A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.

Chinua Achebe | Learning


Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.

Swift, Jonathan | Learning


Unknown to her the rigid rule, The dull restraint, the chiding frown The weary torture of the school, The taming of wild nature down.

Whittier, John Greenleaf | Learning


There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.

Beecher, Henry Ward | Learning


Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.

Horace | Learning


Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.

Disraeli, Benjamin | Learning


No day in which you learn something is a complete loss.

Eddings, David | Learning


If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.

Confucius | Learning


Each day is the scholar of yesterday.

Syrus, Publilius | Learning


You're always learning on different avenues and this is an opportunity for me to start on a fresh plate and start learning some other things that can really help me, that I need, and I want, to progress forward.

Elvis Stojko | Learning


Your work is first, learning is first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing.

Orson Scott Card | Learning


Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

Bill Gates | Learning


Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.

William S. Burroughs | Learning


Young children were sooner allured by love, than driven by beating, to attain good learning.

Roger Ascham | Learning


You teach best what you most need to learn.

Richard Bach | Learning


You should put time into learning your craft. It seems like people want success so quickly, way before they're ready.

Lucinda Williams | Learning


You see, that is it with music, you never stop learning.

Dennis Brown | Learning


You only stop learning when you quit.

Ruud Gullit | Learning


You make mistakes, but I don't have any regrets. I'm the kind of person who takes responsibility for it and deals with it. I learn from everything I do. I work very hard, I have so many things going on in my life. Get to know me and see who I am.

Kim Kardashian | Learning


You made a lot of mistakes, and you wrote a lot of crap. But it was all part of the learning process.

Cynthia Weil | Learning


You keep learning all the time.

Vanessa Paradis | Learning


You have to study your field and you have to find out how other people do it, and you have to keep working and learning and practicing and ultimately, you would be able to do it.

Theodore Sturgeon | Learning


You have to learn and keep learning.

Gil Scott-Heron | Learning


You have to keep your sanity as well as know how to distance yourself from it while still holding onto the reins tightly. That is a very difficult thing to do, but I'm learning.

Diahann Carroll | Learning


You have to grow thick skin and that only comes with time and learning.

Karlie Kloss | Learning


You go on these Internet blogs and people say the meanest things. I'm a normal person. Just because I'm in the spotlight doesn't mean I'm God's gift to the world. I'm learning and making mistakes just like every other 17-year-old girl out there.

Hayden Panettiere | Learning


You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.

Richard Branson | Learning


You cannot open a book without learning something.

Confucius | Learning


You can learn as much about the history from reading about the present as you can vice versa, that is learning about the present through history, which is what I do for a living.

Ken Burns | Learning


You can be self-empowered and still learning about how you think about things daily.

Tori Amos | Learning


You aren't learning anything when you're talking.

Lyndon B. Johnson | Learning


Yes. I did more research than I ever wanted to and saw some things I wish I didn't. I went on ride-alongs, spent time with Homicide, Cold Case, and SVU detectives, hung out in subways learning how to spot pervs and pick-pockets, viewed an autopsy, went to a police firing range, and witnessed court cases and I read, read, read.

Mariska Hargitay | Learning


Yes, it is a rehearsed show, yes, it was analogy of going to see a play at the theatre, where everything has to be in place and whole things, everything being works, all works together to get the best effect you know it's more like an actor learning a part.

John Deacon | Learning


Yes - it's the same in any other work - the more you massage your thinking the more capable I believe you are of expanding how you go about things and learning.

Siobhan Davies | Learning


Year by year we are learning that in this restless, strenuous American life of ours vacations are essential.

Ellsworth Huntington | Learning


Writing is learning to say nothing, more cleverly each day.

William Allingham | Learning


Words are but wind and learning is nothing but words ergo, learning is nothing but wind.

Jonathan Swift | Learning


Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.

Angelina Jolie | Learning


Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

William James | Learning


Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.

Josh Billings | Learning


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.

Wilma Rudolph | Learning


Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?

Bill Watterson | Learning


Why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth.

Will Rogers | Learning


Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.

Euripides | Learning


While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept apart from it. The danger is too great of thus learning to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery, and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit.

Lewis Carroll | Learning


While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

Leonardo da Vinci | Learning


Whether it's 18 years old or 40 years old, we think we know what's going on. But if you're lucky enough to continue the journey, its amazing how we keep learning how much we didn't know.

Joe Namath | Learning


When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.

Lillian Smith | Learning


When we think about online learning, it's such 'early days.' Bill Gates is a wildly smart insightful guy. Yet, even a guy as smart and insightful as that, 30 years ago can say things like,'Who's every going to need more than 640K of memory?'

Reed Hastings | Learning


When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals, he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized.

Ayn Rand | Learning


When I was first learning songs, I'd have a favorite song, and I'd take the chords and twist them around. I'd learn the chords and then play them backward. That was my first experimenting with writing a song.

Alicia Keys | Learning


When I was 8 years old, I knew nothing about martial arts. The coach told me I was talented with learning martial arts, and put me in a school.

Jet Li | Learning


When I started learning the cello, I fell in love with the instrument because it seemed like a voice - my voice.

Mstislav Rostropovich | Learning


When I left Bradford and got a phone call from Dave Parnaby asking 'did I want to come back in?', I was delighted to accept. The whole buzz at the club at the moment is great for someone like me who is still learning and wanting to hopefully go into management in my own right at some point.

Colin Cooper | Learning


When I have the time at home, I'll practice three or four hours a day. I have to. And I'm a late starter I started at age 17 and at age 51 I'm still learning.

Bruce Hornsby | Learning


Whatever the medium, there is the difficulty, challenge, fascination and often productive clumsiness of learning a new method: the wonderful puzzles and problems of translating with new materials.

Helen Frankenthaler | Learning


What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn't think I could lift another ounce of weight. What I learned is that we are always stronger than we know.

Arnold Schwarzenegger | Learning


What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?

James Madison | Learning


What matters to me is learning and growing, and getting to do what I love to do. As long as I can do that, I'm happy.

Jeremy Renner | Learning


What makes this story so remarkable is that throughout my early childhood I had ongoing learning difficulties, particularly in mathematics. I struggled to learn the multiplication table, and no matter how hard I tried, I simply couldn't remember 6 times 7 or 7 times 8.

Andrew Lo | Learning


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.

Chuck Grassley | Learning


What keeps you confident in a healthy way is knowing that everyone else around you is going to support you and teach you and you're going to learn from them. I just feel open to learning from people.

Elizabeth Olsen | Learning


What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically, having come from television.

J. J. Abrams | Learning


What I know about poker, you can fit into a thimble with room left over, but I'm learning.

Wilford Brimley | Learning


We're learning as we go. We're a lot smarter this time. We understand what it takes to mobilize away from the threat of a hurricane.

Ray Nagin | Learning


We're all like children. We may think we grow up, but to me, being grown up is death, stopping thinking, trying to find out things, going on learning.

Mary Wesley | Learning


Well, until this very day, I'm still learning.

Dennis Brown | Learning


Well, immediately we announced yesterday or the day before we're building, with my foundation, a youth tennis and learning center in Austin. I'd like to be hands on with that and not see it periodically.

Andy Roddick | Learning


Well, I think that part of being young is not exactly knowing why you do some of the things that you do. And it's by exploring your life or experimenting or making mistakes and learning from them hopefully that you start to forge an identity.

Stephen Chbosky | Learning


Wear your learning like your watch, in a private pocket and do not pull it out, and strike it, merely to show that you have one.

Lord Chesterfield | Learning


We wanted to solve robot problems and needed some vision, action, reasoning, planning, and so forth. We even used some structural learning, such as was being explored by Patrick Winston.

Marvin Minsky | Learning


We tried to have diplomas without learning, we tried to have jobs without work, we tried to have houses without savings, we tried to have government without responsibility.

Newt Gingrich | Learning


We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.

Lucy Maud Montgomery | Learning


We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.

Peter Drucker | Learning


We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

Martin Luther King, Jr. | Learning


We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.

Ted W. Engstrom | Learning


We learned about honesty and integrity - that the truth matters... that you don't take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules... and success doesn't count unless you earn it fair and square.

Michelle Obama | Learning


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 | Learning


We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. One becomes in some area an athlete of God.

Martha Graham | Learning


We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus but our ideas about Santa Claus change, mature and become more nuanced, whereas our ideas of God can remain at a rather infantile level.

Karen Armstrong | Learning


We have been learning since we were children how to make money, buy things, build things. The whole education system is set up to teach us how to think, not to feel.

Yakov Smirnoff | Learning


We have a lot of existing customers which are also considering Linux desktop migrations and rolling out some of these programs, so we're learning from them.

Miguel de Icaza | Learning


We do not learn and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.

Plato | Learning


We do a lot of shows for young people who have probably never been to the theater before and they are learning about the Holocaust, which unhappily, many of them do not know about.

Linda Lavin | Learning


We come to love not by finding a perfect person but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.

Sam Keen | Learning


We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.

Benjamin Jowett | Learning


We believe that if you put in place the mechanisms that allow for personal choice as far as Medicare is concerned, as well as the programs in Medicaid, that we can actually get to a better result and do what most Americans are learning how to do, which is to do more with less.

Eric Cantor | Learning


We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.

Stephen Covey | Learning


We are learning, too, that the love of beauty is one of Nature's greatest healers.

Ellsworth Huntington | Learning


Violence is a problem we all want to solve. I want to make sure that kids learn to deal with anger by learning how to talk with people to solve problems. Here in the United States Senate I want to make sure we have safe schools, safe neighborhoods and good things for kids to do after school!

Patty Murray | Learning


Under these conditions it is not astonishing that learning was highly prized in fact, my parents made sacrifices to be able to give their children a good education.

Simon van der Meer | Learning


TV is so different from the movies. It takes a lot of stamina because you work such long hours. It is really challenging. You are learning the next day's lines while you are shooting today's scenes. I found courage I never realised I had. I hope to do more.

Sharon Stone | Learning


Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.

Thomas Huxley | Learning


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

Abigail Van Buren | Learning


Travel provided many interesting experiences, but perhaps the most useful lesson I learned was that I really had no proficiency for learning the thousands of characters of the written Chinese language.

Eric Allin Cornell | Learning


Today when I think about diversity, I actually think about the word 'inclusion.' And I think this is a time of great inclusion. It's not men, it's not women alone. Whether it's geographic, it's approach, it's your style, it's your way of learning, the way you want to contribute, it's your age - it is really broad.

Ginni Rometty | Learning


To the Kenyan families, school doesn't really matter because none of them are going on to college. Almost all of drop out of school and so, they're spending their time learning things that are important to them.

Robert Sternberg | Learning


To summarize, the particular song a male sings, and the behavioral responses of females to song and morphological signals, are not genetically inherited in a fixed manner but are determined by learning early in life.

Peter R. Grant | Learning


To make no mistakes is not in the power of man but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

Plutarch | Learning


To make a kung fu film is like a dream come true, because I'm a big fan of kung fu movies and I'm learning kung fu for a long time.

Stephen Chow | Learning


To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.

Bruce Lee | Learning


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