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Learning Quotes and Sayings

Learning is like rowing upstream: not to advance is to drop back.
Chinese Proverb

I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.
Eartha Kitt

When the student is ready, the master appears.
Buddhist Proverb

Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.
Mark Twain

You learn something every day if you pay attention.
Ray LeBlond

Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
Chinese Proverb

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty.
Henry Ford

All the world is a laboratory to the inquiring mind.
Martin H. Fischer

The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.
Antisthenes

It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts.
Attribe to Harry S. Truman

A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.
Chinese Proverb

In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
Paul Eldridge

His studies were pursued but never effectually overtaken.
H.G. Wells

I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me.
Dudley Field Malone

Man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

I don’t think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
Abraham Lincoln

The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.
Mohammed

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill

Learning is like rowing upstream: not to advance is to drop back.
Chinese Proverb

The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.
Mortimer Adler

There are many things which we can afford to forget which it is yet well to learn.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.
Henry S. Haskins

I am defeated, and know it, if I meet any human being from whom I find myself unable to learn anything.
George Herbert Palmer

It is not hard to learn more. What is hard is to unlearn when you discover yourself wrong.
Martin H. Fischer

If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world has wasted a great deal of time.
Russell Hoban

You have learned something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.
H.G. Wells

I am what the librarians have made me with a little assistance from a professor of Greek and a few poets.
Bernard Keble Sandwell

Learn as much as you can while you are young, since life becomes too busy later.
Dana Stewart Scott

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
Alvin Toffler

We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.
Lloyd Alexander

You don’t understand anything until you learn it more than one way.
Marvin Minsky

The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.
John Lubbock

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegut

I find four great classes of students: The dumb who stay dumb. The dumb who become wise. The wise who go dumb. The wise who remain wise.
Martin H. Fischer

Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
Alexander Pope

Give me a fruitful error any time, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections. You can keep your sterile truth for yourself.
Vilfredo Pareto

Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.
Abbe Dimnet

People learn something every day, and a lot of times it’s that what they learned the day before was wrong.
Bill Vaughan

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