Learning Quotes: Inspiring Words for Lifelong Growth (Page 2)

"I opened my own restaurant when I was 17. I went broke, then traveled around the country, learning about different kinds of foods, had three other restaurants that went broke. It didn't all start just a few years ago!"

Paul Prudhomme, Celebrity

"If we have a chance of succeeding and bringing stability and democracy to Iraq, it will mean learning from our mistakes, not denying them and not ignoring them"

Carl Levin, Politician

"Isn't one of your first exercises in learning how to communicate to write a description of how to tie your shoelaces? The point being that it's basically impossible to use text to show that"

Donald Norman, Scientist

"Yes, it is a rehearsed show, yes, it was analogy of going to see a play at the theatre, where everything has to be in place and whole things, everything being works, all works together to get the best effect you know it's more like an actor learning a part"

John Deacon, Musician

"Quality afterschool programs provide safe, engaging and fun learning experiences to help children and youth develop their social, emotional, physical, cultural and academic skills"

Debbie Stabenow, Politician

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

S. J. Perelman, Writer

"I saw why people died and how they died. I saw gunshot wounds and liver failure. It was a good learning experience, so I came regularly on weekends and holidays"

Michael Baden, Celebrity

"The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history"

Carl T. Rowan, Journalist

"Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I should simply recognize, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten"

Andre Breton, Poet

"Some people are so busy learning the tricks of the trade that they never learn the trade"

Vernon Law, Athlete

"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"

Jonathan Davis, Musician

"Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things"

Flora Lewis, Journalist

"And initially, a lot of companies avoid trying to make a really radical new kind of title for a new system, because that would involve learning a new machine and learning how to make the new title at the same time"

Trip Hawkins, Businessman

"Good education means learning to read, write and most importantly learn how to learn so that you can be whatever you want to be when you grow up"

Patty Murray, Politician

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

Abigail Adams, First Lady

"Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"No man ever prayed heartily without learning something"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

"Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost"

Thomas Fuller, Clergyman

"If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"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"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future"

Euripides, Poet

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

George Herbert, Poet

"Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning"

Thomas Jefferson, President

"The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time"

Rabindranath Tagore, Poet

"The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant"

Plato, Philosopher

"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 a bad training, are a much greater misfortune"

Plato, Philosopher

"I would fain grow old learning many things"

Plato, Philosopher

"Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal"

Plato, Philosopher

"The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone"

Albert Camus, Philosopher

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

Edward Young, Poet

"Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little wordings enjoy"

Edward Young, Poet

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

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them"

Michel de Montaigne, Philosopher

"Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"The chess player who develops the ability to play two dozen boards at a time will benefit from learning to compress his or her analysis into less time"

Marilyn vos Savant, Author

"Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning"

Bill Gates, Businessman

"Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other"

John F. Kennedy, President

"Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss"

Douglas Adams, Writer

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