Quotes about learning

A collection of quotes on the topic of learning, can, doing, use.

Best quotes about learning

„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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„To achieve this, we have to distinctively promote continuing and lifelong education, the form of education which is responsive to individual needs and preferences. With educational facilities and a variety of educational programs available, people can make use of the learning centre as a place to acquire technical skills or knowledge adaptive to their work and daily life activities.“

— Sukavich Rangsitpol Thai politician 1935

http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0012/001221/122102Eo.pdf Page53-56
Education for All People and Education for Life

Life, People, Education, Knowledge

„The objective of education reform is to creat learning individual, organization, and society. An educated person or the authentic learning outcome should possess the following abilities and characteristics which are based on Thai cultural heritage and appropriate level of education: good physical and mental health, critical thinking, intellectual inquisitiveness, professionalism, sense of responsibility, honesty, selfsacrifice, perseverance, team spirit, adherence to democracy, and love for King, Country and Religion.“

— Sukavich Rangsitpol Thai politician 1935

The Reason and the objective of Education Reform

Love, Health, Education, Religion

„With regard to the learning society, as I mentioned earlier, optimistically, people from all walks of life should be able to have equal access to education according to their needs and potentials.“

— Sukavich Rangsitpol Thai politician 1935

Education for All People and Education for Life

Life, People, Education

„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

World, Personality

„Learn to pay yourself first, you'll never be broke“

— Cornelius Keagon Liberian humanitarian aid worker 1996

„I really am… shinobi trash. But the one thing I still learned is this. That void is something that everyone helps you fill. Just because you face adversity and hardships, is no reason to give up on this world. A person willing to throw away all those memories… of their friends and comrades, will never find peace of mind. Resorting to something like that isn't going to bury that hole. If you persevere and endure, someone will be there to support you!“

— Hatake Kakashi, book Naruto

World, Peace, Support, Memory

„Education is the result of self-learning, being taught by one or more people. Learning is the key word here. Schools, colleges and universities only divide you into CLASSES according to your level of understanding.“

— Mwanandeke Kindembo 1996

People, Universe, Education, School

„For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stonewritten. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command or faith a dictum. I am my own God. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.“

— Charles Bukowski American writer 1920 - 1994

"The Meaning of Life: The Big Picture", Life Magazine (December 1988)
Interviews

Love, Death, God, War

„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

„I had a dream
I got everything I wanted
But when I wake up, I see
You with me

And you say
As long as I'm here
No one can hurt you
Don't wanna lie here
But you can learn to
If I could change the way that you see yourself
You wouldn't wonder why you hear
"They don't deserve you"“

— Billie Eilish American singer-songwriter 2001

"everything i wanted"
Singles (2017 - )

Hurt, Dreams, Lie, Way

„The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.“

— Carl R. Rogers American psychologist 1902 - 1987

Education, Change, Personality

„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

Reading

„We can only learn and advance with contradictions.
The faithful inside should meet the doubtful. The doubtful should meet the faithful. Human slowly advances and becomes mature when he accepts his contradictions.“

— Shams-i Tabrizi 1185-1248, spiritual instructor of Mewlānā Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Balkhi. 1185 - 1248

Faith

„He who does nothing makes no mistakes; he who makes no mistakes learns nothing.“

— Luca Pacioli Italian father of accounting 1445 - 1517

„There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.“

— Paramahansa Yogananda Yogi, a guru of Kriya Yoga and founder of Self-Realization Fellowship 1893 - 1952

Thinking, Heart, Friendship, For Friend

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

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel German philosopher 1770 - 1831

History

„The secret of sound education is to get each pupil to learn for himself, instead of instructing him by driving knowledge into him on a stereotyped system.“

— 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)

Secret, Education, Knowledge

„All I want to tell young people is that you're not going to be anything in life unless you learn to commit to a goal. You have to reach deep within yourself to see if you are willing to make the sacrifices.“

— Louis Zamperini Italian-American middle distance runner 1917 - 2014

Source: Devil at My Heels

Life, People

„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

School

„Once you know what it is in life that you want to do, then the world basically becomes your library. Everything you view, you can view from that perspective, which makes everything a learning asset for you.“

— Kobe Bryant American basketball player 1978 - 2020

World, Life, Making love

„Constructive process is a process of development and learning is a process of reconstruction of nature.“

— Sukavich Rangsitpol Thai politician 1935

Learning

Nature

„The learning must belong to the learners and not to the teachers.“

— Sukavich Rangsitpol Thai politician 1935

The Learner

Teachers

„The learner has to realize that he or she is the one who sets the objective, the learning tasks and the stage for success.“

— Sukavich Rangsitpol Thai politician 1935

The Learner

Success

„In fostering a sense of success, teachers have to be responsive to the learners and create several self-assessment activities in learning.“

— Sukavich Rangsitpol Thai politician 1935

Teacher

Success, Teachers, Self-confidence, Sense

„The boy never cried again, and he never forgot what he'd learned: that to love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be the one destroyed.“

— Cassandra Clare, book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

Love, Boy

„The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.“

— Alvin Toffler American writer 1928 - 2016

Reading

„Where is the book in which the teacher can read about what teaching is? The children themselves are this book. We should not learn to teach out of any book other than the one lying open before us and consisting of the children themselves.“

— Rudolf Steiner Austrian esotericist 1861 - 1925

Source: Rhythms of Learning

Children, Books, Lying, Teachers

„Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint.“

— Pablo Picasso Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer 1881 - 1973

Color, Singing, Painting

„The winds that sometimes take something we love, are the same that bring us something we learn to love. Therefore we should not cry about something that was taken from us, but, yes, love what we have been given. Because what is really ours is never gone forever.“

— Bob Marley Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician 1945 - 1981

Love, Cry

„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

Love

„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

Love, Hate, Forgetting

„I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.“

— Marilyn Monroe American actress, model, and singer 1926 - 1962

People, Change

„I think it's rarely about what you actually learn in class it's mostly about things that you stay motivated to go and continue to do on your own.“

— Maryam Mirzakhani Iranian mathematician 1977 - 2017

Maryam Mirzakhani press conference after winning Field's Medal | august 2014

Motivation, Thinking

„Should you seek might, power, false honor, excess — seek that we would work for you to provide your temporal advantages — we will bring you as close to the throne as you wish, and then turn you over to the consequences of your folly, but our inner sanctuary remains closed to such. But should you want to learn wisdom — want to learn to make mankind more clever, better, free and happy — then be thrice welcomed by us.“

— 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.

Wisdom, Falseness, Happiness

„A long time ago I learned not to put the blame for backwardness in Brazil on the US. We have to blame ourselves. Our backwardness is caused by an elite which for a century didn't think about the majority and subordinated itself to foreign interests.“

— 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.

Thinking, Time

„Serious tweet: we all must learn to be happy with being alone; that is when things begin to change.“

— Tyler Joseph American singer-songwriter and record producer 1988

Change, Happiness

„We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community.“

— Dorothy Day Social activist 1897 - 1980

The Long Loneliness (1952), p. 286
Source: The Long Loneliness: The Autobiography of the Legendary Catholic Social Activist

Love, Communication, Loneliness

„As we tell stories about the lives of others, we learn how to imagine what another creature might feel in response to various events. At the same time, we identify with the other creature and learn something about ourselves.“

— Martha C. Nussbaum American philosopher 1947

Feeling, Imagination, Time

„Reverence the highest, have patience with the lowest. Let this day's performance of the meanest duty be thy religion. Are the stars too distant, pick up the pebble that lies at thy feet, and from it learn the all.“

— Margaret Fuller American feminist, poet, author, and activist 1810 - 1850

Religion, Star, Distant, Patience

„Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results.“

— John Dewey American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer 1859 - 1952

Nature, Thinking

„Yes I was burned but I called it a lesson learned. Mistake overturned so I call it a lesson learned. My soul has returned so I call it a lesson learned… another lesson learned“

— Alicia Keys American singer-songwriter, pianist, and actress 1981

Soul

„We never learn, we been here before
Why are we always stuck and running from
The bullets?
The bullets?“

— 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)

„Every day, you know, you learn something new about someone. I think that's what life is about, it's about learning something new every day. A partner for me that will be lifetime. She's just a great individual and incredibly powerful woman.“

— Serena Williams American tennis player 1981

usopen.org http://www.usopen.org/en_US/news/interviews/2014-08-30/201408301409438446669.html

Life, Thinking

„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.“

— 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.

School, Problem, Reading, Childhood

„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

Sense

„Teachers also say that teaching for learning how-to-learn-learn will consume a lot of time. It will be difficult to cover all the content specified by the curriculum if learning uses up too much time on hands-on activities. The less-is-more alternative has not been considered as a possible solution at all in educational reforms where only expanding will bring about progress and development is more. Now is an appropriate time for educators to come down to the heart of educational matters or the learning methods to achieve the less-is-more alternative in all educational reforms.“

— Sukavich Rangsitpol Thai politician 1935

Teacher

Time, Heart, Teachers, Education

„He is the master who, after reaching the furthest shores and plumbing the inmost depths of the sea of ultimate knowledge of mathematics, kinematics and spherics, handed over the three sciences to the learned world.“

— Aryabhata Indian mathematician-astronomer 476 - 550

Bhaskara I, quoted in: J J O'Connor and E F Robertson "Aryabhata the Elder".

Sea, Knowledge, Mathematics, World

„The dictionary is the holy book of the geniuses. It's the only way that you can learn new word(s) daily.“

— Mwanandeke Kindembo 1996

Books, Way

„The mother of all the skills is to learn the art of paying attention—Remembering every step you make or anything that’s around you.“

— Mwanandeke Kindembo 1996

Art

„I learned the real meaning of love. Love is absolute loyalty. People fade, looks fade, but loyalty never fades. You can depend so much on certain people, you can set your watch by them. And that's love, even if it doesn't seem very exciting.“

— Sylvester Stallone American actor, screenwriter, and film director 1946

Love, People, Dependency, Loyalty

„We learn of great things by little experiences.“

— Bram Stoker, book The Jewel of Seven Stars

Source: The Jewel of Seven Stars

„Everything that is past is either a learning experience to grow on, a beautiful memory to reflect on, or a motivating factor to act upon.“

— Denis Waitley American writer 1933

Beauty, Motivation, Memory, Past

„We learned not to meet anymore,
We don't raise our eyes to one another,
But we ourselves won't guarantee
What could happen to us in an hour.“

— Anna Akhmatova Russian modernist poet 1889 - 1966

Source: The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova

„In school we learn that mistakes are bad, and we are punished for making them. Yet, if you look at the way humans are designed to learn, we learn by making mistakes. We learn to walk by falling down. If we never fell down, we would never walk.“

— Robert T. Kiyosaki, book Rich Dad Poor Dad

Source: Rich Dad, Poor Dad

School, Way

„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

Love, Heart, love, Relationship

„We come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.“

— Angelina Jolie American actress, film director, and screenwriter 1975

Love, Personality, Perfection, Wise

„I was not proud of what I had learned but I never doubted that it was worth knowing.“

— Hunter S. Thompson, The Rum Diary

Source: The Rum Diary

„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

Failure, Thinking

„What I had to face, the very bitter lesson that everyone who wants to write has got to learn, was that a thing may in itself be the finest piece of writing one has ever done, and yet have absolutely no place in the manuscript one hopes to publish.“

— Thomas Wolfe American writer 1900 - 1938

Hope

„if you learn to hate one or two persons… you'll soon hate millions of people.“

— Jerry Spinelli, book Love, Stargirl

Source: Love, Stargirl

Hate, People, Personality

„Did you hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete? Proving nature's laws wrong, it learned to walk without having feet. Funny, it seems to by keeping it's dreams; it learned to breathe fresh air. Long live the rose that grew from concrete when no one else even cared.“

— Tupac Shakur, book The Rose That Grew from Concrete

Source: The Rose That Grew from Concrete

Law, Dreams, Nature, Beauty

„There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.“

— 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)

People, Business

„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.“

— 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

History

„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.“

— 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.

Dreams, For women, Leadership

„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

Men

„Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself.“

— Groucho Marx American comedian 1890 - 1977

„I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.“

— Rosa Parks African-American civil rights activist 1913 - 2005

Quiet Strength (2000)

Fear, Inspirational, Wise, For women

„…as I grew up, we spent a lot of time learning things about the world that most youngsters in cities don’t learn these days.“

— 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

World, Time

„Any person who pursues human rights in Iran must live with fear from birth to death, but I have learned to overcome my fear.“

— 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)

Death, Fear, Birth, Personality

„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)

Secret

„The noblest people are those despising wealth, learning, pleasure and life; esteeming above them poverty, ignorance, hardship and death.“

— Diogenes of Sinope ancient Greek philosopher, one of the founders of the Cynic philosophy -404 - -322 BC

Stobaeus, iv. 29a. 19
Quoted by Stobaeus

Life, Death, People, Pleasure

„You learn after a while that it's not getting your face recognised that's the payoff. It's having your film remembered.“

— 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.“

— William Cowper, The Task

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.

Wisdom, Knowledge

„Teachers should be able to help learners to efficiently communicate to other numerical ideas and to make connection with real-life problems in the areas chosen for their eventual career. Training only on subject matter is definitely not going to bring about this expertise. There must be more emphasis on coaching and facilitating techniques. In their normal practices, teachers must see very clearly where each individual learner stands on the learning continuum of that particular development, what problems and difficulties he or she is going to face and what lies ahead on that learning continuum to be walked by the learner. Teachers should be trained to be a master of how to help each and every learn to walk through the learning task. Going through the learning task is a necessary and essential aspect of teacher training but it is not sufficient to make them good and effective teachers.“

— Sukavich Rangsitpol Thai politician 1935

Teacher

Help, Communication, Teachers, Problem

„I wanted no part of politics. And I wasn't in Berlin to compete against any one athlete. The purpose of the Olympics, anyway, was to do your best. As I'd learned long ago… the only victory that counts is the one over yourself.“

— Jesse Owens American track and field athlete 1913 - 1980

Jesse Owens, Champion Athlete (1990)

Victory, Parting

„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.“

— 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.

Life, Silence

„Each of us has been made “a little lower than the angels.” What an incomprehensible compliment! But it’s not only a compliment; it’s also a responsibility, for our special status equalizes us with other people in the eyes of God. The Lord has exalted not only me or some special group; God has exalted everyone. It’s the people of Burkina Faso and Niger and Guyana and Haiti. It’s people who never learned to read and write or who live on fifty cents a day. All human beings have been made a little lower than the angels, and we have a responsibility to treat them accordingly.“

— 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

God, People, Angels, Reading

„You see, some things I can teach you. Some you learn from books. But there are things that, well, you have to see and feel.“

— Khaled Hosseini, book A Thousand Splendid Suns

Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns

Books, Feeling

„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

Fight, Happiness, Happy

„The capacity to learn is a gift; The ability to learn is a skill; The
willingness to learn is a choice.“

— Brian Herbert, book House Harkonnen

Source: House Harkonnen

Motivational, Success, Funny, Deep

„An oppressed class which does not strive to learn to use arms, to acquire arms, only deserves to be treated like slaves. We cannot, unless we have become bourgeois pacifists or opportunists, forget that we are living in a class society from which there is no way out, nor can there be, save through the class struggle. In every class society, whether based on slavery, serfdom, or, as at present, wage-labor, the oppressor class is always armed. Not only the modern standing army, but even the modern militia - and even in the most democratic bourgeois republics, Switzerland, for instance - represent the bourgeoisie armed against the proletariat. That is such an elementary truth that it is hardly necessary to dwell upon it. Suffice it to point to the use of troops against strikers in all capitalist countries.
A bourgeoisie armed against the proletariat is one of the biggest fundamental and cardinal facts of modern capitalist society. And in face of this fact, revolutionary Social-Democrats are urged to “demand” “disarmament”! That is tantamount of complete abandonment of the class-struggle point of view, to renunciation of all thought of revolution. Our slogan must be: arming of the proletariat to defeat, expropriate and disarm the bourgeoisie. These are the only tactics possible for a revolutionary class, tactics that follow logically from, and are dictated by, the whole objective development of capitalist militarism. Only after the proletariat has disarmed the bourgeoisie will it be able, without betraying its world-historic mission, to consign all armaments to the scrap-heap. And the proletariat will undoubtedly do this, but only when this condition has been fulfilled, certainly not before.“

— Vladimir Lenin Russian politician, led the October Revolution 1870 - 1924

Source: The Military Programme of the Proletarian Revolution

Truth, World, Way, Country

„I'm tired of living unable to love anyone. I don't have a single friend - not one. And, worst of all, I can't even love myself. Why is that? Why can't I love myself? It's because I can't love anyone else. A person learns how to love himself through the simple acts of loving and being loved by someone else. Do you understand what I am saying? A person who is incapable of loving another cannot properly love himself.“

— Haruki Murakami, book 1Q84

Source: 1Q84 (2009-2010)

Love, Understanding, Personality

„Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you; it means learning to respect and use your own brains and instincts; hence, grappling with hard work.“

— Adrienne Rich American poet, essayist and feminist 1929 - 2012

Thinking, For women

„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

„The one person who will never leave us, whom we will never lose, is ourself. Learning to love our female selves is where our search for love must begin.“

— Bell Hooks American author, feminist, and social activist 1952

Source: Communion: The Female Search for Love

Love, Search, Personality, For women

„Forgive but don’t forget, girl keep your head up. And when he tells you you ain’t nothing, don’t believe him. And if he can’t learn to love you, you should leave him.“

— Tupac Shakur rapper and actor 1971 - 1996

Love, Girl, Forgiveness, Forgetting

„From the errors of other nations, let us learn wisdom“

— Thomas Paine, book Common Sense

Source: Common Sense

Wisdom, Error

„As hatred is defined as intense dislike, what is wrong with inciting intense dislike of a religion, if the activities or teachings of that religion are so outrageous, irrational or abusive of human rights that they deserve to be intensely disliked?“

— Rowan Atkinson English actor, comedian, and screenwriter 1955

Religion

„Man lives only to learn. And if he learns it is because it is the nature of his lot, for good or bad.“

— Carlos Castaneda Peruvian-American author 1925 - 1998

Nature

„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.“

— 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.

Imagination, Animals

„…I keep looking for one more teacher, only to find that fish learn from the water and birds learn from the sky.” (p.275)“

— Mark Nepo American writer 1951

Source: Facing the Lion, Being the Lion: Finding Inner Courage Where It Lives

Bird, Fish, Teachers, Water

„If man is to survive, he will have learned to take a delight in the essential differences between men and between cultures. He will learn that differences in ideas and attitudes are a delight, part of life's exciting variety, not something to fear.“

— Gene Roddenberry American television screenwriter and producer 1921 - 1991

Life, Men, Fear, Idea

„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

„Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.“

— Muhammad Ali African American boxer, philanthropist and activist 1942 - 2016

Friendship, World, School, Friendship

„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

Fear