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“I keep six honest serving-men(They taught me all I knew);Their names are What & Why & When& How & Where & Who.”

Rudyard Kipling Rudyard Kipling

“You cannot teach people anything. You can only help them discover it within themselves.”

GalileoGalileo

“Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.”

Chinese ProverbChinese Proverb

“Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you, you must acquire it.”

Sudie BackSudie Back

“Learning is not compulsory - neither is survival!”

W Edward DemingW Edward Deming

“The great end of learning is not knowledge but action.”

Peter HoneyPeter Honey

“I never let my schooling interfere with my education”

Mark TwainMark Twain

“The human species is unique in its capacity for learning. To learn is to be human.”

Phil RacePhil Race

“Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked.”

Lord ChesterfieldLord Chesterfield

“Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by bad training, are a much greater misfortune.”

PlatoPlato

“Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.”

Anthony J. D'AngeloAnthony J. D'Angelo

“Learning to draw is really a matter of learning to see -- to see correctly -- and that means a good deal more than merely looking with the eye.”

Kimon Nicolaides:Kimon Nicolaides:

“The books that help you most are those which make you think the most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.”

Theodore ParkerTheodore Parker

“It is among the commonplaces of education that we often first cut off the living root and then try to replace its natural functions by artificial means. Thus we suppress the child's curiosity and then when he lacks a natural interest in learning he is offered special coaching for his scholastic difficulties.”

Alice Duer MillerAlice Duer Miller

“Till a man can judge whether they be truths or not, his understanding is but little improved, and thus men of much reading, though greatly learned, but may be little knowing.”

John LockeJohn Locke

“Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theatre.”

Gail GodwinGail Godwin

“It is in fact nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the wholly curious of inquiry. It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by

means of coercion and a sense of duty.”

Albert EinsteinAlbert Einstein

“To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.”

Marilyn vos SavantMarilyn vos Savant

“In times of change, learners inherit the earth while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.”

Eric HofferEric Hoffer

“One's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.”

Oliver Wendell HolmesOliver Wendell Holmes

“Men learn while they teach.”

SenecaSeneca

“I am always ready to learn, but I do not always like being taught.”  

ChurchillChurchill

“Man learns little from success, but much from failure.” 

Arabic ProverbArabic Proverb

“If you think Education is expensive - try ignorance.”

Derek Bok Derek Bok

“If you keep doing what you’ve always done, you’ll keep getting what you’ve always got.”

Zig ZiglerZig Zigler

“If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn’t seem so wonderful after all.”

MichelangeloMichelangelo

“Results! Why man I gotton lots of results. I know several thousand things that wont work.”

Thomas EdisonThomas Edison

“Expect people to be better than they are, It helps them to become better. But don't be disappointed when they are not; It helps them to keep trying.”

AnonymousAnonymous

“You can't teach a man anything; you can only let him find it for himself.”

GalileoGalileo

“Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; un-rewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education alone will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Learning will not; there are thousands of professional learners who do nothing.Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.”

AnonymousAnonymous

“The clever man will tell you what he knows; he may even try to explain it to you. The wise man encourages you to discover it for yourself, even although he knows it inside out. But since he seems to give you nothing, we have no need to reward him. Thus the wise have disappeared and we are left in a desolation of the clever.”

Reg RevanReg Revan

“The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.”

AnonymousAnonymous

“Don't mind criticism. If it's untrue, disregard it; if it's unfair, keep from irritation;If it's ignorant, smile; if it's justified, learn from it.”

AnonymousAnonymous

“First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.”

EpictetusEpictetus

“No learning opportunity is ever lost; someone always picks up those you miss.”

AnonymousAnonymous

“It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.”

James ThurberJames Thurber

“Some students drink deeply at the fountain of knowledge - others only gargle.”

AnonymousAnonymous

“Peoples minds are like parachutes - they only function when they are open!”

Leanne HastieLeanne Hastie

“It doesn't help aiming high if your gun isn't loaded.”

AnonymousAnonymous

“Even while they teach, men learn.”

SenecaSeneca

“You are what you learn.”

AnonymousAnonymous

“There is no such whetstone to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.”

Roger AschamRoger Ascham

“Some people learn from experience. Some people never recover from it.”

AnonymousAnonymous

“Everyone is the architect of their own learning.”

AppiusAppius ClaudiusClaudius

“The illiterate of the next millennium will not be the individual who cannot read and write but the one who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn.”

AnonymousAnonymous

“Experience without learning is better than learning without experience.”

AnonymousAnonymous

“They know enough who know how to learn.”

Henry AdamsHenry Adams

“Every age is destined for learning, nor is a person given other goals in learning than in life itself.”

Jan ComeniusJan Comenius

“Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.”

Thomas Henry HuxleyThomas Henry Huxley

“I grow old, ever learning many things.”

SolonSolon

“O! this learning, what a thing it is.”

ShakespeareShakespeare

“We live and learn.”

John PomfretJohn Pomfret

“If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us! But passion and party blind our eyes, and the light which experience gives is a lantern on the stern, which shines only on the waves behind us!”

Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSamuel Taylor Coleridge

“Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.”

BF SkinnerBF Skinner

“Education has produced a vast population able to read, but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.”

G M TrevelynG M Trevelyn

“Experience is the name everybody gives to their mistakes.”

Oscar WildeOscar Wilde

“The difference between education and experience: education is what you get from reading the small print, experience is what you get from not reading it.”

AnonymousAnonymous

“The best way is always the simplest way - once it is learned.”

Frank Bunker GilbrethFrank Bunker Gilbreth

“An ounce of experience is worth a ton of theory.”

Benjamin FranklinBenjamin Franklin

“I not only use all the brains I have, but all I can borrow.”

Woodrow WilsonWoodrow Wilson

“We shall not cease from explorationAnd the end of all our exploringWill be to arrive where we startedAnd know the place for the first time.”

T S EliotT S Eliot

“If a man empties his purse into his head – no one can take it away from him.”

Benjamin FranklinBenjamin Franklin

“An investment in knowledge always pays the best return.”

Benjamin FranklinBenjamin Franklin

“A yearly review is a summary of all the coaching sessions you have had throughout the year.”

AnonymousAnonymous

“A child of five could understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.”

Groucho MarxGroucho Marx

“Nothing is more confusing than people who give good advice and set bad examples.”

Norman Vincent PealeNorman Vincent Peale

“Coaching is helping someone to achieve their goals by themselves, though not on their own.”

AnonymousAnonymous

“Coaching requires the manager to replace authority with a strategy that lets the employee take control.”

Neil StroulNeil Stroul

“If I fall short of your expectations and you don’t tell me, we have both failed.”

AnonymousAnonymous

“If you want to build a ship, do not send your men out to get wood and tools … but teach them a longing for the wide open sea.”

Antoine de Saint-ExuperyAntoine de Saint-Exupery

“What gets measured gets done.What gets measured and receives feedback get done well.What gets rewarded gets repeated.”

AnonymousAnonymous

“I forget what I hear.I remember what I see.I learn what I do.”

Old Chinese ProverbOld Chinese Proverb

“We all have possibilities that we don’t know about. We can do things we don’t even dream we can do.”

Dale CarnegieDale Carnegie

“There is nothing more practical than a good theory.”

Kurt LewinKurt Lewin

“The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.”

Booker T, WashingtonBooker T, Washington

“He who knows not, and knows that he knows not, is a fool… Shun himHe who knows not, and knows that he knows not is ignorant… teach himHe who knows, and knows that he knows, is a wise man… follow himBut he who knows, and knows that he knows, is asleep… wake him.”

Arabic ManuscriptArabic Manuscript

“The brighter you are, the more you have to learn.”

Don HeroldDon Herold

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”

GandhiGandhi

“The only real mistake is the the one from which we learn nothing.”

John PowellJohn Powell

“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.”

AnonymousAnonymous

“I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me.”

Dudley Field MaloneDudley Field Malone

“There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from.”

Elizabeth Kubler-RossElizabeth Kubler-Ross

“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life; it goes on.”

Robert FrostRobert Frost

“I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.”

Ernest HemingwayErnest Hemingway

“I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strangely, I am ungrateful to these teachers.”

Kahil GibranKahil Gibran

“Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It’s not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.”

Muhammad AliMuhammad Ali

“The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain; to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do.”

Nan FairbrotherNan Fairbrother

“In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest.”

Henry MillerHenry Miller

“Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher themselves.”

John Jay ChapmanJohn Jay Chapman

“If you can learn from hard knocks, you can also learn from soft touches.”

Carolyn KenmoreCarolyn Kenmore

“There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.”

Josh BillingsJosh Billings

“One of the many lessons one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.”

Oscar WildeOscar Wilde

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.”

Benjamin FranklinBenjamin Franklin

“Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.”

E. M ForsterE. M Forster

“Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.”

Wiliam HazlittWiliam Hazlitt

“The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.” Anatole FranceAnatole France

“No other job in the world could possibly dispossess one so completely as this job of teaching. You could stand all day in a laundry, for instance, still in possession of your mind. But this teaching utterly obliterates you. It cuts into your being: essentially, it takes over your spirit. It drags it out from where it would hide.” Sylvia Ashton-WarnerSylvia Ashton-Warner

“The years teach much which the days never knew.”

Ralph Waldo EmersonRalph Waldo Emerson

“Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for the rest of his life.”

Chinese ProverbChinese Proverb

“Time is the best teacher; unfortunately it kills all its students.”

Bumper StickerBumper Sticker

“You’re never too old to learn something stupid.”

AnonymousAnonymous

“If all you have learnt to use is a hammer – everything looks like a nail.”

AnonymousAnonymous

“To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do another.”

Benjamin JowettBenjamin Jowett

“Knowing is not enough; we must apply.Willing is not enough we must do.”

GoetheGoethe

“Learning is not a spectator sport.”

D. BlocherD. Blocher

“For learning to take place with any kind of efficiency students must be motivate. To be motivated they must become interested. And they become interested when they are actively working on projects which they can relate to their goals in life.”

Gus TubervilleGus Tuberville

“The only kind of learning which significantly influences behaviour is self-discovery or self-appropriated learning – truth that has been assimilated in experience.”

Carl RogersCarl Rogers

“I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.”

Albert EinsteinAlbert Einstein

“The teacher if he is indeed wise does not teach or bid you enter the house of wisdom but leads you to the threshold of your own mind.”

Kahil GilbranKahil Gilbran

“Retention is best when the learner is involved.”

Edward GibbonEdward Gibbon

“Training is everything. The peach was once bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.”

Mark TwainMark Twain

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.”

Marcel ProustMarcel Proust

“The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.”

William Arthur Ward William Arthur Ward

“The biggest enemy to learning is the talking teacher.”

John HoltJohn Holt

“An acre is 43,560 sq. ft. That’s data. An acre is also about the size of a football field. That’s information.”

R. Saul WurmanR. Saul Wurman

“Everyone can learn, the only variable is the time needed.

Benjamin BloomBenjamin Bloom

“Not even the universe with its countless billions of galaxies represents greater wonder or complexity than the human brain. There is no limit to its range, scope or capacity for creative growth.”

Norman CousinsNorman Cousins

“Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.”

Oscar WildeOscar Wilde

“Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote,And think they grow immortal as they quote.”

Edward YoungEdward Young

“The road to wisdom? – Well it’s plain and simple to express:Err – and err, and err again.But less and less and less.”

Piet HeinPiet Hein

“To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.”

Lao-TzuLao-Tzu

“Some are born with knowledge, some derive it from study, and some acquire it only after a painful realization of their ignorance. But the knowledge being possessed, it comes to the same thing. Some study with a natural ease some from a desire for advantage, and some by strenuous effort. But the achievement being made, it comes to the same thing.”

Kung Fu Tzu (Confucius)Kung Fu Tzu (Confucius)

“When you know something, say what you know. When you don’t know something, say that you don’t know. That is knowledge.”

Kung Fu Tzu (Confucius)Kung Fu Tzu (Confucius)

“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.”

Mao ZedongMao Zedong

“The things we know best are the things we haven’t been taught.”

Luc VauvenarguesLuc Vauvenargues

“Learning without thought is labour lost. Thought without learning is intellectual death.”

Kung Fu Tzu (Confucius)Kung Fu Tzu (Confucius)

“The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.”

Mark Van DorenMark Van Doren

“The most important part of teaching? To teach what is to know.”

Simon WeilSimon Weil

“Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.”

Thomas CarlyleThomas Carlyle

“Why” said the the Dodo the best way to explain it, is to do it.”

Lewis CarrollLewis Carroll

“All things must be mentally accomplished before they are physically accomplished.”

Stephen CoveyStephen Covey

“Before you become too entranced with gorgeous gadgets and mesmerizing video displays, let me remind you that information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, and wisdom is not foresight. Each grows out of the other, and we need them all.”

Arthur C. ClarkeArthur C. Clarke

“I think, therefore I am(Cogito, ergo sum.)”

DescartesDescartes

“Its what you learn once you know it all that really makes the difference.”

AnonymousAnonymous

"If training were the same as learning, we'd all be so smart we couldn't stand ourselves."

Robert F. MagerRobert F. Mager

“Failure in learning is the path of least persistence”

AnonymousAnonymous

“Consistency is the last bastion of the unimaginative”

Oscar WildeOscar Wilde

“People may doubt what you say but always believe what you do”

AnonymousAnonymous

“Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprang up.”

Oliver Wendell Holmes, JrOliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

“Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.”

Richard SteeleRichard Steele

“The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources.”

Norman Vincent PealeNorman Vincent Peale

“The final obstacle is the belief that there is an obstacle.”

PapajiPapaji

“Nurture your mind with great thoughts.”

BenjaminBenjamin DisraeliDisraeli

“Practice doesn't make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect.”

VinceVince LombardiLombardi

“Any thought that is passed on to the subconscious often enough and convincingly enough is finally accepted.”

Robert CollierRobert Collier

“We are what we repeatedly do.”

AristotleAristotle

“Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.”

Albert EinsteinAlbert Einstein

“Questions are the creative acts of intelligence.”

Frank KingdomFrank Kingdom

“Every creative act involves...a new innocence of perception, liberated from the cataract of accepted belief.”

Arthur KoestlerArthur Koestler

“Knowledge increases in proportion to its use - that is, the more we teach the more we learn.”

H. P. BlavatskyH. P. Blavatsky

“If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't you're right.”

Mary Kay AshMary Kay Ash

“The mind is like a clock that is constantly running down and must be wound up daily with good thoughts.”

Fulton J SheenFulton J Sheen

“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For while knowledge defines all we currently know and understand, imagination points to all we might yet discover and create.”

EinsteinEinstein

“The major challenge for leaders in the twenty-first century will be how to release the brain power of their organisations.”

Warren BennisWarren Bennis

“Most people don't take the time to think. I made an international reputation for myself by deciding to think twice a week.”

George Bernard ShawGeorge Bernard Shaw

“Before the gates of excellence the high Gods have placed sweat.”

Unknown Greek PoetUnknown Greek Poet

On being asked how he had “discovered” the law of gravitation, Newton replied “by thinking on it continually.”

Isaac NewtonIsaac Newton

“The greatest achievements and virtuoso performances of our lives are romanced not beaten out of us.”

Nick WilliamsNick Williams

“All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.”

Leonardo da VinciLeonardo da Vinci

“Learning is no longer preparation for the job, it is the job.”

AnonymousAnonymous

Sitting still in confined places is one of the worst punishments that can be inflicted on the human species. Yet, this is what we require of students -.

Edward T. HallEdward T. Hall

“Behaviourism – the belief that all learning consists of a stimulus / response, carrot-and-stick training and that only observed behaviour is worthy of study – has had a disastrous influence on 20th century perceptions.”

A. ArnoldA. Arnold

“If there is one thing we should know from years and years of experience, it’s that sleep learning doesn’t work.”

AnonymousAnonymous

“The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be ignited.”

PlutarchPlutarch

“The facilitator’s role is to initiate the learning process and then get out of the way.”

John WarrenJohn Warren

“Wonder is the seed of knowledge.”

Francis BaconFrancis Bacon

“It’s what the learner says and does that is more important than what the facilitator says and does for the actual learning.”

Win WengerWin Wenger

“Intelligence shows itself not so much in always having the right answers but in being able to ask the right question.”

AnonymousAnonymous

“One of the greatest faults in modern education is over structuring, which does not allow for play at every point in the educational process.”

Edward T. HallEdward T. Hall

“It is necessary only to be master of the metaphor.”

AristotleAristotle

“Too hot, too cold, too hungry, too tired or too still… and forget about learning.”

Alistair SmithAlistair Smith

“The aim of education should be to convert the mind into a living fountain, not a reservoir.”

John MasonJohn Mason

“Teaching is not the application of a system; it is an exercise in perpetual discretion.”

Jacques BarzunJacques Barzun

“Repose is not the end of education. Its end is a noble unrest, an ever renewed awakening from the dead.”

George MacDonaldGeorge MacDonald

“Artistry, intuition, perspective, and quick reflexes are what help teaches survive – not rigid adherence to a particular set of techniques.”

Jonathan ZapJonathan Zap

“In the main, the bureaucratic structure of the workplace is more powerful in determining what professionals do than are personal abilities, professional training, or previous experience. Therefore, efforts should focus on changing the structure of the workplace, not on changing the teachers.”

Jack FrymierJack Frymier

“If you tell somebody they can do something, give them some belief, their expectation goes up.”

David HockneyDavid Hockney

“It not how many answers the student know, it’s how they behave when they don’t know that counts.”

Arthur CostaArthur Costa

“We know there’s a part of the brain… that gets activated when we’re very emotional, and it increases our ability to remember things. When there’s emotion attached to something we’re more likely to remember it.”

Dr Marilyn AlbertDr Marilyn Albert

“Trying to learn without reviewing is like trying to fill the bath without putting the plug in.”

Mike HughesMike Hughes

“We retain:10% of what we read20% of what we hear30% of what we see50% of what we hear and say90% of what we say and do.”

AnonymousAnonymous

“We are none of us very good at sitting still for extended periods of time with our attention systems all engaged by one set of stimuli.”

Alistair SmithAlistair Smith

“The problem with training is the cost, not the cost of training but the cost of not training.”

Garry PlattGarry Platt

“Information is not knowledge.”

Susan GreenfieldSusan Greenfield

“Your own examples, case studies and stories, enliven learning and are remembered. Time them like this:

Your Story – 60%Your Point – 20%Your link to learning – 20%

Glen Capelli after Dale CarnegieGlen Capelli after Dale Carnegie

“The greatest enemy of learning is coverage. As long as you are determined to cover everything you guarantee that most learners are not going to understand.”

Howard GardnerHoward Gardner

“The purpose of a question is for learning to take place, not testing to take place.”

Bob PikeBob Pike

“We do not think in a linear, sequential way, yet every body of information is given to us in a linear manner. Every language structure is basically linear… we are taught to communicate in a way that is actually restricting our ability to think.”

Richard Saul WurmannRichard Saul Wurmann

“Ultimately, a full understanding of any concept of any complexity cannot be restricted to a single mode of knowing.”

Howard GardnerHoward Gardner

“Genius is that energy which collects, combines, amplifies and animates.”

Samuel JohnsonSamuel Johnson

“I think somehow we learn who really are and then live with that decision.”

Eleanor RooseveltEleanor Roosevelt

“Tomorrow’s employees will be doing what robots cannot do, which means that their work will call for sophisticated intelligence.”

Cain & CaneCain & Cane

“ In the coming century there will be no national products or technologies, no national corporations, no national industries. There will no longer be national economies…all that will remain rooted within national borders are the people who comprise a nation. Each nation’s primary assets will be its citizen’s skills.

Robert ReichRobert Reich

“Good teaching should provide opportunities for students to take increasing responsibility for their own work.”

OFSTEDOFSTED

“Unless learners are in the appropriate state, it’s time to stop everything and start changing their state.”

E. JensenE. Jensen

“It is through education and learning that we can ultimately achieve all our goals and desires.”

Colin JacksonColin Jackson

“Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.”

Chinese ProverbChinese Proverb

“Education means never having the feeling of inadequacy.”

Duncan GoodhewDuncan Goodhew

“The world of the future will favour intellectual properties of invention, creation and understanding. Imaginative thinkers will be the ones working in the 21st Century. Only education can provide the training for those will do this work.”

Griff Rhys JonesGriff Rhys Jones

“If you learn from your mistakes, you become a better person. If you don’t learn from what you’ve done wrong, then your defeating the purpose.”

Wayne GretzkyWayne Gretzky

“Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.”

Thomas Alva EdisonThomas Alva Edison

“No truly educated person can ever be bored.”

Arthur C. ClarkeArthur C. Clarke

“Education can open doors and the more doors open to you the more chance you have in life.”

Sharon DaviesSharon Davies

“We need to broadcast on the student’s frequency. The frequency is Radio WIIFM – Radio ‘What’s In It For Me?’”

B. De PorterB. De Porter

“To learn anything fast and effectively you need to see it, hear it, feel it.”

T. StockwellT. Stockwell

“Though I do not deny that memory can be helped by places and images, yet the best memory is based on three important things: namely study, order and care.”

ErasmusErasmus

“You can remember any new piece of information if it is associated to something you already know or remember.”

Lorayne & LucasLorayne & Lucas

“ When to the sessions of sweet silent thoughtI summon up remembrance of things past,I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought,And with old woes new well my dear time’s waste.”

ShakespeareShakespeare

“Since the brain is indisputably a multipath, multimodal apparatus, the notion of mandatory sequences or even of any fixed sequences is unsupportable. Each of us learns in a personal, highly individual, mainly random way… That being the case any group instruction that has been tightly, logically planned will have been wrongly planned for most of the group, and will inevitably inhibit, prevent or distort learning.”

L.A. HartL.A. Hart

“In learning there are ‘ah-ha’ moments and ‘ha’ moments. There are occasionally ‘aaah’ moments but there aren’t enough ‘ha-ha’ moments!”

Alistair SmithAlistair Smith

“You can read the same material again and again without it entering your long-term memory. Memorising material needs to be more active. You need to seek out the meaning, think it through and structure it in the way you feel is most relevant.”

Nick MirskyNick Mirsky

“Learning is directly proportional to the amount of fun you have.”

Bob PikeBob Pike

“A little learning is a dangerous thing;Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,And drinking largely sobers us again.”

Alexander PopeAlexander Pope

“A barber learns to shave by shaving fools.”

Romanian ProverbRomanian Proverb

“A certain awkwardness marks the use of borrowed thoughts; but as soon as we have learned what to do with them, they become our own.”

Ralph Waldo EmersonRalph Waldo Emerson

“A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

Benjamin FranklinBenjamin Franklin

“A learned man has always wealth in himself.”

Latin ProverbLatin Proverb

“A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.”

Frederick DouglassFrederick Douglass

“A man learns to skate by staggering about making a fool of himself; indeed, he progresses in all things by making a fool of himself.”

George Bernard ShawGeorge Bernard Shaw

“A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.”

George HerbertGeorge Herbert

“A man profits more by the sight of an idiot than by the orations of the learned.”

Saudi Arabian ProverbSaudi Arabian Proverb

“A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.”

Mark TwainMark Twain

“A spirit of fun should pervade every meeting because it helps people participate and learn.”

Gene PerretGene Perret

“A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom.”

Welsh ProverbWelsh Proverb

“A wise man learns at the fool's expense.”

Brazilian ProverbBrazilian Proverb

“A wise teacher makes learning a joy.”

Traditional ProverbTraditional Proverb

“All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in kindergarten. Remember the Dick-and-Jane books and the first word you learned - the biggest word of all - LOOK.”

Robert FulghumRobert Fulghum

“A man in this world without learning is as a beast of the field.”

Hindu ProverbHindu Proverb

“All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.”

Winston ChurchillWinston Churchill

“Always keep learning. It keeps you young.”

Patty BergPatty Berg

“An individual's self-concept is the core of his personality. It affects every aspect of human behaviour: the ability to learn, the capacity to grow and change . . . . A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success in life.”

Joyce BrothersJoyce Brothers

“You should keep on learning as long as there is something you do not know.”

Lucius Annaeus SenecaLucius Annaeus Seneca

“You're not gonna change any of them by talkin' right, they've got to want to learn themselves, and when they don't want to learn there's nothing you can do but keep your mouth shut or talk their language.”

Harper LeeHarper Lee

“There is no time of life past learning something.”

Saint AmbroseSaint Ambrose

“Timothy was so learned he could name a horse in 9 languages, and bought a cow to ride on.”

Benjamin Franklin Benjamin Franklin

“To try and fail is at least to learn; to fail to try is to suffer the inestimable loss of what might have been.”

George Bernard ShawGeorge Bernard Shaw

“True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.”

Abigail Van BurenAbigail Van Buren

“Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.”

Virgil ThomsonVirgil Thomson

“We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.”

Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau

“We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.”

George Bernard ShawGeorge Bernard Shaw

“We must learn to walk before we can run.”

Traditional ProverbTraditional Proverb

“We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”

Omar BradleyOmar Bradley

“We should live and learn; but by the time we've learned, it's too late to live.”

Carolyn WellsCarolyn Wells

“We teach what we learn, and the cycle goes on.”

Joan L. CurcioJoan L. Curcio

“We worship education but hate learning.”

Florence KingFlorence King

“The learn'd is happy nature to explore,The fool is happy that he knows no more.”

Alexander PopeAlexander Pope

“The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything.”

Georg HegelGeorg Hegel

“The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.”

Audre LordeAudre Lorde

“The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.”

Carl RowanCarl Rowan

“The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.”

Henry S. HaskinsHenry S. Haskins

“The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn and feel and change and grow and love and live.”

Leo BuscagliaLeo Buscaglia

“The process of learning requires not only hearing and applying but also forgetting and then remembering again.”

John Gray John Gray

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

Mortimer AdlerMortimer Adler

“The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody's word about them.”

Henry St. John BolingbrokeHenry St. John Bolingbroke

“The things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.”

AristotleAristotle

“The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate.”

Doug LarsonDoug Larson

“The trouble with man is twofold. He cannot learn the truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple.”

Rebecca WestRebecca West

“The wisest mind has something yet to learn.”

George SantayanaGeorge Santayana

“The world of learning is so broad, and the human soul is so limited in power! We reach forth and strain every nerve, but we seize only a bit of the curtain that hides the infinite from us.”

Maria MitchellMaria Mitchell

“There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.”

Elisabeth Kubler-RossElisabeth Kubler-Ross

“There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.”

Willa CatherWilla Cather

“There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning, and yearning.”

Christopher MorleyChristopher Morley

“There is no easy method of learning difficult things. The method is to close the door, give out that you are not at home, and work.”

Joseph Marie De MaistreJoseph Marie De Maistre

“There is no need to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.”

Jiddu KrishnamurtiJiddu Krishnamurti

“There is no such whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.”

Roger AschamRoger Ascham

“Some days you must learn a great deal. But you should also have days when you allow what is already in you to swell up and touch everything. If you never let that happen, then you just accumulate facts, and they begin to rattle around inside of you.”

E. L. KonigsburgE. L. Konigsburg

“Some wisdom you must learn from one who's wise.”

Euripides Euripides

“Soon learned, soon forgotten.”

Traditional ProverbTraditional Proverb

“Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.”

Stephen Vizinczey Stephen Vizinczey

“Strong people make as many and as ghastly mistakes as weak people. The difference is that strong people admit them, laugh at them, learn from them. That is how they become strong.”

Richard J. NeedhamRichard J. Needham

“Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.”

Thomas HobbesThomas Hobbes

“Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know -- and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.”

Isaac AsimovIsaac Asimov

“Take the attitude of a student, Never be to big to ask questions, Never know to much to learn something new.”

Og MandinoOg Mandino

“Teaching is the royal road to learning.”

Jessamyn WestJessamyn West

“That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.”

Doris LessingDoris Lessing

“That's what learning is, after all: not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we've changed because of it, and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way, is winning.”

Richard BachRichard Bach

“The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.”

B. B. KingB. B. King

“The biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee how to fail intelligently. We have to train him to experiment over and over and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.”

Charles KetteringCharles Kettering

“The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.”

Theodore ParkerTheodore Parker

“The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you're learning you're not old.”

Rosalyn Sussman YalowRosalyn Sussman Yalow

“The head learns new things, but the heart forever more practices old experiences.”

Henry Ward Beecher Henry Ward Beecher

“The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose. Life is a learning process and you have to try to learn what's best for you. Let me tell you, life is not fun when you're banging your head against a brick wall all the time.”

John McEnroeJohn McEnroe

“Not to unlearn what you have learned is the most necessary kind of learning.”

AntisthenesAntisthenes

“Nothing said to us, nothing we can learn from others, reaches us so deep as that which we find in ourselves.”

Theodor ReikTheodor Reik

“Old men are always young enough to learn with profit.”

AeschylusAeschylus

“Once you have learned what to unlearn, success will come, so work and wait.”

Ronald HambletonRonald Hambleton

“One must learn by doing the thing; though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try.”

Sophocles Sophocles

“One pound of learning requires ten pounds of common sense to apply it.”

Persian ProverbPersian Proverb

“One who is afraid of asking questions is ashamed of learning.”

Danish ProverbDanish Proverb

“Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.”

Samuel Smiles Samuel Smiles

“Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.”

Chinese ProverbChinese Proverb

“Learning is finding out what we already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers and teachers.”

Richard BachRichard Bach

“Learning is not attained by chance. It must be sought for with ardour and attended to with diligence.”

Abigail AdamsAbigail Adams

“Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.”

NovalisNovalis

“Learning makes the wise wiser and the fool more foolish.”

John RayJohn Ray

“Live and learn.”

Traditional ProverbTraditional Proverb

“Love of learning is a pleasant and universal bond, since it deals with what one is and not what one has.”

Freya StarkFreya Stark

“Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown.”

Claude BernardClaude Bernard

“Many times the best way, in fact the only way, to learn is through mistakes. A fear of making mistakes can bring individuals to a standstill, to a dead centre. Fear is the wicked wand that transforms human beings into vegetables.”

George BrownGeorge Brown

“More important than learning how to recall things is finding ways to forget things that are cluttering the mind.”

Eric ButterworthEric Butterworth

“Much learning does not teach understanding.”

Heraclitus of EphesusHeraclitus of Ephesus

“Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.”

Denis WaitleyDenis Waitley

“Never too late to learn.”

Traditional ProverbTraditional Proverb

“Never try to learn more from an experience than there is in it. There are some vivid and painful experiences that have little to teach us.”

D. SuttenD. Sutten

“In youth we learn; in age we understand.”

Marie von Ebner-EschenbachMarie von Ebner-Eschenbach

“Instead of looking at life as a narrowing funnel, we can see it ever widening to choose the things we want to do, to take the wisdom we've learned and create something.”

Liz CarpenterLiz Carpenter

“Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them.”

Joseph AddisonJoseph Addison

“It is never too late to learn what is always necessary to know.”

Lucius Annaeus Seneca Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them.”

Leo Buscaglia Leo Buscaglia

“It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning.”

Claude Bernard Claude Bernard

“It's okay to make mistakes. Mistakes are our teachers -- they help us to learn.”

John BradshawJohn Bradshaw

“Knowledge increases in proportion to its use -- that is, the more we teach the more we learn.”

Helena Petrova BlavatskyHelena Petrova Blavatsky

“Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; love by love.”

Thomas SzaszThomas Szasz

“Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much;Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.”

William CowperWilliam Cowper

“Learn from everyone, copy no one.”

Don ShulaDon Shula

“Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself.”

Martin Vanbee Martin Vanbee

“Learning . . . should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life's greatest adventure; it is an illustrated excursion into the mind of noble and learned men, not a conducted tour through a jail.”

Taylor CaldwellTaylor Caldwell

“I think the one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention.”

Diane SawyerDiane Sawyer

“I'd like to be a bigger and more knowledgeable person 10 years from now than I am today. I think that, for all of us, as we grow older, we must discipline ourselves to continue expanding, broadening, learning, keeping our minds active and open.”

Clint EastwoodClint Eastwood

“Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.”

John SteinbeckJohn Steinbeck

“If a man has a talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has a talent and uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded . . .”

Thomas WolfeThomas Wolfe

“In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him, and in that I am his pupil.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I have learned the novice can often see things that the expert overlooks. All that is necessary is not to be afraid of making mistakes, or of appearing naive.”

Abraham Maslow Abraham Maslow

“I learned much more from defeat than I ever learned from winning.”

Grantland RiceGrantland Rice

“I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions.”

Lou HoltzLou Holtz

“I think success has no rules, but you can learn a great deal from failure.”

Jean KerrJean Kerr

“Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.”

John DeweyJohn Dewey

“He that knew all that ever learning writ,Knew only this -- that he knew nothing yet.”

Aphra BehnAphra Behn

“He who has imagination without learning has wings and no feet.”

Joseph JoubertJoseph Joubert

“He who is afraid to ask is ashamed of learning.”

Danish ProverbDanish Proverb

“He who laughs most, learns best.”

John CleeseJohn Cleese

“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 Douglas Adams

“By learning you will teach, by teaching you will learn.”

Latin Proverb Latin Proverb

“Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.”

William A. WardWilliam A. Ward

“Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily . . .”

Thomas SzaszThomas Szasz

‘The mind cannot absorb what the seat cannot endure!’

Jenny MaddenJenny Madden

‘Intelligence is proved not by ease of learning but by understanding what we learn.’

Joseph WhitneyJoseph Whitney

“To teach is to learn again.”

AnonymousAnonymous

“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire”

William Butler YeatsWilliam Butler Yeats

“Don't try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of time and it annoys the pig.”

AnonymousAnonymous

“The secret of education is respecting the pupil.”

Ralph Waldo EmersonRalph Waldo Emerson