Quotes about learning
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“The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.”

Baruch Spinoza (1632–1677) Dutch philosopher

Understanding

“Someday you're going to have to learn to separate what seems to be important from what really is important.”

George Lucas (1944) American film producer

Source: A New Hope

“It’s in the act of having to do things that you don’t want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego.”

Bell Hooks (1952) American author, feminist, and social activist

Past, Moving On

“You learn to move on without the people you love.”

Bret Easton Ellis book Lunar Park

Source: Lunar Park

Love, People

“Don't just learn from God's Word, but believe it will change your life.”

Joyce Meyer (1943) American author and speaker

Life, God, Change

“The future belongs to those who learn more skills and combine them in creative ways.”

Robert Greene book Mastery

Source: Mastery

Way, Future

“woman must not depend on the protection of man, but must learn to protect herself”

Susan Beth Pfeffer (1948) American writer

Dependency

“To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.”

Alexandre Dumas book The Count of Monte Cristo

Source: The Count of Monte Cristo

Memory

“I go to school, but I never learn what I want to know.”

Bill Watterson (1958) American comic artist

Source: The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury

School

“The trick is to learn to see with your heart, not with your eyes”

Alyson Nöel (1965) writer

Source: Cruel Summer

Heart

“It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.”

John Wooden (1910–2010) American basketball coach

For Men

“I do not teach anyone I only provide the environment in which they can learn”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

Variant: I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.

“It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.”

Louisa May Alcott book Little Women

Source: Little Women (1868), Ch. 22 : Artistic Attempts

Women, Men, People, Time

“So I learned another system: When in doubt, keep it out – out of earshot, out of the house – even if this meant, really, just keeping it in.”

Sarah Dessen book Just Listen

Source: Just Listen

Housing

“You can listen to silence, Reuven. I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and dimension all its own.”

Chaim Potok book The Chosen

Danny Saunders to Reuven Malter
Source: The Chosen (1967)

Silence

“I'd have to say no, people don't change, but they can learn to behave differently.”

Charlaine Harris book Dead Reckoning

Source: Dead Reckoning

People, Change

“But sticking to rules just because they're there does not make them right. You need to learn when the rules should be broken.”

Ilsa J. Bick (1957) American writer

Source: Ashes

“Most people learn to save themselves by artificially limiting the content of consciousness.”

Thomas Ligotti (1953) American horror author

Source: The Conspiracy Against the Human Race: A Contrivance of Horror

People

“He believed in himself, believed in his quixotic ambition, letting the failures of the previous day disappear as each new day dawned. Yesterday was not today. The past did not predict the future if he could learn from his mistakes.”

Daniel Wallace (1959) American author

Source: The Kings and Queens of Roam

Failure, Past, Future

“By instructing students how to learn, unlearn and relearn, a powerful new dimension can be added to education.”

Alvin Toffler (1928–2016) American writer

Future Shock (1970), ch. 18
Source: Powershift: Knowledge, Wealth, and Power at the Edge of the 21st Century

Education

“Chong said, 'Do yourself a favor, Morg. Next time you're staring at a girl's boobs, look up. You'll be shocked to learn it, but there's going to be a face up there. Nose, mouth, eyes. And behind the eyes is an actual person.”

Jonathan Maberry book Rot & Ruin

Source: Rot & Ruin

Girl, Time, Personality

“I'd wanted a real kiss, something to remember, but i'd long ago learned not to be picky with farewells. They weren't guaranteed or promised. You were lucky, more than blessed, if you got a goodbye at all.”

Sarah Dessen book The Truth About Forever

Variant: But I'd long ago learned not to be picky in farewells. They weren't guaranteed or promised.
You were lucky, more than blessed, if you got a good-bye at all.
Source: The Truth About Forever

Kiss

“There may be significant things to learn about people by looking at what annoys them most.”

Alain de Botton (1969) Swiss writer

Source: How Proust Can Change Your Life

People

“But really, the term “forgive and forget” doesn’t make sense to me. Forgiving does allow us to stop dwelling on an issue, which isn’t always healthy. But if we forget, we don’t learn from our mistakes. And that can be deadly.”

Meg Cabot (1967) Novelist

Source: Abandon

Forgiveness, Sense, Forgetting

“I’ve learned that waiting is the most difficult bit, and I want to get used to the feeling, knowing that you’re with me, even when you’re not by my side.”

Paulo Coelho book Eleven Minutes

Source: Eleven Minutes

Feeling, Waiting

“You will learn most things by looking, but reading gives understanding. Reading will make you free.”

Paul Rand (1914–1996) American graphic designer

Understanding, Reading

“I flip ahead in the textbook. There's an interesting chapter about acid rain. Nothing about sex. We aren't scheduled to learn about that until eleventh grade.”

Laurie Halse Anderson Speak

Source: Speak

Sex

“He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write. He is careful of what he learns, for that is what he will know.”

Annie Dillard (1945) American writer

Source: The Writing Life

Reading

“In reality, you don’t ever change the hurricane. You just learn how to stay out of its path.”

Jodi Picoult book House Rules

Source: House Rules

Reality, Change

“If only I could visit you as a foreigner goes into a new country, learn the language of you, wander past all borders into every private and secret place, I would stay forever. I would become a citizen of you.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: A Wallflower Christmas

Secret, Past, Country

“May be she’ll learn something about what death really is, which is where the pain stops and the good memories begin. Not the end of life but the end of pain.”

Stephen King book Pet Sematary

Source: Pet Sematary

Life, Death, Pain, Memory

“You are a fever I am learning to live with, and everything is happening
at the wrong end of a very long tunnel.”

Richard Siken (1967) American poet

“Suddenly, madness was everywhere, and I was determined to learn about the impact it had on the way society evolves. I've always believed society to be a fundamentally rational thing, but what if it isn't? What if it is built on insanity?”

Jon Ronson (1967) British journalist, documentary filmmaker, radio presenter and nonfiction author

Source: The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry

Way, Madness

“Learning should take place when it is needed, when the learner is interested, not according to some arbitrary, fixed schedule”

Donald A. Norman (1935) American academic

Source: Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things

“I enjoy growing older and wiser and learning from my mistakes every single day.”

Ellen DeGeneres (1958) American stand-up comedian, television host, and actress

Source: Seriously... I'm Kidding

“One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike—and yet it is the most precious thing we have.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

Letter to Hans Muehsam (9 July 1951), Einstein Archives 38-408, quoted in The Ultimate Quotable Einstein (2010) by Alice Calaprice, p. 404 http://books.google.com/books?id=G_iziBAPXtEC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA404#v=onepage&q&f=false <br class="br">1950s

Life, Reality, Science

“It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.”

Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist

On the loss of a suitcase containing work from his first two years as a writer, as quoted in With Hemingway (1984) by Arnold Samuelson

Way, Business, Thinking

“If everything is done for me… how will I ever learn?”

John Flanagan (1873–1938) Irish-American hammer thrower

Source: The Emperor of Nihon-Ja

“Some people have been unkind. If I say I want to grow as an actress, they look at my figure. If I say I want to develop, to learn my craft, they laugh. Somehow they don't expect me to be serious about my work.”

Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer

People

“Courage is like—it’s a habitus, a habit, a virtue: You get it by courageous acts. It’s like you learn to swim by swimming. You learn courage by couraging.”

Brené Brown (1965) US writer and professor

Source: The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are

Courage

“This is life. Things get taken away. You will learn to start over many times -- or you will be useless.”

Mitch Albom book The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto

Source: The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto

Life, Time

“Man's right to know, to learn, to inquire, to make bona fide errors, to investigate human emotions must, by all means, be safe, if the word FREEDOM should ever be more than an empty political slogan.”

Wilhelm Reich (1897–1957) Austrian-American psychoanalyst

Response to FDA complaint (1954)
Context: Inquiry in the realm of Basic Natural Law is outside the judicial domain of this or ANY OTHER KIND OF SOCIAL ADMINISTRATION ANYWHERE ON THIS GLOBE, IN ANY LAND, NATION, OR REGION.
Man's right to know, to learn, to inquire, to make bona fide errors, to investigate human emotions must, by all means, be safe, if the word FREEDOM should ever be more than an empty political slogan.

Error, Freedom

“If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.”

Alexandre Dumas book The Count of Monte Cristo

Source: The Count of Monte Cristo

Fools