"We can learn something new anytime we believe we can."
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 7 of 101)
Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.
"Wisdom, thoroughly learned, will never be forgotten."
"You'll have a lot more respect for a bird after you try making a nest."
"Retire into yourself as much as possible. Associate with people who are likely to improve you. Welcome those whom you are capable of improving. The process is a mutual one. People learn as they teach."
"If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience."
"The inside of a computer is as dumb as hell but it goes like mad!"
"We can learn to be whole by saying what we mean and doing what we say."
"We don't yet know, above all, what the world might be like if children were to grow up without being subjected to humiliation, if parents would respect them and take them seriously as people."
"A man's errors are his portals of discovery."
"We learn the rope of life by untying its knots."
"Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education."
"To be a teacher you must be a prophet - because you are trying to prepare people for a world thirty to fifty years into the future."
"Learn to express, not impress."
"I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them."
"He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet."
"A fool learns nothing from a wise man; but a wise man learns from a fool."
"If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it."
"My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an extent which infuriates me when I think of all I might have learned at home by myself."
"People will always try to stop you from doing the right thing if it is unconventional."
"The expert knows more and more about less and less until he knows everything about nothing."