Sayings about Learning
Gold has its price; learning is beyond price. ~ Chinese Proverbs
Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. ~Chinese Proverb
Despise learning and make everyone pay for your ignorance. ~ Chinese Proverb
You are learning all your life and you die stupid. ~ Lithuanian Proverbs
What is good to know is difficult to learn. ~ Greek Proverbs
What is learned in youth is carved in stone. ~ Arabian Proverbs
To be without learning, is to be without eyes. ~ Lithuanian Proverb
The most learned are not the wisest. ~ Dutch Proverbs
Soon learned, soon forgotten. ~ Traditional Proverb
One who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning. ~ Danish Proverbs
Never too late to learn. ~ Traditional Proverb
One pound of learning requires ten pounds of common sense to apply it. ~ Persian Proverbs
Live to live and you will learn to live. ~ Portuguese Proverbs
Man is learning all his life and yet he dies in ignorance. ~ Yugoslavian Proverb
Learning means loving the country. ~ Lao Proverbs
Learning is treasure no thief can touch. ~ Chinese Proverb
Learn from your tears and you will win laughing. ~ Spanish Proverbs
He who speaks a lot learns little. ~ Armenian Proverbs
If you wish to learn the highest truth, begin with the alphabet. ~ Japanese Proverbs
It is too late to learn to swim when the water is up to your lips. ~ Danish Proverb
A day of travelling will bring a basket-ful of learning. ~ Vietnamese Proverbs
A donkey that carries a lot of books is not necessarily learned. ~ Danish Proverb
A learned man has always wealth in himself. ~ Latin Proverbs
A learned man without work is a cloud without rain. ~ Arabian Proverb
A man in this world without learning is as a beast of the field. ~ Hindu Proverb
A trade not properly learned is an enemy. ~ Irish Proverbs
A wise man learns at the fool’s expense. ~ Brazilian Proverbs
An ounce of discretion is worth a pound of learning. ~ Traditional Proverb
By learning you will teach, by teaching you will learn. ~ Latin Proverb
Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time. ~ Chinese Proverb
Each day learns from the one before it, but no day teaches the one after it. ~ Russian Proverbs
Even a thief takes ten years to learn his trade. ~ Japanese Proverb
He who is afraid to ask is ashamed of learning. ~ Danish Proverb
Learn about the future by looking at the past. ~ Tamil Proverbs
Learning is like rowing upstream: not to advance is to drop back. ~Chinese Proverb
Learning makes a man fit company for himself as well as for others. ~ English Proverb
Live and learn, die and forget it all. ~ Native American Proverb
Men learn little from success, but much from failure. ~ Arabian Proverb
One should learn to sail in all winds. ~ Italian Proverbs
One who wants to know is better than one who already knows. ~ Yiddish Proverb
Only by falling do you learn how to mount a horse. ~ Kurdish Proverbs
People who do not break things first will never learn to create anything. ~ Filipino Proverbs
The person that learns well also defends himself well. ~ Argentine Proverb
The wise man learns more from his enemies than a fool does from his friends. ~ Chinese Proverb
There are no national frontiers to learning. ~ Japanese Proverb
There’s no fool like a learned fool. ~ Italian Proverb
To learn about other people is science, to learn to know yourself is intelligence. ~ Chinese Proverb
To learn what is good, a thousand days are not sufficient; to learn what is evil, an hour is too long. ~ Chinese Proverb
We learn by watching and listening. ~ Japanese Proverb
We learn little from victory, but a great deal from defeat. ~ Japanese Proverb
We must learn to walk before we can run. ~ Traditional Proverb
Wealth diminishes with usage; learning increases with use. ~ Zanzibar Proverbs
Wise men learn at another’s expense. ~ Norwegian Proverbs
You will never learn enough looking for only the good things in life; you will always be a pupil. ~ Japanese Proverb
Quotations about Learning
Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century. ~ Sidney Joseph
You learn something every day if you pay attention. ~ Ray LeBlond
Never stop learning. If you learn one new thing everyday, you will overcome 99% of your competition. ~ Joe Carlozo
Personally, I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught. ~ Winston Churchill
We often learn–by unlearning. ~ Edward Counsel
People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground. ~ Marcel Proust
It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies–seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends. ~ Charles Caleb Colton
Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail. ~ Luciano Pavarotti
Learning is its own exceeding great reward. ~ William Hazlitt
The brighter you are, the more you have to learn. ~ Don Herold
Learn avidly. Question repeatedly what you have learned. Analyze it carefully. Then put what you have learned into practice intelligently. ~ Confucius
We learn the rope of life by untying its knots. ~ Jean Toomer
He is not likely to learn who is not willing to be taught; for the learner has something to do, as well as the teacher. ~ Benjamin Whichcote
Out of too much learning become mad. ~ Robert Burton
If you want learning, you must work for it. ~ Josiah Gilbert Holland
In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him, and in that I am his pupil. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual. ~ Arthur Koestler
The head learns new things, but the heart forever more practices old experiences. ~ Henry Ward Beecher
Learning passes for wisdom among those who want both. ~ Sir William Temple
While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die. ~ Leonardo Da Vinci
People learn something every day, and a lot of times it’s that what they learned the day before was wrong. ~ Bill Vaughan
It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts. ~ Harry S Truman
He, who learns and makes no use of his learning, is a beast of burden, with a load of books. ~ Moslih Eddin
A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people. ~ Will Rogers
One of the best ways to learn anything is to teach yourself. ~ Giles Sutherland Rich
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. ~ Henry Ford
You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking. ~ Lyndon B. Johnson
The least of the work of learning is done in the classroom. ~ Thomas Merton
Live to learn and you will really learn to live. ~ John C. Maxwell
It is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows. ~ Epictetus
Some people are so busy in learning the tricks of the trade that they never learn the trade. ~ Vernon Law
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. ~ Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Be quick to learn and wise to know. ~ George Burns
In order to learn, one must change one’s mind. ~ Orson Scott Card
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world. ~ Helen Keller
I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma. ~ Eartha Kitt
All learning has an emotional base. I grow old learning something new every day. ~ SolonPlato
The wisest mind has something yet to learn. ~ George Santayana
If we succeed in giving the love of learning, the learning itself is sure to follow. ~ Sir John Lubbock
Learn as much as you can while you are young, since life becomes too busy later. ~ Dana Stewart Scott
Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous. ~ Confucius
Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty. ~ Roger Ascham
No man is so learned but he may be taught; neither is any one so illiterate but he may teach. ~ William Scott Downey
Try to learn something about everything and everything about something. ~ Thomas H. Huxley
One learns by doing the thing; for though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try. ~ Sophocles
Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned. ~ Mark Twain
That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you’ve understood all your life, but in a new way. ~ Doris Lessing
What matters most is that we learn from living. ~ Doris Lessing
Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn and you will. ~ Vernon Howard
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
The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live. ~ Mortimer Adler
It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning. ~ Claude Bernard
More can be learned from what works than from what fails. ~ Rene Dubos
Learning isn’t a means to an end; it is an end in itself. ~ Robert Heinlein
He who refuses to learn deserves extinction. ~ Rabbi Hillel
It is not hard to learn more. What is hard is to unlearn when you discover yourself wrong. ~ Martin H. Fischer
It takes a great deal of living to get a little deal of learning. ~ John Ruskin
Learning is not child’s play; we cannot learn without pain. ~ Aristotle
Much learning does not teach understanding. ~ Heraclitus
There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning. ~ Christopher Morley
The man who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is uneducated the day after. ~ Newton D. Baker
Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning. ~ Benjamin Disraeli
A university should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning. ~ Benjamin Disraeli
A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad. ~ Bob Edwards
There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art. ~ Anthony Trollope
Who so neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future. ~ Euripides
There is no better way to learn than to teach. ~ Benjamin Whichcote
What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing. ~ Aristotle
One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure. ~ John W. Gardner
A man doesn’t learn to understand anything unless he loves it. ~ Goethe
Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow. ~ Anthony J. D’Angelo
I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught. ~ Winston Churchill
I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me. ~ Dudley Field Malone
No man ever prayed heartily without learning something. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is always in season for old men to learn. ~ Aeschylus
Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life. ~ Karl Kraus
Learning, to be of much use, must have a tendency to spread itself among the common people. ~ Henry Ward Beecher
Learning how to learn is life’s most important skill. ~ Tony Buzan
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
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