Learning Quotes

The only kind of learning which significantly influences behavior is self-discovered or self-appropriated learning - truth that has been assimilated in experience.

Retention is best when the learner is involved.
Edward Scannell

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
B. F. Skinner

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

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

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

More important than learning how to recall things is finding ways to forget things that are cluttering the mind.
James Waddell Alexander

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.

You teach best what you most need to learn.
Richard David Bach

He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
Gaius Julius Caesar

The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practised, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. . . . God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.
Pierre Charron

The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown.

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

It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.

The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain, to show them that we love them, not when we feel like it, but when they do.
Nan Fairbrother

Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.

You can never learn less, you can only learn more.

I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me.
Dudley Field Malone

The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.

He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

In a philosophical dispute, he gains most who is defeated, since he learns most.

The more you learn, the more you become aware of what you have yet to learn.

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







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