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Steve Martin on learning
Author: Steve Martin“I did stand-up comedy for 18 years. Ten of those years were spent learning, four years were spent refining, and four years were spent in wild success. I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a byproduct. The course was more plodding than heroic.” -Steve Martin
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James Madison on learning
Author: James Madison“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
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Lillian Smith on learning
Author: Lillian Smith“When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.” -Lillian Smith
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Eartha Kitt on learning
Author: Eartha Kitt“I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.” -Eartha Kitt
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Bob Geldof on learning
Author: Bob Geldof“But if somebody dies, if something happens to you, there is a normal process of depression, it is part of being human, and some people view it as a learning experience etc.” -Bob Geldof
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William Hazlitt on learning
Author: William Hazlitt“Learning is its own exceeding great reward.” -William Hazlitt
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Louisa May Alcott on learning
Author: Louisa May Alcott“I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning how to sail my ship.” -Louisa May Alcott
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William Arthur Ward on learning
Author: William Arthur Ward“Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.” -William Arthur Ward
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Rose Kennedy on learning
Author: Rose Kennedy“Neither comprehension nor learning can take place in an atmosphere of anxiety.” -Rose Kennedy
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Karen Armstrong on learning
Author: Karen Armstrong“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
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Ellen DeGeneres on learning
Author: Ellen DeGeneres“I’d like to be more patient! I just want everything now. I’ve tried to meditate, but it’s really hard for me to stay still. I’d like to try to force myself to do it, because everybody says how wonderful meditation is for you, but I can’t shut my mind up. So patience and learning is…
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Carl Friedrich Gauss on learning
Author: Carl Friedrich Gauss“It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.” -Carl Friedrich Gauss
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E. O. Wilson on learning
Author: E. O. Wilson“So in my freshman year at the University of Alabama, learning the literature on evolution, what was known about it biologically, just gradually transformed me by taking me out of literalism and increasingly into a more secular, scientific view of the world.” -E. O. Wilson
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Jonathan Swift on learning
Author: Jonathan Swift“Words are but wind and learning is nothing but words ergo, learning is nothing but wind.” -Jonathan Swift
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Temple Grandin on learning
Author: Temple Grandin“The thing about being autistic is that you gradually get less and less autistic, because you keep learning, you keep learning how to behave. It’s like being in a play I’m always in a play.” -Temple Grandin
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Washington Irving on learning
Author: Washington Irving“One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.” -Washington Irving
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John W. Gardner on learning
Author: John W. Gardner“One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.” -John W. Gardner
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Thomas Fuller on learning
Author: Thomas Fuller“Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.” -Thomas Fuller
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Michel de Montaigne on learning
Author: Michel de Montaigne“Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.” -Michel de Montaigne
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Paul Wellstone on learning
Author: Paul Wellstone“I saw as a teacher how, if you take that spark of learning that those children have, and you ignite it, you can take a child from any background to a lifetime of creativity and accomplishment.” -Paul Wellstone
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Matthew Henry on learning
Author: Matthew Henry“Men of polite learning and a liberal education.” -Matthew Henry
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Steve Harvey on learning
Author: Steve Harvey“Failure is a great teacher, and I think when you make mistakes and you recover from them and you treat them as valuable learning experiences, then you’ve got something to share.” -Steve Harvey
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Alice Miller on learning
Author: Alice Miller“Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to the other person. In other words, to learn from the child, we must have empathy, and empathy grows as we learn.” -Alice Miller