"Look about you. Take hold of the things that are here. Let them talk to you. You learn to talk to them."
Read quote
12 likes
Learning quotes
Learning
2K quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Explore further
Topics related to Learning
Browse quotes that often appear alongside learning — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.
Quote collection
Learning quotes (page 17 of 101)
Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.
"If we learned to walk and talk the way we learn to read and write, everyone would limp and stutter."
Read quote
12 likes
"most people did not care to be taught what they did not already know; it made them feel ignorant."
Read quote
12 likes
"Dive into the sea of thought, and find there pearls beyond price."
Read quote
12 likes
"She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain."
Read quote
12 likes
"You can't manage knowledge.Knowledge is between two ears and only between two ears."
Read quote
11 likes
"Cato used to assert that wise men profited more by fools than fools by wise men; for that wise men avoided the faults of fools, but that fools would not imitate the good examples of wise men."
Read quote
11 likes
"The essence of education is the education of the body."
Read quote
11 likes
"We all learn by experience, and your lesson this time is that you should never lose sight of the alternative. Sherlock Holmes speaking with Dr. Watson."
Read quote
11 likes
"Or heritage and ideals, our code and standards - the things we live by and teach our children - are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings."
Read quote
11 likes
"I praise God for you, sir: your reasons at dinner have been sharp and sententious; pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, audacious without impudency, learned without opinion, and strange with-out heresy."
Read quote
11 likes
"In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him, and in that I am his pupil."
Read quote
11 likes
"We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing."
Read quote
11 likes
""
Read quote
11 likes
"If you learn only methods, you'll be tied to your methods, but if you learn principles you can devise your own methods."
Read quote
11 likes
"When they tell you to grow up, they mean stop growing."
Read quote
11 likes
"There's a time for daring and there's a time for caution, and a wise man understands which is called for."
Read quote
11 likes
"Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two."
Read quote
11 likes
"The wise are not learned, the learned are not wise."
Read quote
11 likes
"One of the biggest lessons I've learned recently is that when you don't know what to do, you should do nothing until you figure out what to do because a lot of times you feel like you are pressed against the wall, and you've got to make a decision. You never have to do anything. Don't know what to do? Do nothing."
Read quote
11 likes