944 private quotes tagged learning

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“Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.”— Ambrose Bierce
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“Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?”— Bill Watterson
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“It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.”— John Wooden
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“The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.”— Thomas Aquinas
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“If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself.”— Charles M. Schulz
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“If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.”— George Bernard Shaw
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“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
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“An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.”— Jack Welch
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“The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.”— Albert Einstein
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“Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities - that's training or instruction - but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed.”— Thomas Moore
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“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?”— James Madison
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“I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.”— George Bernard Shaw
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“If I am through learning, I am through.”— John Wooden
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“I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”— Henry David Thoreau
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“It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.”— Henry David Thoreau
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“A child's learning is a function more of the characteristics of his classmates than those of the teacher.”— James S. Coleman
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“Defense is a definite part of the game, and a great part of defense is learning to play it without fouling.”— John Wooden
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“While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.”— Leonardo da Vinci
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“The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.”— Antisthenes
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“Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.”— Thomas Fuller
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“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
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“The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all.”— Harry S. Truman
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“No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.”— Josh Billings
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“As long as you live, keep learning how to live.”— Lucius Annaeus Seneca