Learning Quotes

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

"If you accept failure as an opportunity to learn, it will change your whole perspective. Some people allow failures to stop them form ever attempting anything new. Rather than learn and move on, these people get stuck forever."
Catherine Pulsifer, from MY STORY

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

"We can learn to deal with life's challenges by setting aside some time to go to work on ourselves, developing a state of acceptance. When we can learn to calm our minds and separate ourselves from our problems, we are on the road to significant improvement."
Matt Clarkson

"Turning our country crafts into a source of income has not come without its challenges. It is like learning a new trade, starting at the bottom, and learning different ways to do things. We continue to learn as we go!"
Byron & Catherine Pulsifer, from Our Journey

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

"Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open."
Sir James Dewar

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

"We must learn to be less wasterful and to develop an environmental ethic that includes a respect for all other species."
Paul Griss, The Daily Planet

"You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives."
Clay P. Bedford

"Our ability to achieve success depends on the strength of our wings gained through knowledge and experience. The greater our knowledge and experience, the higher we can fly."
Catherine Pulsifer

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

"Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know."
Daniel J. Boorstin

"Be thankful when you don't know something,
for it gives you the opportunity to learn."
Author Unknown, from BE THANKFUL

"Learning without thought is labor lost."
Confucius

"My green thumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to see things from the plant's point of view."
H. Fred Ale

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

"Learn to look at every difficult situation as a present; the gift within is the possibilities it holds. To open the gift you must find the 'possibility'."
Catherine Pulsifer, from See The Positive in All Situations

"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

"Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
Gandhi

"Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence."
Abigail Adams

"Always remember that even during the hardest of times there are lessons to be learned, and through those lessons we have an opportunity to strengthen our spirit. Never lose your sense of possibility and what life has in store for you."
Josh Hinds

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

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

"Some solutions are passed down from our families and some are ones we have learned since we have simplified our life."
Catherine Pulsifer, from Simplicity Cleaning Solutions

"If you give me rice, I’ll eat today; if you teach me how to grow rice, I’ll eat every day."
Mahatma Gandhi

"The wisest mind has something yet to learn."
George Santayana

"If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest."
Benjamin Franklin

"Learn from the mistakes of others; you can't live long enough to make them all yourself."
Sam Levenson

"One of the best lessons you can learn in life is to master how to remain calm. Don't let challenges upset you."
Catherine Pulsifer, from Does It Really Matter!

"Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on."
Samuel Butler

"Learn avidly. Question repeatedly what you have learned. Analyze it carefully. Then put what you have learned into practice intelligently."
Edward Cocker

"There’s still plenty to do. I think I’ll never run out of things to accomplish, as long as I’m alive, because there’s so much to learn, and so much to do. I always feel like I have so much further to go, personally, spiritually, emotionally, mentally, and physically."
Queen Latifah

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

"Learning is an active process. We learn by doing."
Dale Carnegie

"The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder."
Ralph W.Sockman

"It's about simplifying our lives right where we are. It's about learning to reduce the laundering chore, along with all the other chores and frequently self imposed obligations, so we can begin to make the contributions we all, in our heart of hearts, want to make to our family, to our community, to our environment, and to the world."
Elaine St. James, from Living the Simple Life