A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.
~By Arthur Schopenhauer ~
If you're going to go through hell... I suggest you come back learning something.
~By Drew Barrymore ~
The introduction of many minds into many fields of learning along a broad spectrum keeps alive questions about the accessibility, if not the unity, of knowledge.
~By Edward Levi ~
There are two ways to extend a business. Take inventory of what you're good at and extend out from your skills. Or determine what your customers need and work backward, even if it requires learning new skills. Kindle is an example of working backward.
~By Jeff Bezos ~
A happy life is one spent in learning, earning, and yearning.
~By Lillian Gish ~
Not to unlearn what you have learned is the most necessary kind of learning.
~By Antisthenes ~
I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.
~By Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ~
In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to spare us the abjection of learning.
~By Jean Baudrillard ~
I was 17 and just learning what high fidelity was, what good sound was, and learning the mechanics of tape machines. It was a real education, going right from the consumer end to the record factory.
~By Alan Parsons ~
Learning can take place in the backyard if there is a human being there who cares about the child. Before learning computers, children should learn to read first. They should sit around the dinner table and hear what their parents have to say and think.
~By Dixie Carter ~
The best way of learning to be an independent sovereign state is to be an independent sovereign state.
~By Kwame Nkrumah ~
Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.
~By Wilma Rudolph ~
I think the most wonderful thing in the world is another chef. I'm always excited about learning new things about food.
~By Paul Prudhomme ~
The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
~By B. B. King ~
Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.
~By Stephen Vizinczey ~
We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.
~By Lloyd Alexander ~
The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.
~By Plato ~
I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.
~By Eartha Kitt ~
All are agreed, that the increase of learning and good morals are great blessings to society.
~By Joseph Lancaster ~
I spent a lot of years just learning my craft and falling down in front of the camera.
~By Thomas Jane ~
Information is a source of learning. But unless it is organized, processed, and available to the right people in a format for decision making, it is a burden, not a benefit.
~By William Pollard ~
I'm learning to accept the lack of privacy as the real downer in my profession.
~By Halle Berry ~
I became CEO at the beginning of the hit on old economy stocks. When something like that occurs in your first six months as a CEO of a more traditional branded firm, it makes for a fast learning curve.
~By Andrea Jung ~
One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.
~By Washington Irving ~
Never stop learning; knowledge doubles every fourteen months.
~By Anthony J. D'Angelo ~
I'm still at the beginning of my career. It's all a little new, and I'm still learning as I go.
~By Orlando Bloom ~
Going to a party, for me, is as much a learning experience as, you know, sitting in a lecture.
~By Natalie Portman ~
Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little wordings enjoy.
~By Edward Young ~
There are hurdles to overcome in sport and in life. Sport is a very valuable learning ground for how to live your life in the best possible way.
~By Lynn Davies ~
For me, the most difficult thing is that I am learning melodies on guitar from some songs whose melodies were not meant to be played on guitar. Ever. They were intended mostly for keyboards or melodic percussion.
~By Dweezil Zappa ~
It's a weird sensation to be mad and learning at the same time.
~By Jeff Foxworthy ~
The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history.
~By Carl T. Rowan ~
I love talking about women because they are a constant study and you're always learning.
~By Mario Lopez ~
Young children were sooner allured by love, than driven by beating, to attain good learning.
~By Roger Ascham ~
The fact is that the learning process goes on, and so long as the voices are not stilled and the singers go on singing some of it gets through.
~By Morris West ~
The chess player who develops the ability to play two dozen boards at a time will benefit from learning to compress his or her analysis into less time.
~By Marilyn vos Savant ~
A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
~By Frederick Douglass ~
In the end, my pursuit of the elusive New York State driver's license became about much more than a divorced woman's learning to drive for the first time.
~By Suzanne Vega ~
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.
~By Lord Chesterfield ~
Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities - that's training or instruction - but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed.
~By Thomas Moore ~
Some people are so busy learning the tricks of the trade that they never learn the trade.
~By Vernon Law ~
I had been here five years already, training very hard, learning about the systems, the shuttle, the station systems. But, everything really became real when I started to work with them.
~By Philippe Perrin ~
I believe that the testing of the student's achievements in order to see if he meets some criterion held by the teacher, is directly contrary to the implications of therapy for significant learning.
~By Carl Rogers ~
The Company of Wolves is about how society teaches young women to look at themselves, and what to be afraid of. It's about a girl learning that the world of sensuality and the unknown is not to be feared, that it's worth getting your teeth into.
~By Neil Jordan ~
And, one thing I definitely enjoyed personally, from a selfish point of view, was exploration and going to places that I had never been to before and learning, you know, meeting the people and getting to know, new sights and sounds, etc.
~By Duane G. Carey ~
The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.
~By Samuel Smiles ~
The rare person is still interested in new advances when they are adults. There is possibly a correlation with intelligence. In any case, you have to be fairly bright to keep learning and changing attitudes as you get older.
~By Keith Henson ~
Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.
~By Anthony J. D'Angelo ~
Basketball, in America, is like a culture. It is like a foreigner learning a new language. It is difficult to learn foreign languages and it will also be difficult for me to learn the culture for basketball here.
~By Yao Ming ~
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
~By Albert Einstein ~
The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.
~By Tony Robbins ~
I don't love studying. I hate studying. I like learning. Learning is beautiful.
~By Natalie Portman ~
It does not require great learning to be a Christian and be convinced of the truth of the Bible. It requires only an honest heart and a willingness to obey God.
~By Albert Barnes ~
In those parts of the world where learning and science has prevailed, miracles have ceased; but in those parts of it as are barbarous and ignorant, miracles are still in vogue.
~By Ethan Allen ~
The only animals I'm not comfortable with are parrots, but I'm learning as I go. I'm getting better and better at 'em. I really am.
~By Steve Irwin ~
Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.
~By Colin Powell ~
It is no secret that the fruits of language study are in no sort of relation to the labour spent on teaching and learning them.
~By Edward Sapir ~
Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.
~By Robert Byrne ~
I think my books talk about kids learning to like and respect themselves and each other. You can't write a message book; you just tell the best story you know how to tell.
~By Paula Danziger ~
Our learning ought to be our lives' amendment, and the fruits of our private study ought to appear in our public behavior.
~By Thomas Nashe ~
Start with God - the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.
~By King Solomon ~
I was delighted to have lines when they came - learning lines for film isn't a problem, but television is a little different, because we shot those shows the whole way through.
~By David Selby ~
It's like learning a language; you can't speak a language fluently until you find out who you are in that language, and that has as much to do with your body as it does with vocabulary and grammar.
~By Fred Frith ~
Year by year we are learning that in this restless, strenuous American life of ours vacations are essential.
~By Ellsworth Huntington ~
An important aspect of the current situation is the strong social reaction against suggestions that the home language of African American children be used in the first steps of learning to read and write.
~By William Labov ~
I was a kid, and I wasn't even sure if I wanted to play the drums, you know? All I wanted to do was skateboard, but I was still learning and taking it in, so it was good.
~By Travis Barker ~
In mine opinion, love is fitter than fear, gentleness better than beating, to bring up a child rightly in learning.
~By Roger Ascham ~
He that knew all that learning ever writ, Knew only this - that he knew nothing yet.
~By Aphra Behn ~
The hardest thing was learning to write. I was 13, and the only writing I had done was for Social Studies. It consisted of copying passages right out of the encyclopedia.
~By Tracy Kidder ~
I think I'd like to stay anchoring because, number one, I'm learning a lot, and I love it when I'm learning. And number two, I also have the luxury of a stable life.
~By Linda Vester ~
Home schooled children frequently combine for many purposes - and they interact well. The growth of the home schooling movement means that more and more children are learning together, just not in a traditional classroom.
~By Ernest Istook ~
Even though I didn't get a business degree, I enjoyed learning about economics.
~By Herb Ritts ~
Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.
~By Josh Billings ~
What makes a child gifted and talented may not always be good grades in school, but a different way of looking at the world and learning.
~By Chuck Grassley ~
'No Child Left Behind' requires states and school districts to ensure that all students are learning and are reaching their highest potential. Special education students should not be left out of these accountability mechanisms.
~By Dianne Feinstein ~
Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
~By Petrarch ~
This life is a process of learning.
~By Lauryn Hill ~
Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty.
~By Roger Ascham ~
Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
That image of the countryside being a threatening place still exists. People continue to resist the challenge of learning about aspects of life they don't understand.
~By Mary Wesley ~
Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.
~By Abraham Cahan ~
I feel like that I'm learning all the time. I'm learning from new artists, from established artists... every time I listen to '70s rock 'n' roll records, I'm learning. And I think that I'm just now starting to get a hold on what I do.
~By Tim McGraw ~
I do remember actually learning chords to Beatles songs. I thought they were great songwriters.
~By Mick Taylor ~
Probably having fallen in love with music and movies at a young age and then first learning about writing by kind of following the path of writers like Dave Marsh and Lester Bangs and being a rock journalist.
~By Cameron Crowe ~
I loved education, and, yes, I did want to go on learning.
~By Arthur Hailey ~
I was training more learning how to scuba dive which I'd never done which was really, really, really cool.
~By Ashley Scott ~
After the United States entered the war, I joined the Naval Reserve and spent ninety days in a Columbia University dormitory learning to be a naval officer.
~By James Tobin ~
One thing changes every evening: It's the audience, and I'm working my magic. I'm always learning from it.
~By Eli Wallach ~
I can't sit down long enough to absorb any kind of learning.
~By Buddy Rich ~
The Finland of the 21st century can thrive only if women of learning - in common with their male counterparts - are guaranteed the opportunity to use their creative potential to the full.
~By Tarja Halonen ~
A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
~By Alexander Pope ~
Making a wrong decision is understandable. Refusing to search continually for learning is not.
~By Phil Crosby ~
Belief gets in the way of learning.
~By Jeremy Collier ~
All mankind is now learning that these nuclear weapons can only serve to destroy, never become beneficial.
~By Alva Myrdal ~
I think my family and closest friends are learning about my need to withdraw, and I am learning how to restore and store my energy to both serve the community to the best of my ability and to serve my writer's heart.
~By Sandra Cisneros ~
Just learning to think in another language allows you to see your own culture in a better viewpoint.
~By Gates McFadden ~
There is no end 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.
~By Jiddu Krishnamurti ~
Learning is always rebellion... Every bit of new truth discovered is revolutionary to what was believed before.
~By Margaret Lee Runbeck ~
I remember in the circus learning that the clown was the prince, the high prince. I always thought that the high prince was the lion or the magician, but the clown is the most important.
~By Roberto Benigni ~
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