Learning

 

What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers.

– Martina Horner

 

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.

Lord Chesterfield

 

All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.

– Juvenal

 

Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient.

– Eugene S. Wilson

 

Never learn to do anything: if you don’t learn, you’ll always find someone else to do it for you.

– Mark Twain

 

Much learning doth make thee mad.

– Anonymous

 

Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell ’em, ‘Certainly I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it.

– Theodore Roosevelt

 

Learning is not compulsory… neither is survival.

– W. Edwards Deming

 

You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers. You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you.

– W. Somerset Maugham

 

We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.

– Malcolm Gladwell

 

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing you can do is keep your mind young.

– Mark Twain

 

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

– Abigail Adams

 

It is always in season for old men to learn.

– Aeschylus

 

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

– Sir Francis Bacon