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Learning Quotes

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Your expected gains from any learning experience are directly proportionate to what you put into it.

You live and learn. At any rate, you live.

– Douglas Adams

You have as much learning as you put into practice, and you are as good a preacher as you do what you say.

– Francis of Assisi

You aint learnin nothing when youre talking.

– Plaque on Lyndon Johnston’s Senate office wall

Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.

– Josh Billings

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

– Leonardo da Vinci

When I teach, I learn.

What you know Grows up into what you think you know Which leads to what you ‘d like to know About what you didn’t even know you wanted to know.

– The Discovery Channel

What we learn to do, we learn by doing.

What makes us successful is not what we are striving for. It’s what we learn by the striving itself.

– Grant M. Bright

We learn from experience that people never learn anything from experience.

– George Bernard Shaw

View life as a Scavenger Hunt. The objective is to retrieve or discover obscure information or items; a fact-finding mission; a means of learning and having fun at the same time.

They know enough who know how to learn.

– Henry Brooks Adams

There is nothing as stupid as an educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.

The things we know best are the things we haven’t been taught.

– Marquis de Vauvenargues

The illiterate of the future are not those who cannot read or write. They are those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.

– Alvin Toffler

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

Statement: “If I’ve told you once, I’ve told you a thousand times …” Response: “If you’ve told me a thousand times, isn’t it about time that you learned something?”

Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

– Edward Morgan Forster

Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others, it is the only means.

– Albert Einstein

Personally I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

– Winston Churchill

One’s future will depend on their ability to learn faster and respond to change quicker than their competitors.

Merely having an open mind is nothing; the object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

– G.K. Chesterton

Liberty without learning is always in peril, and learning without liberty is always in vain.

– John F. Kennedy

Learning through experience: A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn no other way.

Learning takes place when you suddenly understand something you’ve understood all your life, but in a new way.

– Doris Lessing

Learning makes a man fit company for himself.

– Thomas Fuller

Learning is not a spectator sport. People learn best not by being told but by experiencing the consequences of their thoughts and actions.

Learning isnt something that just takes place in the classroom. It happens every minute of your life!

– Grant M. Bright

Learning is discovery… but discovery does not happen until first you are looking.