
“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.”
A collection of quotes on the topic of learning, doing, use, thing.
“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.”
“I have learned that to be with those I like is enough”
“We can only learn to love by loving.”
The Bell (1958), ch. 19; 2001, p. 219.
“To learn to succeed, you must first learn to fail.”
“We learn from history that we don't learn from history!”
Often attributed to Desmond Tutu, actual source is G. W. F Hegel: What experience and history teach is this — that nations and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it. Lectures on the Philosophy of History (1832)
Misattributed
“God created war so that Americans would learn geography.”
“You cannot open a book without learning something.”
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Education for All People and Education for Life
The Reason and the objective of Education Reform
Education for All People and Education for Life
“I strongly believe that, as a citizen of the world, any person has the right to learn”
Education for All People and Education for Life
“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.”
“The learning must belong to the learners and not to the teachers.”
The Learner
“Learn to pay yourself first, you'll never be broke”
Learning
Teacher
“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life — It goes on.”
As quoted in The Harper Book of Quotations (1993) edited by Robert I. Fitzhenry, p. 261
General sources
Variant: In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
“If even a single hair of my beard learns my secret, I will cut my beard from the root.”
Source: Freely, John (The Grand Turk)
Teacher
“We do not learn from experience… we learn from reflecting on experience.”
“He who does nothing makes no mistakes; he who makes no mistakes learns nothing.”
Teacher
Teacher
“The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.”
“I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it.”
“Learning to love yourself, is the greatest love all”
Source: Whitney the Greatest Hits
“Maybe it's not too late to learn how to love and forget how to hate.”
Source: Ozzy Osbourne - Blizzard of Ozz
“School, I never truly got the knack of. I could never focus on things I didn't want to learn.”
http://www.flixster.com/actor/leonardo-di-caprio/leonardo-dicaprio-quotes
“We learn from history that we do not learn from history.”
“Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.”
The Scouter http://www.thedump.scoutscan.com/outlook.html (January, 1912)
"Sign of the Times", written by Harry Styles, Jeff Bhasker, Mitch Rowland, Ryan Nasci, Alex Salibian, Tyler Johnson
Lyrics, Harry Styles (2017)
“Learn in order to remove that veil of fear before your eyes.”
The Long Loneliness (1952), p. 286
Source: The Long Loneliness: The Autobiography of the Legendary Catholic Social Activist
“I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.”
Source: Revolutionary Petunias
“I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship.”
Amy, in Ch. 44 : My Lord and Lady
Variant: I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.
Source: Little Women (1868)
Variant: If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, then, you are an excellent leader.
Maryam Mirzakhani press conference after winning Field's Medal | august 2014
Die neuesten Arbeiten des Spartacus und Philo in dem Illuminaten-Orden (1794) pp. 9-10.
“I win because I learned years ago that scared money always loses. I never care, so I win.”
Popcorn in Paradise (1980)
" Brazil rejects Bush move on climate change talks http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/jun/04/brazil.usa" in: The Guardian, May 31, 2007.
“Life's not about waiting for the storm to pass… it's about learning to dance in the rain. ”
“I'm reflective only in the sense that I learn to move forward. I reflect with a purpose.”
Bhaskara I, quoted in: J J O'Connor and E F Robertson "Aryabhata the Elder".
Chap. 8 : Change Your Circumstances by Changing Your Attitude
The Laws of Human Nature (2018)
“Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain.”
“I have never met a man so ignorant that I could not learn something from him.”
As quoted in The Story of Civilization : The Age of Reason Begins, 1558-1648 (1935) by Will Durant, p. 605
Attributed
“All men should strive to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.”
"The Shore and the Sea", Further Fables for Our Time (first publication, 1956)
From Fables for Our Time and Further Fables for Our Time
Attributed to Plato in Confidence : How to Succeed at Being Yourself (1987) by Alan Loy McGinnis, this is probably a paraphrase of a statement which occurs in Letter of Advice to a Young Gentleman Leaving the University Concerning His Behaviour and Conversation in the World (1907) by Richard Lindgard: "Take heed of playing often or deep at Dice and Games of Chance, for that is more chargeable than the seven deadly sins; yet you may allow yourself a certain easie Sum to spend at Play, to gratifie Friends, and pass over the Winter Nights, and that will make you indifferent for the Event. If you would read a man’s Disposition, see him Game; you will then learn more of him in one hour, than in seven Years Conversation, and little Wagers will try him as soon as great Stakes, for then he is off his Guard."
Variants:
You can learn more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.
Attributed to Plato in Food Is the Frosting-Company Is the Cake (2007) by Maggie Marshall
You learn more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.
Attributed to Plato by former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, as quoted in "Aspiring philosopher Palin quotes 'Plato'" (9 July 2009) http://thinkprogress.org/2009/07/09/palin-plato/
Misattributed
Quoted in The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks, by Jeanne Theoharis (2013)
From 1999 interview.
Noted in the October 2003 BBC News profile of Ebadi. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3181992.stm (retrieved Oct. 15, 2008)
Stobaeus, iv. 29a. 19
Quoted by Stobaeus
http://www.popmonk.com/actors/leonardo-dicaprio/quotes-leonardo-dicaprio.htm
Je ne sais point de plus grande finesse pour parvenir à aimer que d'aimer, comme on apprend à étudier en étudiant, à parler en parlant, à travailler en travaillant.
Francis de Sales, quoted in Vie de saint François de Sales, évèque et prince de Genève by André Jean Marie Hamon (Librairie Victor Lecoffre, Paris, 1896), Vol. II, Book VII, Ch. V: Son amour pour Dieu
Variant of sourced quotation: Comme on apprend à étudier en étudiant, à jouer du luth en jouant, à nager en nageant; aussi apprend-on à aimer Dieu et le prochain en l'aimant. — Francis de Sales, quoted in Jean-Pierre Camus, "L'esprit du bienheureux saint François de Sales" (1641), Part I, Section 31; published in Oeuvres complètes de saint François de Sales, ed. Jean-Irénée Depéry (Berche et Tralin, Paris, 1875), Vol. I
Misattributed
usopen.org http://www.usopen.org/en_US/news/interviews/2014-08-30/201408301409438446669.html
Source: 1980s, That Benediction is Where You Are (1985), p. 18
Context: From childhood we are trained to have problems. When we are sent to school, we have to learn how to write, how to read, and all the rest of it. How to write becomes a problem to the child. Please follow this carefully. Mathematics becomes a problem, history becomes a problem, as does chemistry. So the child is educated, from childhood, to live with problems — the problem of God, problem of a dozen things. So our brains are conditioned, trained, educated to live with problems. From childhood we have done this. What happens when a brain is educated in problems? It can never solve problems; it can only create more problems. When a brain that is trained to have problems, and to live with problems, solves one problem, in the very solution of that problem, it creates more problems. From childhood we are trained, educated to live with problems and, therefore, being centred in problems, we can never solve any problem completely. It is only the free brain that is not conditioned to problems that can solve problems. It is one of our constant burdens to have problems all the time. Therefore our brains are never quiet, free to observe, to look. So we are asking: Is it possible not to have a single problem but to face problems? But to understand those problems, and to totally resolve them, the brain must be free.
Quoted in Philosophy of Science Vol. 37 (1934), p. 157, and in The Truth of Science : Physical Theories and Reality (1997) by Roger Gerhard Newton, p. 176
Context: What is it that we humans depend on? We depend on our words... Our task is to communicate experience and ideas to others. We must strive continually to extend the scope of our description, but in such a way that our messages do not thereby lose their objective or unambiguous character … We are suspended in language in such a way that we cannot say what is up and what is down. The word "reality" is also a word, a word which we must learn to use correctly.
“They have learned nothing, and forgotten nothing.”
and variations
Recognized since the 19th century as a borrowing, possibly used by Talleyrand, from a 1796 letter to Mallet du Pan by French naval officer Charles Louis Etienne, Chevalier de Panat: Personne n'est corrigé; personne n'a su ni rien oublier ni rien apprendre. "Nobody has been corrected; no one has known to forget, nor yet to learn anything."
Sources: Craufurd Tate Ramage Ll.D.Beautiful thoughts from French and Italian authors, E. Howell (1866)
Misattributed
“The correct lesson to learn from surprises: the world is surprising.”
As quoted in " Elisabeth Kübler-Ross: Messenger of Love https://books.google.com/books?id=3esDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA2&lpg=PA2&dq=%22Yoga+Journal%22+Kronisch&source=bl&ots=B895e3lzeI&sig=7V4uALc6CTiPrF02-cV8AAzsgbw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjM1enasPLSAhWs6oMKHbpyAbQQ6AEIJjAA#v=onepage&q=%22Elisabeth%20Kubler-Ross%22&f=false" by Lennie Kronisch in Yoga Journal, Issue 11, November-December 1976, pp. 18-20
Context: Learn to get in touch with silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences; all events are blessings given to us to learn from. There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of silence right in your room, your garden or even your bathtub.
“Children learn best when they like their teacher and they think their teacher likes them.”
Source: Hold On to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers
“No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.”