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“Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”
Douglas Adams
“You live and learn. At any rate, you live.”
Douglas Adams
“I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.”
Galileo Galilei
“Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.”
Heraclitus
“ Much learning does not teach understanding.”
Heraclitus
“We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.”
Martin Luther King
“We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.”
Aristotle Onassis
“Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before... He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.”
Kurt Vonnegut
“If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.”
Lin Yutang
“ I never learned from a man who agreed with me.”
Robert Anson Heinlein
“I never teach my pupils. I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.”
Albert Einstein
“A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.”
Mark Twain
“A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.”
Mark Twain
“Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.”
Mark Twain
“A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.”
Hippocrates
“In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.”
Bruce Lee
“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
Robert Frost
“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”
Nelson Mandela
“Learning never exhausts the mind.”
Leonardo da Vinci
“I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.”
Pablo Picasso
“While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.”
Leonardo da Vinci
“By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.”
Confucius
“He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.”
Confucius
“Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.”
Confucius
“You cannot open a book without learning something.”
Confucius
“It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.”
Norman Vincent Peale
“We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.”
Norman Vincent Peale
“A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.”
Franklin Roosevelt
“Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.”
Og Mandino