Quotations similar to LEARNING - KNOWLEDGE
Also see LEARNING AFFIRMATIONS
Compiled by Che Garman

Always learn the rules so you can break them properly. - Dalai Lama

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young. - Henry Ford

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn. - Benjamin Franklin

Children share with geniuses an open, inquiring, uninhibited quality of mind. - Chauncey Guy Suits

Critical thinking should centre not on answering questions but on questioning answers. - Sonia Livingstone

Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried. - Frank Tyger

Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something different. - Albert Szent-Györgyi

Don’t just learn something from every experience; learn something positive. - Allen H Neuharth

Each second we live is a new and unique moment of the universe, a moment that never was before and never will be again. - Pablo Casals

Every master was once a disaster. - T Harv Eker

Everything is hard before it's easy. - Goethe

Everyone and everything around you is your teacher. - Ken S. Keyes Jr.

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. - Denis Waitley

Few minds wear out; most rust out. - Christian Nextell Bouee

Great people have not been concerned with fame. The joy of achievement that comes from finding something new in the universe is by far their greatest joy. - William P King

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it. - Salvador Dali

He that has sense knows that learning is not knowledge, but rather the art of using it. - Richard Steele

He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever. - Chinese Proverb

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors. - Thomas Jefferson

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso

I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma. - Eartha Kitt

I forget what I was taught. I only remember what I’ve learnt. - Patrick White

I learned the way a monkey learns - by watching its parents. - Queen Elizabeth II

If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life. - Plato

If you learn only methods, you'll be tied to your methods, but if you learn principles you can devise your own methods. - Ralph W Emerson

In times of change, learners inherit the Earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists. - Eric Hoffer

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

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. - Albert Einstein

It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question. - Eugene Ionesco Decouvertes

It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning. - Claude Bernard

Learn as if you were to live forever. Love as if you were to die tomorrow. - John Wooden

Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. - Chinese Proverb

Learning is a willingness to let one’s ability and attitude change in response to new ideas, information and experiences. - Peter Vaill

Learning is really about translating knowing what to do into doing what we know. - John G Miller

Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. - Jim Rohn

Learning never exhausts the mind. - Leonardo da Vinci

Make a commitment to spend as much on learning each year as you spend on your body to look and smell good. - Dennis Mannering

Nothing ever goes away until it teaches us what we need to know. - Pema Chodron

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely. - Auguste Rodin

Often we must unlearn in order to learn. - Unknown

Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order. - John Quincy Adams

One of the unfortunate things about our education system is that we do not teach students how to avail themselves of their subconscious capabilities. - Bill Lear

Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily. - Johann von Schiller

Other people may be there to help us, teach us, guide us along our path. But, the lesson to be learned is always ours. - Melody Beattie

Sometimes questions are more important than answers. - Nancy Willard

Strength of mind is exercise, not rest. - Alexander Pope

Tell me, I will forget. Show me, I may remember. Involve me, I will understand. - Chinese Proverb

The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn. - Gloria Steinem

The first time you do the impossible, it may take a little longer. - Sheila M Kelly

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. - Albert Einstein

The more involved you are, the more significant your learning will be. - Stephen Covey

The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. - Dee Hock

The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism. - Norman Vincent Peale

There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm. - Willa Carter

There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience, and that is not learning from experience. - Archibald MacLeish

They know enough who know how to learn. - Henry B Adams

Think, think, think. It will hurt like hell at first, but you'll get used to it. - Barbara Castle

To teach is to learn twice. - Joseph Joubert

We can't learn anything new until we can admit that we don't already know everything. - Erwin G Hall

We send our kids off to school to major in labeling and think the ones who do it best deserve the highest grades. - Dr Wayne Dyer

What did you ask at school today? - Richard Feynman

What we learn with pleasure we never forget. - Alfred Mercier

Whatever authority I may have rests solely on knowing how little I know. - Socrates

When I learn something new - and it happens every day - I feel a little more at home in the universe, a little more comfortable in the nest. - Bill Moyers

When the pupil is ready, the teacher will appear. - Zen Proverb

When you lose, don't lose the lesson. - Unknown

You ain’t learnin’ nothin’ when you’re doin’ all the talkin’. - Lyndon B Johnson

You can learn new things at any time in your life if you’re willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you. - Barbara Sher

You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over. - Richard Branson

You must admit what you don't know in order to learn. - Barrie Davenport

You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself. - Sam Levenson

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