
„Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.“
— Aristotle Classical Greek philosopher, student of Plato and founder of Western philosophy -384 - -321 BC
A collection of quotes on the topic of learning, can, doing, use.
„Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.“
— Aristotle Classical Greek philosopher, student of Plato and founder of Western philosophy -384 - -321 BC
„In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life — It goes on.“
— Robert Frost American poet 1874 - 1963
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.
„To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.“
— Marilyn vos Savant US American magazine columnist, author and lecturer 1946
As quoted in Courage: the heart and spirit of every woman : reclaiming the forgotten virtue (2001) by Sandra Ford Walston
„I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship.“
— Louisa May Alcott, book Little Women
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)
„Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.“
— Albert Einstein German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity 1879 - 1955
„I have never met a man so ignorant that I could not learn something from him.“
— Galileo Galilei Italian mathematician, physicist, philosopher and astronomer 1564 - 1642
As quoted in The Story of Civilization : The Age of Reason Begins, 1558-1648 (1935) by Will Durant, p. 605
Attributed
„Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.“
— Pablo Picasso Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer 1881 - 1973
„All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.“
— Ralph Waldo Emerson American philosopher, essayist, and poet 1803 - 1882
„I have learned that to be with those I like is enough“
— Walt Whitman American poet, essayist and journalist 1819 - 1892
„No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.“
— Peter F. Drucker American business consultant 1909 - 2005
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— Sukavich Rangsitpol Thai politician 1935
http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0012/001221/122102Eo.pdf Page53-56
Education for All People and Education for Life
— Sukavich Rangsitpol Thai politician 1935
The Reason and the objective of Education Reform
— Sukavich Rangsitpol Thai politician 1935
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“
— Sukavich Rangsitpol Thai politician 1935
Education for All People and Education for Life
„Learn to pay yourself first, you'll never be broke“
— Cornelius Keagon Liberian humanitarian aid worker 1996
— Charles Bukowski American writer 1920 - 1994
"The Meaning of Life: The Big Picture", Life Magazine (December 1988)
Interviews
„I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it.“
— Vincent Van Gogh Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890) 1853 - 1890
„The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.“
— Carl R. Rogers American psychologist 1902 - 1987
„We do not learn from experience… we learn from reflecting on experience.“
— John Dewey American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer 1859 - 1952
„Please read my diary, look through my things and figure me out.“
— Kurt Cobain, book Journals
Source: Journals
— Shams-i Tabrizi 1185-1248, spiritual instructor of Mewlānā Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Balkhi. 1185 - 1248
„He who does nothing makes no mistakes; he who makes no mistakes learns nothing.“
— Luca Pacioli Italian father of accounting 1445 - 1517
— Paramahansa Yogananda Yogi, a guru of Kriya Yoga and founder of Self-Realization Fellowship 1893 - 1952
„We learn from history that we do not learn from history.“
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel German philosopher 1770 - 1831
— Robert Baden-Powell lieutenant-general in the British Army, writer, founder and Chief Scout of the Scout Movement 1857 - 1941
The Scouter http://www.thedump.scoutscan.com/outlook.html (January, 1912)
„School, I never truly got the knack of. I could never focus on things I didn't want to learn.“
— Leonardo DiCaprio American actor and film producer 1974
http://www.flixster.com/actor/leonardo-di-caprio/leonardo-dicaprio-quotes
„The learning must belong to the learners and not to the teachers.“
— Sukavich Rangsitpol Thai politician 1935
The Learner
„Learning to love yourself, is the greatest love all“
— Whitney Houston American singer, actress, model, and record producer 1963 - 2012
Source: Whitney the Greatest Hits
„Maybe it's not too late to learn how to love and forget how to hate.“
— Ozzy Osbourne English heavy metal vocalist and songwriter 1948
Source: Ozzy Osbourne - Blizzard of Ozz
— Maryam Mirzakhani Iranian mathematician 1977 - 2017
Maryam Mirzakhani press conference after winning Field's Medal | august 2014
— Adam Weishaupt German philosopher and founder of the Order of Illuminati 1748 - 1830
Die neuesten Arbeiten des Spartacus und Philo in dem Illuminaten-Orden (1794) pp. 9-10.
— Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva Brazilian politician, 35th president of Brazil 1945
" 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.
— Dorothy Day Social activist 1897 - 1980
The Long Loneliness (1952), p. 286
Source: The Long Loneliness: The Autobiography of the Legendary Catholic Social Activist
— Harry Styles English singer, songwriter, and actor 1994
"Sign of the Times", written by Harry Styles, Jeff Bhasker, Mitch Rowland, Ryan Nasci, Alex Salibian, Tyler Johnson
Lyrics, Harry Styles (2017)
— Serena Williams American tennis player 1981
usopen.org http://www.usopen.org/en_US/news/interviews/2014-08-30/201408301409438446669.html
— Jiddu Krishnamurti Indian spiritual philosopher 1895 - 1986
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.
„They have learned nothing, and forgotten nothing.“
— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord French diplomat 1754 - 1838
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
„I'm reflective only in the sense that I learn to move forward. I reflect with a purpose.“
— Kobe Bryant American basketball player 1978 - 2020
— Sukavich Rangsitpol Thai politician 1935
Teacher
— Aryabhata Indian mathematician-astronomer 476 - 550
Bhaskara I, quoted in: J J O'Connor and E F Robertson "Aryabhata the Elder".
„We learn of great things by little experiences.“
— Bram Stoker, book The Jewel of Seven Stars
Source: The Jewel of Seven Stars
„I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.“
— Alice Walker American author and activist 1944
Source: Revolutionary Petunias
„But he who neither thinks for himself nor learns from others, is a failure as a man.“
— Hesiod Greek poet
Source: Works and Days and Theogony
„if you learn to hate one or two persons… you'll soon hate millions of people.“
— Jerry Spinelli, book Love, Stargirl
Source: Love, Stargirl
— Booker T. Washington African-American educator, author, orator, and advisor 1856 - 1915
Source: 1910s, My Larger Education, Being Chapters from My Experience (1911), Ch. V: The Intellectuals and the Boston Mob (pg. 118)
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, book Lectures on the Philosophy of History
Introduction, as translated by H. B. Nisbet (1975)
Variant translation: What experience and history teach is this — that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.
Pragmatical (didactic) reflections, though in their nature decidedly abstract, are truly and indefeasibly of the Present, and quicken the annals of the dead Past with the life of to-day. Whether, indeed, such reflections are truly interesting and enlivening, depends on the writer's own spirit. Moral reflections must here be specially noticed, the moral teaching expected from history; which latter has not unfrequently been treated with a direct view to the former. It may be allowed that examples of virtue elevate the soul, and are applicable in the moral instruction of children for impressing excellence upon their minds. But the destinies of peoples and states, their interests, relations, and the complicated tissue of their affairs, present quite another field. Rulers, Statesmen, Nations, are wont to be emphatically commended to the teaching which experience offers in history. But what experience and history teach is this, that peoples and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it. Each period is involved in such peculiar circumstances, exhibits a condition of things so strictly idiosyncratic, that its conduct must be regulated by considerations connected with itself, and itself alone. Amid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no help. It is useless to revert to similar circumstances in the Past. The pallid shades of memory struggle in vain with the life and freedom of the Present.
Lectures on the History of History Vol 1 p. 6 John Sibree translation (1857), 1914
Lectures on the Philosophy of History (1832), Volume 1
— Dolly Parton American singer-songwriter and actress 1946
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.
„All men should strive to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.“
— James Thurber American cartoonist, author, journalist, playwright 1894 - 1961
"The Shore and the Sea", Further Fables for Our Time (first publication, 1956)
From Fables for Our Time and Further Fables for Our Time
„Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself.“
— Groucho Marx American comedian 1890 - 1977
— Clair Cameron Patterson American chemist and geochemist 1922 - 1995
In a Interview With Shirley K. Cohen http://oralhistories.library.caltech.edu/32/1/OH_Patterson.pdf
— Shirin Ebadi Iranian lawyer, human rights activist, and Nobel Peace Prize recipient 1947
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)
„If even a single hair of my beard learns my secret, I will cut my beard from the root.“
— Mehmed II Ottoman sultan 1432 - 1481
Source: Freely, John (The Grand Turk)
— Diogenes of Sinope ancient Greek philosopher, one of the founders of the Cynic philosophy -404 - -322 BC
Stobaeus, iv. 29a. 19
Quoted by Stobaeus
— Leonardo DiCaprio American actor and film producer 1974
http://www.popmonk.com/actors/leonardo-dicaprio/quotes-leonardo-dicaprio.htm
„Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much;
Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.“
Source: The Task (1785), Book VI, Winter Walk at Noon, Line 92.
Context: Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass,
The mere materials with which wisdom builds,
Till smoothed and squared and fitted to its place,
Does but encumber whom it seems to enrich.
Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much;
Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.
Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
— Sukavich Rangsitpol Thai politician 1935
Teacher
— Elisabeth Kübler-Ross American psychiatrist 1926 - 2004
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.
— Jimmy Carter American politician, 39th president of the United States (in office from 1977 to 1981) 1924
Source: Through the Year with Jimmy Carter: 366 Daily Meditations from the 39th President
„Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.“
— Yves Saint Laurent fashion designer 1936 - 2008
„Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.“
— Ayn Rand Russian-American novelist and philosopher 1905 - 1982
— Vladimir Lenin Russian politician, led the October Revolution 1870 - 1924
Source: The Military Programme of the Proletarian Revolution
„What I learned on my own I still remember“
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb, book The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
Source: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
— Bell Hooks American author, feminist, and social activist 1952
Source: Communion: The Female Search for Love
„From the errors of other nations, let us learn wisdom“
— Thomas Paine, book Common Sense
Source: Common Sense
— Carlos Castaneda Peruvian-American author 1925 - 1998
— Stephen Hawking British theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author 1942 - 2018
British Telecom advertisement (1993), part of which was used in Pink Floyd's Keep Talking (1994) and Talkin' Hawkin'<nowiki/> (2014)
Context: For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination. We learned to talk and we learned to listen. Speech has allowed the communication of ideas, enabling human beings to work together to build the impossible. Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking, and its greatest failures by not talking. It doesn't have to be like this. Our greatest hopes could become reality in the future. With the technology at our disposal, the possibilities are unbounded. All we need to do is make sure we keep talking.
„I am not wise, but I can always learn.“
— Tamora Pierce, The Woman Who Rides Like a Man
Source: The Woman Who Rides Like a Man
„To learn to succeed, you must first learn to fail.“
— Michael Jordan American retired professional basketball player and businessman 1963
„I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.“
— Frida Kahlo Mexican painter 1907 - 1954
Quote in a letter to Ella Wolfe, "Wednesday 13," 1938, as cited in Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo by Hayden Herrera (1983) ISBN 0-06-091127-1 , p. 197. In a footnote (p.467), Herrera writes that Kahlo had heard this joke from her friend, the poet José Frías.
1925 - 1945
Variant: I tried to drown my sorrows but the bastards learned how to swim.
„The point was to learn what it was we feared more: being misunderstood or being betrayed.“
— Adam Levine singer, songwriter, actor, and record producer from the United States 1979
Source: The Instructions