Quotes
Quotes on learning
“In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities. In the expert's mind there are few.” – Shunryu Suzuki, 1904-1971, Zen Master
“I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.” – Eartha Kitt, 1927-2008, American actress, singer and cabaret star
“Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.” – Bill Gates, 1955- , American business magnate, philanthropist, author, and chairman of Microsoft
“Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.” - C.S. Lewis, 1898-1963, British novelist
“Get over the idea that only children should spend their time in study. Be a student so long as you still have something to learn, and this will mean all your life.” – Henry L Doherty, 1870-1939, American businessman
“He who learns but does not think, is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.” – Confucius, 551-479 BC, Chinese thinker and social philosopher
“Give me a fruitful error any time, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections. You can keep your sterile truth for yourself.” – Vilfredo Pareto, 1848-1923, Italian engineer, sociologist, economist, and philosopher
“Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.” – Alexander Pope, 1688-1744, English poet
“You cannot open a book without learning something.” – Confucius, 551-479 BC, Chinese thinker and social philosopher
“Sit down before fact as a little child; be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.” – Thomas Huxley, 1825-1895, English biologist
“I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.” – Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1865, 16th President of the USA
“Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.” – Chinese Proverb
“There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.” – Willa Cather, 1873-1947, American author
“Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn and you will.” – Vernon Howard, 1918-1992, American spiritual teacher, author, and philosopher
“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty.” – Henry Ford, 1863-1947, American industrialist, founder of Ford Motor Company
“Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily.” – Thomas Szasz, 1920- , psychiatrist and academic
“I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.” – Albert Einstein, 1879-1955, German theoretical physicist
“The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.” – John Powell, 1963- , British composer
“You cannot teach a man anything. You can only help him discover it within himself.” – Galileo Galilei, 1564-1642, Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer and philosopher
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” – Mahatma Gandhi, 1869-1948, political and spiritual leader of India
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