Learning Quotes

"I am old-fashioned, or sentimental, or something, about books! Whenever I read one, I want in the first place, to enjoy myself, and, in the next place, to feel that I am a little better and not a little worse for having read it."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"In my experience, you learn far more from winning, which also makes your players more receptive to criticism."

- Bill Parcells

"Go forth under the open sky, and list To Nature's teachings."

- William Cullen Bryant

"In order to make progress, there is only nature, and the eye is turned through contact with her."

- Paul Cezanne

"The most perfect steersman that you can have, and the best helm, lies in the triumphal gateway of copying from nature. And this outdoes all other models; and always rely on this with a stout heart, especially as you begin to gain some judgment in draftsmanship."

- Cennino Cennini

"Free curiosity has greater power to stimulate learning than rigorous coercion. Nevertheless, the free ranging flux of curiosity is channeled by discipline under Your Law."

- St. Augustine of Hippo

"The more you learn, the more you earn because you become more valuable to yourself, your company, and your customers."

- Adapted from Warren Buffet

"Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught."

- Winston Churchill

"Smart people learn from everything and everyone. Average people from their experiences. Stupid people already have all the answers."

- Socrates

"I learned all about life with a ball at my feet"

- Ronaldinho

"The best hairdressers never stop learning."

- SalonsDirect

"Everything I learned I learned from the movies."

- Audrey Hepburn

"A plant is the most patient and forgiving teacher."

- Srikumar Rao

"I sit and eat with some of the hardest working people in the business. And I observe and I try to apply it to my own craft."

- Drake

"In return, Joe taught Jay more about the garden. Slowly the boy learned to tell lavender from rosemary from hyssop from sage. He learned to taste soil- a pinch between the finger and thumb slipped under the tongue, like a man testing fine tobacco- to determine its acidity. He learned how to calm a headache with crushed lavender, or a stomachache with peppermint. He learned to prepare skullcap tea and chamomile to aid sleep. He learned to plant marigolds in the potato patch to discourage parasites and to pick nettles from the top to make ale and to fork the sign against the evil eye if ever a magpie flew past."

- Joanne Harris

"The more I study, the more I realize how much I don’t know."

- Albert Einstein

"Working together enables us to learn more than we can by ourselves."

- Paul Solarz

"The expert in everything was once a beginner."

- Helen Hayes

"Once a day, especially in the early years of life and study, call yourselves to an account what new ideas, what new proposition or truth you have gained, what further confirmation of known truths, and what advances you have made in any part of knowledge."

- Isaac Watts

"The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don’t know."

- Albert Einstein

"That is the way to learn the most. When you are doing something with such enjoyment that you don’t notice that the time passes."

- Albert Einstein

"Let the young know they will never find a more interesting, more instructive book than the patient himself."

- Giorgio Baglivi

"I wanted to know the name of every stone and flower and insect and bird and beast. I wanted to know where it got its color, where it got its life - but there was no one to tell me."

- George Washington Carver

"From a child, I had an inordinate desire for knowledge and especially music, painting, flowers, and the sciences, Algebra being one of my favorite studies."

- George Washington Carver

"Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God."

- George Washington Carver

"Every experience I have is a gift. I learn and grow as a result."

"The most valuable lessons in your life will most likely come from the most obvious places (in hindsight)."

"Every reflection brings a deeper understanding and appreciation for my mother’s lessons."

"The lessons learned from a mother’s lap endure through generations of daughters."

"Through this year, we've learned from one another. Moving on is proof of our success."