Quotes About Learning that Resonate
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.
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
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/[Notes]:
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.
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
Indeed, learning to write may be part of learning to read. For all I know, writing comes out of a superior devotion to reading.
A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
Longer Version/[Notes]:
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.
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.
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.
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.
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.
Language learning deserves special mention. It is, bar none, the best thing you can do to hone clear thinking.
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.
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.
Persistent questioning and healthy inquisitiveness are the first requisite for acquiring learning of any kind.
Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.
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.
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.
We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.
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.
