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And if my heart be scarred and burned,
The safer, I, for all I learned. Dorothy Parker, Sunset Gun: Poems
Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others? Voltaire
The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience. Chinua Achebe
Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing. Euripides
Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making. John Milton, Areopagitica, 1644
Belief gets in the way of learning. Robert A Heinlein
All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books. Jean-Paul Sartre
Her name was Hilda and she was the niece of an Anglo-Saxon king ... She championed learning for ordinary people. Professor Bettany Hughes, Divine Women III: War of the Word, BBC 2012
It is never too late to learn. Late 17th century proverb
Live and learn. Early 17th century proverb
Learn from me, if not by my precepts, at least by my example, how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspires to become greater than his nature will allow. Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, The Modern Prometheus chapter 4 p38
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle
To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others. Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
We shall never learn to feel and respect our real calling and destiny, unless we have taught ourselves to consider every thing as moonshine, compared with the education of the heart. Walter Scott
All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education. Walter Scott
The commonwealth of learning is not at this time without master-builders, whose mighty designs, in advancing the sciences, will leave lasting monuments to the admiration of posterity … in an age that produces such masters as the great Huygenius and the incomparable Mr Newton … ’tis ambition enough to be employed as an under-labourer in clearing ground a little, and removing some of the rubbish that lies in the way of knowledge. John Locke, An Essay concerning Human Understanding, 1690
No man’s knowledge here can go beyond his experience. ibid.
It is one thing to show a man that he is in error, and another to put him in possession of truth. ibid.
Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn. Benjamin Franklin
You live and learn. At any rate, you live. Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. Douglas Adams
We learn from failure, not from success! Bram Stoker, Dracula
Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books. John Lubbock
Change is the end result of all true learning. Leo Buscaglia
That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you’ve understood all your life, but in a new way. Doris Lessing
One of the greatest journeys in life is overcoming insecurity and learning to truly not give a shit. J A Konrath
Learning never exhausts the mind. Leonardo da Vinci
It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it. Jacob Bronowski, The Ascent of Man, BBC 1973
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardour and attended to with diligence. Abigail Adams
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other. The advancement of learning depends on community leadership for financial and political support and the products of that learning, in turn, are essential to the leadership’s hopes for continued progress and prosperity ... This link between leadership and learning is not only essential at the community level, it is even more indispensable in world affairs. Ignorance and misinformation can handicap the progress of a city or a company, but they can, if allowed to prevail in foreign policy, handicap this country’s security. In a world of complex and continuing problems, in a world full of frustrations and irritations, America’s leadership must be guided by the lights of learning and reason, or else those who confuse rhetoric with reality and the plausible with the possible will gain the popular ascendancy with their seemingly swift and simple solutions to every world problem. John F Kennedy, remarks prepared for Trade Mart in Dallas 22nd November 1963 but not delivered
The beautiful thing about learning is that nobody can take it away from you. B B King
All subjects are the same. I memorize notes for a test, spew it, ace it, then forget it. What makes this scary for the future of our country is that I’m in the tip-top percentile on every standardized test. I’m a model student with a very crappy attitude about learning. Megan McCafferty, Sloppy Firsts
The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn. Cicero
Wisdom ... comes not from age, but from education and learning. Anton Chekhov
These people have learned not from books, but in the fields, in the wood, on the river bank. Their teachers have been the birds themselves, when they sang to them, the sun when it left a glow of crimson behind it at setting, the very trees, and wild herbs. Anton Chekhov
There are three kinds of men. The ones that learn by readin’. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves. Will Rogers
The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne. Geoffrey Chaucer
A man, though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind. Sophocles, Antigone
There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent. Michel de Montaigne
I don't know what’s the matter with people: they don’t learn by understanding, they learn by some other way – by rote or something. Their knowledge is so fragile! Richard P Feynman