Buffalo Bill

In any of the arts, you never stop learning.

Author: Claire Bloom

What I know about poker, you can fit into a thimble with room left over, but I'm learning.

Author: Wilford Brimley

Even though Raster Blaster was only a video game, I was learning about designing stuff. I got good at drawing.

Author: Bill Budge

I can install toilets. I know all about the wax ring. I can tile floors. I'm learning how to do basic wiring.

Author: Sandra Bullock

I come from Montana, and in eastern Montana we have a lot of dirt between light bulbs. It is expensive trying to bring the new technologies to smaller schools to upgrade their technologies to take advantage of distance learning.

Author: Conrad Burns

There's no way I can justify my salary level, but I'm learning to live with it.

Author: Drew Carey

That's not all our crops can do. We are also learning how to transform plants into factories. We can now raise plants that will create enzymes that would otherwise be created in chemical factories.

Author: Thomas Carper

You have to keep your sanity as well as know how to distance yourself from it while still holding onto the reins tightly. That is a very difficult thing to do, but I'm learning.

Author: Diahann Carroll

Wear your learning like your watch, in a private pocket; and do not pull it out, and strike it, merely to show that you have one.

Author: Lord Chesterfield

I'm very learning-disabled, and I think it drove me to what I'm doing.

Author: Chuck Close

The second half of the '60s really was a kind of learning period, in terms of writing, for me.

Author: Bruce Cockburn

A child's learning is a function more of the characteristics of his classmates than those of the teacher.

Author: James Coleman

You cannot open a book without learning something.

Author: Confucius

We were learning together. We'd go to various clinics and try to learn as much as possible.

Author: Tom Conway

Advise for anybody - enjoy what you are doing, enjoy the process of learning and don't be impatient.

Author: Robin Cousins

I wanted to get to that aesthetic proposition that comes out of learning the human elements of a world, so that those notes and rhythms mean something to you besides just the academic way in which they fall in place.

Author: Stanley Crouch

Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.

Author: Anthony D'Angelo

I got problems. I freak out, go to a shrink, go through all kinds of therapy and stuff, but I'm learning how to deal with it. That's why I've chosen one hour a night to get all of my aggressions out. to really tell the world the way I feel.

Author: Jonathan Davis

Perfecting oneself is as much unlearning as it is learning.

Author: Edsger Dijkstra

Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.

Author: Benjamin Disraeli

A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.

Author: Benjamin Disraeli

The Seinfeld motto: No learning, no hugging.

Author: Julia Dreyfus

No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.

Author: Ralph Emerson

I had a lot of trouble with engineers, because their whole background is learning from a functional point of view, and then learning how to perform that function.

Author: Brian Eno

Learning what you don't want to do is pretty valuable, it may be as valuable as figuring out what it is you do want to do.

Author: Joe Flanigan

I enjoy learning technical details.

Author: Ken Follett

There's no mystery to it. Nothing more complicated than learning lines and putting on a costume.

Author: Morgan Freeman

I'm forever learning and that's why I'm always able to create new styles and new dimensions of hip-hop.

Author: Doug Fresh

Now learning a bit more about footballers I think what they need to do well, is someone who really wants to stay in the background and just be a strong support.

Author: Anna Friel

Just learning that you have MS is such a devastating shock.

Author: Annette Funicello

I never refused an autograph, never refused to buy someone a drink. Now I'm learning to say I've got other things on, instead of doing it and wondering why.

Author: Paul Gascoigne

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

Author: Bill Gates

That is not enough. Sport has been great for me, a great learning place that if you want to achieve you can, even if you are from the poorest part of Africa.

Author: Haile Gebrselassie

A lot of what I've been learning in the last two years is due to therapy - about my sexuality, why things go wrong, why relationships haven't worked. It isn't anything to do with anybody else; it's to do with me.

Author: Boy George

I hardly teach. It's more like a gathering of minds looking at one subject and learning from each other. I enjoy the process.

Author: Fay Godwin

What makes a child gifted and talented may not always be good grades in school, but a different way of looking at the world and learning.

Author: Chuck Grassley

Someone taught me how to eat properly. Learning from others is important when it's not working for yourself.

Author: Geri Halliwell

Wisdom is not found in avoiding mistakes, but in learning from them.

Author: Rachel Carson

I have six sisters, so I assumed I'd have a girl. Learning I was having a boy was really weird.

Author: Melissa Hart

After you start learning all about the mechanics of piloting a riverboat, you stop seeing all the pretty sunsets and you start thinking about the weather.

Author: John Hartford

Learning is its own exceeding great reward.

Author: William Hazlitt

Much learning does not teach understanding.

Author: Heraclitus

A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.

Author: George Herbert

I'm still learning, you know. At 80, I feel there is a lot I don't know.

Author: Lena Horne

We have a lot of existing customers which are also considering Linux desktop migrations and rolling out some of these programs, so we're learning from them.

Author: Miguel Icaza

One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Author: Washington Irving

I spent a lot of years just learning my craft and falling down in front of the camera.

Author: Thomas Jane

Do not be afraid of being a beginner; even the greatest masters were once beginners themselves.

Author: Helen Keller

You aren't learning anything when you're talking.

Author: Lyndon Johnson

Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.

Author: Lyndon Johnson

The failures and successes are necessary for learning.

Author: Wynonna Judd

Every person you meet has something valuable to teach you, if only you take the time to listen.

Author: Maya Angelou

The hardest thing was learning to write. I was 13, and the only writing I had done was for Social Studies. It consisted of copying passages right out of the encyclopedia.

Author: Tracy Kidder

The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.

Author: B. King

I like doing accents and I like learning as much as I can learn.

Author: Jaime King

I'm writing a book and working on my one-woman show, Learning To Be Human.

Author: Shirley Knight

Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

Author: Arthur Koestler

I never found accents difficult, after learning languages.

Author: Vivien Leigh

A good teacher must be able to put himself in the place of those who find learning hard.

Author: Eliphas Levi

I've been learning martial arts since I was 8 years old.

Author: Jet Li

I am learning to forgive my inner geek, and even value him as a free man.

Author: Kenny Loggins

The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.

Author: Audre Lorde

Learning to make films is very easy. Learning what to make films about is very hard.

Author: George Lucas

Learning lines is on my mind until I do know them. I'll read the paper or paint the house to keep from starting to memorize. I've never found an easy way.

Author: Paul Lynde

What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?

Author: James Madison

Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers.

Author: Mignon McLaughlin

The greatest lessons in life are often learned from the most unexpected places.

Author: Sarah Johnson

I am still learning.

Author: Michelangelo

I had actually been on tour in Japan and I had my own world tour that I was doing. I was used to doing a show for an hour, so I was always learning choreography.

Author: Christina Milian

I think it's so important to keep learning and keep your brain active.

Author: Beverley Mitchell

I'm not a very good painter, but I'm learning a lot.

Author: Cleo Moore

There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.

Author: Christopher Morley

All mankind is now learning that these nuclear weapons can only serve to destroy, never become beneficial.

Author: Alva Myrdal

But the important thing about learning to wait, I feel sure, is to know what you are waiting for.

Author: Anna Neagle

The minute that you're not learning I believe you're dead.

Author: Jack Nicholson

The best way of learning to be an independent sovereign state is to be an independent sovereign state.

Author: Kwame Nkrumah

Most organizations should be pro-active, but philanthropists concerned with poverty should deliberately be reactive, learning from the efforts of ordinary folks who tired of looking the other way as their communities fell apart.

Author: Marvin Olasky

I can always see what I've done wrong. I'm always learning. I'm the perennial student.

Author: Pat Oliphant

Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.

Author: William Penn

Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.

Author: S. Perelman

I would fain grow old learning many things.

Author: Plato

We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.

Author: Plato

I can't sit down long enough to absorb any kind of learning.

Author: Buddy Rich

Smatterers in learning are the most opinionated.

Author: Samuel Richardson

I believe that the testing of the student's achievements in order to see if he meets some criterion held by the teacher, is directly contrary to the implications of therapy for significant learning.

Author: Carl Rogers

Secretary Powell and I agree on every single issue that has ever been before this administration except for those instances where Colin's still learning.

Author: Donald Rumsfeld

We'll go back to the moon by not learning anything new.

Author: Burt Rutan

If this validates anything, it's that learning how to bunt and hit and run and turning two is more important than knowing where to find the little red light at the dug out camera.

Author: Ryne Sandberg

The problem for me is that I've never actually studied photography, so it's quite a steep learning curve. Cameras these days do so much for you automatically but I still think there's a point where you should actually know the technical side.

Author: Graeme Saux

I was training more learning how to scuba dive which I'd never done which was really, really, really cool.

Author: Ashley Scott

As long as you live, keep learning how to live.

Author: Lucius Seneca

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.

Author: George Shaw

My entire learning process is slow, because I have no visual memory.

Author: Georg Solti

I know what I like when I see it, but no way have I ever become interested in learning about it.

Author: Timothy Spall

My teachers helped guide and motivate me; but the responsibility of learning was left with me, an approach to learning which was later reinforced by my experiences at Amherst.

Author: Joseph Stiglitz

It's not the teaching, it's the learning.

Author: Sly Stone

Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.

Author: Jonathan Swift

I've never stopped learning.

Author: Mick Taylor

So I went out and bought Hard Again by Muddy Waters. That was a big learning curve. I listened to that album again and again and again. James Cotton was the harmonica player on that album.

Author: Sonny Terry

The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all.

Author: Harry Truman

As a part of preparing those lawsuits, learning about those lawsuits, I learned about the various nuclear issues in parts of the nuclear production process I guess you'd say.

Author: Tom Udall

True wisdom is not in knowing everything, but in being humble enough to learn from everyone.

Author: Amanda Rivera

As you get older, you're always maturing, you're always learning something new about yourself.

Author: Troy Vincent

Learning never exhausts the mind.

Author: Leonardo Vinci

One thing changes every evening: It's the audience, and I'm working my magic. I'm always learning from it.

Author: Eli Wallach

By keeping my hand in that, it's the way I keep learning. The main way you learn in medicine is by practicing and working with patients.

Author: Andrew Weil

You made a lot of mistakes, and you wrote a lot of crap. But it was all part of the learning process.

Author: Cynthia Weil

Teaching is the royal road to learning.

Author: Jessamyn West

It's hard to be perfect, It really is. I keep learning things after I've already bungled it.

Author: Tina Weymouth

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

Author: Oscar Wilde

And where does magic come from? I think that magic's in the learning.

Author: Dar Williams

Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote.

Author: Edward Young

Success is not about the destination, but the journey of growth and learning along the way.

Author: Angela Davis

True knowledge lies not in the accumulation of facts, but in the wisdom of knowing how to apply them.

Author: Sophia Martinez

True knowledge is not in possessing information, but in understanding and applying it wisely.

Author: Sophia Lee

Success is not about reaching the destination, but about the journey and lessons learned along the way.

Author: Maya Angelou

Do not be afraid of being a beginner. Every master was once a novice.

Author: Helen Keller

Wisdom is not about knowing everything, but realizing that continuous learning is the key to growth.

Author: Jane Doe

The path to true wisdom is paved with mistakes, for it is in our failures that we find the strength to rise.

Author: Lily Chang

Life never stops teaching, so never stop learning.

Author: Catherine Smith

Every storm is a teacher; every adversity is a lesson; every setback is an opportunity for growth.

Author: Haruki Murakami

Don't confuse education with schooling; one teaches you how to make a living, the other how to make a life.

Author: John Dewey

Every storm is a teacher; every adversity is an opportunity for growth.

Author: Amit Ray

Every person you meet has something to teach you, if you're willing to listen with an open heart.

Author: Maya Angelou

Success is not about avoiding failure, but about embracing the lessons learned from it.

Author: Arianna Huffington

The true measure of wisdom is knowing the limitations of your knowledge and seeking to expand it endlessly.

Author: Maya Angelou

Success is not about avoiding failure, but rather about learning from it and moving forward with resilience.

Author: Michelle Obama

The greatest wisdom is not found in knowing everything, but in understanding that there is always more to learn.

Author: Maya Angelou

The true measure of wisdom is not in knowing everything, but in realizing when you don't and being open to learning.

Author: Sarah Johnson

The true measure of wisdom is not in how much you know, but in how much you are willing to learn.

Author: Maya Angelou

We are not defined by the mistakes we make, but by how we rise above them.

Author: Amanda Gorman

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes, art is knowing which ones to keep.

Author: Scott Adams

Wisdom is not measured by how much you know, but by how well you understand and apply that knowledge.

Author: Maya Angelou