WISE WORDS ABOUT LEARNING AN TEACHING

WISE WORDS  ABOUT LEARNING

Collected by MasKatnoGiri

1. The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.  ~Mohammed
2. You learn something every day if you pay attention.  ~Ray LeBlond
3. Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.  ~Chinese Proverb
4. All the world is a laboratory to the inquiring mind.  ~Martin H. Fischer
5. 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.
6.   ~Clay P. Bedford
7. Get over the idea that only children should spend their time in study.  Be a student so long as you still have something to learn, and this will mean all your life. 
8. ~Henry L. Doherty
9. I am learning all the time.  The tombstone will be my diploma.  ~Eartha Kitt
10. It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.  ~Attributed to Harry S Truman
11. A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.  ~Chinese Proverb
12. In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.  ~Paul Eldridge
13. When the student is ready, the master appears.  ~Buddhist Proverb
14. 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
15. It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.  ~Jacob Bronowski
16. Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.  ~Mark Twain
17. Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.  ~Oliver Wendell Holmes
18. You learn something every day if you pay attention.  ~Ray LeBlond
19. The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.  ~Antisthenes
20. Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.  ~Alexander Pope
21. Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.  ~Thomas Huxley
22. Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.  ~Abbé Dimnet, Art of Thinking, 1928
23. I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.  ~Abraham Lincoln
24. I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.  ~Winston Churchill
25. The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.  ~Mortimer Adler
26. There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.  ~Willa Cather
27. There are many things which we can afford to forget which it is yet well to learn.  ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

2. I am defeated, and know it, if I meet any human being from whom I find myself unable to learn anything.  ~George Herbert Palmer
3. Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn and you will.  ~Vernon Howard
4. Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.  ~Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
5. 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
6. No matter how one may think himself accomplished, when he sets out to learn a new language, science, or the bicycle, he has entered a new realm as truly as if he were a child newly born into the world.  ~Frances Willard, How I Learned to Ride the Bicycle
7. Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty.  ~Henry Ford
8. It is not hard to learn more.  What is hard is to unlearn when you discover yourself wrong.  ~Martin H. Fischer
9. Each day learn something new, and just as important, relearn something old.  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
10. 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
11. You have learned something.  That always feels at first as if you had lost something.  ~H.G. Wells
12. I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me.  ~Dudley Field Malone
13. 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 Szasz
14. I am what the librarians have made me with a little assistance from a professor of Greek and a few poets.  ~Bernard Keble Sandwell
15. Learn as much as you can while you are young, since life becomes too busy later.  ~Dana Stewart Scott
16. His studies were pursued but never effectually overtaken.  ~H.G. Wells
17. 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
18. Learning is a lifetime process, but there comes a time when we must stop adding and start updating.  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
19. Learning without thought is labor lost.  ~Confucius
20. The pupil can only educate himself.  Teachers are the custodians of apparatus upon which he himself must turn and twist to acquire the excellencies that distinguish the better from the poorer of God's vessels.  ~Martin H. Fischer
21. The best of my education has come from the public library... my tuition fee is a bus fare and once in a while, five cents a day for an overdue book.  You don't need to know very much to start with, if you know the way to the public library.  ~Lesley Conger
22. The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.  ~Henry S. Haskins
23. 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
24. You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way.  ~Marvin Minsky
25. 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
26. A watched child never learns.  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
27. Learning is like rowing upstream:  not to advance is to drop back.  ~Chinese Proverb
28. People learn something every day, and a lot of times it's that what they learned the day before was wrong.  ~Bill Vaughan