“For the things we have to learn before we can do, we learn by doing.”

“Nothing fails like success, because we do not learn anything from it. We only learn from failure, but we do not always learn the right things from failure. If there is a failure of expectations, that is, if the messages that we receive are not the same as those we expected, we can make three possible inferences.”

Kenneth E. Boulding (1910–1993) British-American economist

“We learn from history that we do not learn from history.”

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831) German philosopher

“We learn to do by doing.”

Spencer W. Kimball (1895–1985) President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

“We know a history so that we can learn from it. We learn our history because we understand the sacrifices that were made before, so that when we make sacrifices we understand we're doing it on behalf of future generations. There’s a proverb that says, “We have not inherited this land from our forebears, we have borrowed it from our children.” In other words, we study the past so it can guide us into the future, and inspire us to do better.”

Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America

“We do not learn from experience… we learn from reflecting on experience.”

John Dewey (1859–1952) American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer

“It is inbred in us that we have to do exceptional things for God: but we have not. We have to be exceptional in the ordinary things, to be holy in mean streets, among mean people, and this is not learned in five minutes”

Oswald Chambers (1874–1917) British missionary

“We must do the thing we must
Before the thing we may;
We are unfit for any trust
Till we can and do obey.”

George MacDonald (1824–1905) Scottish journalist, novelist

“Because learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do.”

Umberto Eco book The Name of the Rose

“I am learning that we still have things to learn.”

Robert A. Heinlein book The Number of the Beast