Quotes about learning (6821 quotes, page 67)

“You can only learn so much from books. You can only learn so much from education. Ultimately, it is the wisdom of God that will carry you through in the toughest situations of life.”

Ravi Zacharias (1946) Indian philosopher

Life , God , Books , Education

“If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher.”

Pema Chödron (1936) American philosopher

People , Heart , Teachers

“The teacher is the designer of the learning process a choreographer of discovery.”

William Coperthwaite (1930–2013) American yurt builder

A Handmade Life: In Search of Simplicity

Teachers

“When you learn how to die, you learn how to live.”

Mitch Albom Tuesdays with Morrie

Tuesdays with Morrie (1997)

“The man is making preparations for a year, and does not know that he will die before evening. And I remembered God's second saying, "Learn what is not given to man."”

Leo Tolstoy book What Men Live By

'What dwells in man" I already knew. Now I learnt what is not given him. It is not given to man to know his own needs.
Source: What Men Live By (1881), Ch. XI

God

“In solitude, they will learn that saying ‘No’ does not always show a lack of generosity and that saying ‘Yes’ is not always a virtue.”

Paulo Coelho book Manuscript Found in Accra

Manuscript Found in Accra (2012), Solitude

Solitude

“Either you leave your comfort zone to learn more, reinvent yourself and win or you will become invisible in a busy marketplace.”

Vladimer Botsvadze

Business

“We’ve learned how to put out the flame.”

Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America

2020, July 2020

“They learn nothing, for they’re convinced they know everything that matters.”

Sheri S. Tepper (1929–2016) American fiction writer

Source: The Margarets (2007), Chapter 24, “I Am M’urgi/On B’Yurngrad” (p. 196)

“Creativity can not be bought, studied, learned or possessed.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: (it) La creatività non si compra, non si studia, né si impara, si possiede.
Source: prevale.net

Study

“Sometimes important meetings happen by chance. Learn to appreciate time, excellent master of life.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: (it) A volte incontri importanti avvengono casualmente. Impara ad apprezzare il tempo, eccellente maestro di vita.
Source: prevale.net

Chance , Time , Life

“Growing up you don't learn to be strong, you learn to be careful.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: (it) Crescendo non impari ad essere forte, impari ad essere attento.
Source: prevale.net

Strong

“Some people there are who, being grown, forget the horrible task of learning to read. It is perhaps the greatest single effort that the human undertakes, and he must do it as a child. An adult is rarely successful in the undertaking — the reduction of experience to a set of symbols. For a thousand thousand years these humans have existed and they have only learned this trick — this magic — in the final ten thousand of the thousand thousand.”

John Steinbeck book The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights

Introduction
The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights (1976)

People , Reading , Success , Forgetting

“Nature is entirely synergetic and because your problems of representing a society ignorant of such fundamentals are greatly increased you need to pay great attention to learning how to comprehend synergy and thereafter how to educate all of humanity in the shortest time how to comprehend and usefully cope with omni-synergetic universe”

Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983) American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor and futurist

1960s, Presentation to U.S. Congressional Sub-Committee on World Game (1969)

Universe , Education , Time , Nature

“Learning is not by going to school, books is not by reading; but knowing what you went their for and understanding what you've read in those books.”

Bhad Shazzy

School , Understanding , Reading , Books

“When you need help, learn how to become your all.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Help

“If you want to love me, learn to love my faults.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Love

“The only way to have real success in science, the field I'm familiar with, is to describe the evidence very carefully without regard to the way you feel it should be. If you have a theory, you must try to explain what's good and what's bad about it equally. In science, you learn a kind of standard integrity and honesty.”

Richard Feynman (1918–1988) American theoretical physicist

Science , Success , Way , Feeling

“In reality, there is no truth in socialism, because it has never worked. Still smarting from the hard lessons of history, today's Marxist socialists have learned to swiftly bury truth and any truth-seekers, before they can become entombed themselves.”

L. K. Samuels (1951) American writer

“No Truth in Socialism: Why the ‘Crisis of Marxism’ Matters” https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2021/08/no_truth_in_socialism_why_the_crisis_of_marxism_matters.html American Thinker (Aug. 7, 2021)

History , Truth , Reality

“It is not for us that we exhort you to learn, but for yourself, because ignorance is an inability, a real disaster, because social positions and protection are no longer there as before, there is a ground for malice and even hatred.”

Leopold I of Belgium (1790–1865) German prince who became the first King of the Belgians

Leopold II, The Whole Story https://odysee.com/@BelgianCongo:3/Leopold-II-Het-Hele-Verhaal-Aflevering-1:1 King Leopold I to his son Prince Leopold II.

“It may be deeply uncomfortable to reflect on eating savvy creatures who express their emotions. My strong suspicion—which I hope will be tested as a hypothesis—is that some people will decrease their meat and fish intake as they learn more about who they are consuming.”

Barbara J. King (1956) American anthropologist and primatologist

The Inner Lives of "Food Animals" https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/the-inner-lives-of-food-animals/ (March 16, 2017)

Strong , People , Fish , Hope

“I became an MLA because I could no longer stand idly by while I learned more and more about how the previous government was hurting the people I loved. They were hurting members of my family, my community, my neighbours, my colleagues, my friends — and hurt they have been.”

Bowinn Ma (1985) Canadian politician

Bowinn Ma's Response to the September 2017 Throne Speech

Hurt , Family , People , Communication

“I’m probably more laid-back in a lot of ways. I was very type-A as a kid, and I wanted to be the best at everything. Now I’ve definitely learned that this is not the best [quality] to have. You need to be able to screw up and learn from it.”

Mary Elizabeth Winstead (1984) American actress and singer

Interview with Glamour Magazine (26 April 2017)

Way

“The purpose of time is to enable you to learn how to use time constructively. It is thus a teaching device and a means to an end. Time will cease when it is no longer useful in facilitating learning.”

Helen Schucman book A Course in Miracles

A Course in Miracles, (1976)

Time

“I have gone through ups and downs in my relatively short career. And one thing I’ve learned is a bit of a cliché, but everything does happen for a reason.”

Chloé Zhao (1982) Chinese film director, screenwriter, and film producer

“I think the biggest enemy in this country is the corruption. I think everybody will - now they learn it.”

Cui Jian (1961) Chinese rock musician of Korean descent

Interview with CNN (2012)

Thinking , Country

“No one can teach you how to compose a shot. You are only guided by an instinct. It has to come from within. I learned cinema by working on my films. The best thing was that I bought my own camera, and since I was working on the digital medium, I had the freedom to experiment, shoot more.”

Rima Das (1982) Indian Assamese film maker

SilverScreenIndia Article - Making A Zero Budget Movie: The Tale Of Assamese Filmmaker Rima Das’s ‘Village Rockstars’ - 20 November 2017 https://silverscreenindia.com/movies/features/interviews/making-a-zero-budget-movie-the-tale-of-assamese-filmmaker-rima-dass-village-rockstars/ - Archive https://web.archive.org/web/20210728183808/https://silverscreenindia.com/movies/features/interviews/making-a-zero-budget-movie-the-tale-of-assamese-filmmaker-rima-dass-village-rockstars/

Freedom

“Learn from the mistakes of others and avoid being one whose mistakes are used as lessons by others.”

Yasir Qadhi (1975) Pakistani-American preacher and imam

“I wouldn’t claim to have mastered my craft, part of the fun is that you are continually learning and reinventing yourself.”

Nick Brimble (1944) British actor

Nick Brimble Interview https://trainwreckdsociety.com/2017/07/19/nick-brimble-interview/ (July 19, 2017)

Parting

“You'll come to learn a great deal if you study the Insignificant in depth.”

Odysseas Elytis (1911–1996) Greek poet and art critic

Study

“We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.”

Aristotle Onassis (1906–1975) Greek shipping magnate

Hope , Sea , Hope

“The hardest lesson that I learned is that “rejection is protection.””

Sheri Booker American author, poet

Rejection never feels good, but as artists I think we tend to take rejection so personally. It can cause us to doubt our work or talent. However, rejection isn’t always someone saying we don’t like your work or you’re not talented. Sometimes it’s someone else recognizing that they can’t give you what you need to fly. It’s a venue saying this is not quite the right fit for you right now. That doesn’t mean that you won’t find home for your work. That doesn’t mean that venue won’t come looking for you one day. It means you have to keep working hard until you find the perfect fit and when the time is right it will work itself out.
On learning to take rejection in “Q&A Session with Award-Winning Author, Sheri Booker” https://www.huffpost.com/entry/interview-with-award-winning-author-sheri-booker_b_5684760 in HuffPost (2014 Aug 19)

“...I learned a Slow Medicine lesson: how individual medicine was. It wasn't true that one size fits all, that everyone or no one should have that treatment or this pill. Rather, the right answer had to do with style, with who you were, who the patient was.”

Victoria Sweet Physician

Slow Medicine: The Way to Healing (2017)

“I love cooking and learning more every day in cooking. I look at food as I would languages or art and my vocabulary and palate keep expanding. I continue to do pastry and have been doing savory all along and it's a beautiful marriage.”

Elizabeth Falkner (1966) American television chef

discussing her interest in both pastry and savory cooking
Justluxe Article - Interview by Sara Cardoza - Top Chef Interviews: Elizabeth Falkner https://www.justluxe.com/lifestyle/dining/feature-1844413.php - October 2012 - Archive https://web.archive.org/web/20211003105247/https://www.justluxe.com/lifestyle/dining/feature-1844413.php

Marriage , Cooking , Food , Beauty

“Education opens the way to a new life and a new world. Be brave and confident. Open all doors through knowledge, open with your willpower and the impulse of your hearts, diligence, helping each other, trusting each other, learning from each other.”

Armen Sarkissian (1953) 4th President of Armenia, Member of the Global Leadership Foundation, one of the directors of Eurasia House, phy…

"Congratulations on the Knowledge and Schooling Day" https://www.president.am/en/statements-and-messages/item/2021/09/01/President-Armen-Sarkissians-congratulatory-message-on-the-occasion-of-Knowledge-and-Schooling-Day-/ (1 September 2021)

Confidence , Help , Heart , Knowledge

“The first thing a psychologist learns is to keep her mouth shut around laymen.”

James Blish (1921–1975) American author

Source: …And All the Stars a Stage (1971; [serialized in 1960]), Chapter 13 (p. 180)

“But humans had to learn to ignore appearance. No two beings who shared common thinking processes and common goals should be truly alien to each other.”

Charles Sheffield book Summertide

Source: The Heritage Universe, Summertide (1990), Chapter 5, “Summertide Minus Thirty” (p. 61)

Thinking , Appearance