Welcome to our curated collection of quotes about learning. Given we produce these collections to help people learn from others whatever resonates with them, we are obviously advocates of lifelong learning and of always embracing a joy of learning. Cheers to you, and hopefully these quotes will be useful to you, and if they are, please share widely.
Expecting all children the same age to learn from the same materials is like expecting all children the same age to wear the same size clothing.
Children want the same things we want. To laugh, to be challenged, to be entertained, and delighted.
A teacher who loves learning earns the right and the ability to help others learn.
Indeed, learning to write may be part of learning to read. For all I know, writing comes out of a superior devotion to reading.
Language learning deserves special mention. It is, bar none, the best thing you can do to hone clear thinking.
You must learn a new way to think before you can master a new way to be.
Our job is obvious: We need to get out of the way, shine a light, and empower a new generation to teach itself and to go further and faster than any generation ever has.
Everything that happens to you is a form of instruction if you pay attention.
The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays and have things arranged for them that they seem so forlornly unable to produce their own ideas.
Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself.
Persistent questioning and healthy inquisitiveness are the first requisite for acquiring learning of any kind.
Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn and you will.
The difference between a stumbling block and a stepping stone is how high you raise your foot.
I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.
A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.
Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.
Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
Either men will learn to live like brothers, or they will die like beasts.
Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.
We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
Longer Version:
We must all learn to live together as brothers or we will all perish together as fools. Because of our involvement in humanity we must be concerned about every human being.
A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
Longer Version:
A person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was getting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him, and warn't ever going to grow dim or doubtful.
The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
Sometimes a little heartbreak is a lesson, and the best thing to do is just learn the lesson.
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.
Cheating in school is a form of self-deception. We go to school to learn. We cheat ourselves when we coast on the efforts and scholarship of someone else.
For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.
We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.
Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
What makes a child gifted and talented may not always be good grades in school, but a different way of looking at the world and learning.
The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.
We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.
The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.
Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn.
