Top 100 Learning More Quotes
#1. I brought a Border Collie back home to Vancouver from Wales - where some of my ancestors are from - and needed to challenge him in other ways than just being my pet. So I investigated sheep herding and took a few lessons, and decided I was probably learning more than my dog!
Jane Siberry
#2. When faced with structural injustice, especially in the form of oppressive military occupations, I have a tendency get a little worked up. So I was interested in learning more about the complicated conflict and decided I would lend some of my time and energy to do so.
Adam Beach
#3. There are also several practical aspects to learning more about
our eternal home. Having a better perspective on the purpose of
our lives helps us to handle difficult times better. It helps us focus
on what is truly important. It also helps us to enjoy this life more
fully.
Vance C. Kessler
#4. I'm interested in learning more about myself and what I value in myself and letting that be the beautiful part of me, rather than putting on the makeup or wearing the right designer.
Jessica Simpson
#5. We are learning more as we interrogate or have discussions with Iraqi scientists and people within the Iraqi structure, that perhaps he destroyed some, perhaps he dispersed some. And so we will find them.
George W. Bush
#6. I wish I didn't have daily problems to deal with, so that I could just concentrate on learning more, every single day.
Agnes Denes
#7. If we've been a little more successful than other people, is because we always realised that the school of life was always open, and if you were not learning more you are falling behind.
Charlie Munger
#8. I really hope that we'll have a sustainable future on this planet, I really do. So I probably geek out mostly about learning more about how potentially we can hopefully make that happen, hopefully we're not too far lost.
Ellen Page
#9. I like guitar. It just turned out that it's the instrument I learned to play. I have a lot of respect for it, and I'm learning more and more every day. For me, the classic band setup - guitars, drums, bass - will stay fresh forever. I don't know. I'm still into it.
Mac DeMarco
#10. Jesus taught that spiritual maturity is never an end in itself. Maturity is for ministry! We grow up in order to give out. It is not enough to keep learning more and more. We must act on what we know and practice what we claim to believe.
Rick Warren
#11. So I'm just learning more and more that circumstances can be very different from place to place but culture is universal. you know, humans do things the way humans do things, and that doesn't change whether those humans are in Zambia or they're in England or they're in America.
Alex Day
#12. Within the last thirty years, the United States under the reign of market fundamentalism has been transformed into a society that is more about forgetting than learning, more about consuming than producing, more about asserting private interests than democratic rights.
Henry A. Giroux
#13. There is such a thing as looking through a person's eyes into the heart, and learning more of the height, and breadth, and depth of another's soul in one hour than it might take you a lifetime to discover, if he or she were not disposed to reveal it, or if you had not the sense to understand it.
Anne Bronte
#14. I needed more knowledge in rigging and knotting. I started collecting books on knots and really learning more and more. That's how it started. And also in magic, of course. With a piece of rope, you can do magic.
Philippe Petit
#15. The fool multitude, that choose by show, not learning more than the fond eye doth teach.
William Shakespeare
#16. What a mystery we are to ourselves, even as we go on, learning more, sorting it out a little. The further on we go, the more meaning there is, but the less articulable. You live your life, and the older you get - the more specificity you harvest - the more precious becomes every ounce and spasm.
Gregory Maguire
#17. When I was in film school, I was learning more theory than practice.
Louis Leterrier
#18. I was extremely curious growing up. I taught myself how to sew, French braid, and cook. When I wasn't creating things with my hands, I was learning more about tech. I was experimenting with email at nine, had my first cell phone at 13, and was truly obsessed with the Internet as a teenager.
Brit Morin
#19. I'm learning more and more that love plus attachment equals pain.
Lisa Bonet
#20. Education is learning more than it is being taught. It's the chemistry of curiosity exposed to information. In that sense all of life is potentially school. And even I can pass that.
Bob Guccione Jr.
#21. My mind begins to seem like a video game: I can either play it intelligently, learning more in each round, or I can be killed in the same spot by the same monster, again and again.
Sam Harris
#22. I can explain how a person with autism thinks. I am very, very interested in how people think. It's been a gradual process of learning more and more about how my thinking process is different. You know it's bottom up - you take specific examples to make concepts and then I put them in categories.
Temple Grandin
#23. I get scared easily, so I'm not one for just sitting down with a bowl of popcorn and watching horror stories. But, I mean, I'm learning more. Maybe one day I'd like to be able to watch them.
Taissa Farmiga
#24. Sucked into the well of knowledge, you could only plummet, learning more and more, but not getting any happier.
Margaret Atwood
#25. A man, though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind.
Sophocles
#26. By learning more, by doing more, by becoming more, and by creating a common vision, a leader is a person who can inspire others to change for the better.
Debasish Mridha
#27. When you take the time to understand why your parents did the things they did, you stand a good chance of learning more about your own behavior.
Lisa Ling
#28. A coquette is a young lady of more beauty than sense, more accomplishments than learning, more charms not person than graces of mind, more admirers than friends, mole fools than wise men for attendants.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#29. Dartmouth is such a special college with its rich history, dedicated student body, and, as I've been learning more recently, colorful customs.
Wendy Kopp
#30. I believe in always being open to learning more through exploration of everything available and following one's sense of curiosity, creativity, and playfulness.
Jay Woodman
#31. Narrative understanding is a large part of the ability to connect with, understand, and have compassion for all of us engaged in learning more about being human.
Leah C. Fowler
#32. Generally in life, knowledge is acquired to be used. But school learning more often fits Freire's apt metaphor: knowledge is treated like money, to be put away in a bank for the future.
Seymour Papert
#33. I am a huge consumer of social networks, and I utilize Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn. I'm interested and am learning more about Tumblr and other visually dominant sites.
James G. Stavridis
#34. We are learning more about the humanity of the unborn child. Science and truth support the prolife movement.
Candice S. Miller
#35. What many men desire
that 'many' may be meant By the fool multitude that choose by show, Not learning more than the fond eye doth teach, Which pries not to th' interior, but like the martlet Builds in the weather on the outward wall, Even in the force and road of casualty.
William Shakespeare
#36. Just when you think you know something, it gets turned around and challenged in some way. But those changes are welcome because you end up learning more.
Jennifer Beals
#37. One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.
Washington Irving
#38. I'd love to go to fashion week! I'm learning more about designers, thanks to 'Pretty Little Liars' costume designer, Mandi Line.
Lucy Hale
#39. We're learning more about Osama bin Laden. His father was married 16 times, and he has five wives. I think we're getting to the root of his intense anger. And they say bin Laden never spends the night in the same place twice. No, wait a minute, that's Clinton.
David Letterman
#40. The great thing about Coulson is that he's a little bit like a party game, where the next person who gets ahold of him gets to write another sentence. I'm constantly learning more and more about the guy.
Clark Gregg
#41. One of my objectives is learning more than is absolutely necessary.
Jules Verne
#42. I don't take roles that are 'just another role.' I'm interested in learning more about myself and about humanity. So it should change you by the time it's done.
Brie Larson
#43. I'm learning more and more to share creativity with the crew and actors. A film crew is more powerful if you listen to them, but it does make my job more tough because I have to listen.
Denis Villeneuve
#44. Learning more truth is a poor and cheap substitute for stopping and putting into action the truth already learned
Charles R. Swindoll
#45. Philosophy abounds more than philosophers, and learning more than learned men.
William Benton Clulow
#46. Sometimes it is the methods of learning, more so, than what is learned, that is useful!
Garrett McCoy
#47. What changes your life is not learning more. What changes your life is making decisions & using your personal power & taking action.
Tony Robbins
#48. Something I've really enjoyed learning more about is course design.
Ernie Els
#49. I'm learning more about life when I'm playing too, and writing music. I'm learning more about life, the connection.
Wayne Shorter
#50. The director's job is full of all sorts of annoyances and details - like how many cars are on the street. Ugh. I don't want it. I like my gig. And I feel that for the next 30 years or so I can keep learning more about it.
Tyne Daly
#51. Somewhere during the 'Next to Normal' Broadway run, I found myself learning more about myself onstage than in real life, and I truly realized the beautiful, tremendous, extraordinary gift that is performing.
Jennifer Damiano
#52. It is so shocking to find out how many people do not believe that they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult.
Frank Herbert
#53. Some days I am more wolf than woman, and I am still learning how to stop apologizing for my wild.
Nikita Gill
#54. As we grow up, nothing changes more than the definition of loss.
Saleem Sharma
#55. The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
Voltaire
#56. Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us - and those around us - more effectively. Look for the learning.
Louisa May Alcott
#57. Professional/personal coaching addresses the whole person - with an emphasis on producing action and uncovering learning that can lead to more fulfillment, more balance, and a more effective process for living.
Laura Whitworth
#58. We presuppose two things: that there is yet to be learned infinitely more than is now known, and that man can learn it.
John W. Campbell
#59. Effective listening is more than simply avoiding the bad habit of interrupting others while they are speaking or finishing their sentences. It's being content to listen to the entire thought of someone rather than waiting impatiently for your chance to respond.
Richard Carlson
#60. Getting well is not the only goal. Even more important is learning to live without fear, to be at peace with life and ultimately death.
Bernie Siegel
#61. You're headed in the right direction when you realize the customer viewpoint is more important than the company viewpoint. It's more productive to learn from your customers instead of about them.
John Romero
#62. Since any effort always translates into more learning about a particular subject, we logically believe that we can determine our success in a linear fashion, but this doesn't happen because our self-image always filters our perception of reality.
Robin Sacredfire
#63. One of the gifts of parenthood is that it forces you to be a bit more conscious about it, if only because you quickly realize that those kids are learning from your every action.
Mark Deklin
#64. You learned this," Kabsal said, lifting up her drawing of Jasnah, "from a book."
"Er ... yes?"
He looked back at the picture. "I need to read more.
Brandon Sanderson
#65. The best poetry has its roots in the subconscious to a great degree. Youth, naivety, reliance on instinct more than learning and method, a sense of freedom and play, even trust in randomness, is necessary to the making of a poem.
May Swenson
#66. Knowledge, learning, talents are not necessarily connected with sound moral and political principles ... And eminent abilities, accompanied with depravity of heart, render the possessor tenfold more dangerous in a community.
Noah Webster
#67. Perhaps for the first time in history, human-kind has the capacity to create far more information than anyone can absorb; to foster far greater interdependency than anyone can manage, and to accelerate change far faster than anyone's ability to keep pace.
Peter Senge
#68. Beautiful actors are learning what beautiful actresses like Charlize Theron discovered a while ago - that they get taken more seriously when they trash the same beauty that got them taken seriously to begin with.
Steve Erickson
#69. The professor argues against measuring effectiveness in the shallow short-term in the "fierce humanities," for teaching that seeks not merely learning, but unlearning, that seeks to unsettle knowledge and assumptions in ways more fundamental than any exam can or should test.
Cary Nelson
#70. People always ask me if I could live in any other era what would it be, and I tell them none! I feel so lucky to live in an age where technology has changed and continues to change and make life so much more exciting. It keeps everyone young and constantly learning new things.
Nina Garcia
#71. I'm learning that everything doesn't always come back the way you send it. Sometimes, love is more brick and less boomerang.
Rudy Francisco
#72. Learning is knowledge and knowledge is freedom and power. He knew that. He had forgotten that, somehow. But he knew it once more.
Oliver Bowden
#73. Okay, so it's like each of these books is a mystery. Every book is a mystery. And if you read all of the books ever written, it's like you've read one giant mystery. And no matter how much you learn, you keep on learning so much more you need to learn.
Sherman Alexie
#74. The more involved you are, the more significant your learning will be.
Stephen Covey
#75. Learning lessons is a little like reaching maturity. You're not suddenly more happy, wealthy, or powerful, but you understand the world around you better, and you're at peace with yourself. Learning life's lessons is not about making your life perfect, but about seeing life as it was meant to be.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
#76. Don't be a slave to style. Don't take more from the world than you're willing to give back. And learn to undo the perceptions-so heavily promoted by the media-that shopping is a form of therapy and that a purchase is nothing but a victory or a gain.
Thanissaro Bhikkhu
#77. If the soul has food for study and learning, nothing is more delightful than an old age of leisure.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#78. Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty.
Roger Ascham
#79. Doctoral training is devoted almost entirely to learning to do research, even though most Ph.Ds who enter academic life spend far more time teaching than they do conducting experiments or writing books.
Derek Bok
#80. Education must prepare students to be independent, self-reliant human beings. But education, at its best, also must help students go beyond their private interests, gain a more integrative view of knowledge, and relate their learning to the realities of life.
Ernest L. Boyer
#81. I was never given any hand-outs. I started at the bottom and was very good at finding people who knew more than me and learning from them.
Simon Cowell
#82. Learning about issues such as sustainability and locavorism are things that you need to have as part of you as a chef because it will make you cook more delicious food.
Rene Redzepi
#84. Nothing could be more beneficial for even the most zealous searcher for knowledge than his being in fact most learned in that very ignorance which is peculiarly his own; and the better a man will have known his own ignorance, the greater his learning will be.
Nicholas Of Cusa
#85. The pleasures arising from thinking and learning will make us think and learn all the more. 1153a 23
Aristotle.
#86. 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
#87. If we [the USA] don't innovate in education, it's literally going to mean less people get to go have that education at a time when more people are going to want it. We've got to put courses out on the Web, we've got to put interactive learning out on the Web.
Bill Gates
#88. The more you know, the more you don't know," the further you go in your training, learning, and experience as a yoga teacher, the more you'll realize that there's an infinite universe of knowledge and wisdom to bring to the practice.
Mark Stephens
#89. I am defined by my curiosity and thirst for learning. I buy more books than I can finish. I sign up for more online courses than I can complete. I fundamentally believe that if you are not learning new things, you stop doing great and useful things.
Ashwin Sanghi
#90. 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.
Andrea Jung
#91. No art or learning is to be pursued halfheartedly ... and any art worth learning will certainly reward more or less generously the effort made to study it.
Murasaki Shikibu
#92. The first object of any act of learning, over and beyond the pleasure it may give, is that it should serve us in the future. Learning should not only take us somewhere; it should allow us later to go further more easily.
Ted Sizer
#93. There is a technique, a knack, for thinking, just as there is for doing other things. You are not wholly at the mercy of your thoughts, any more than they are you. They are a machine you can learn to operate.
Alfred North Whitehead
#94. My learning curve has had more squiggles than I counted on.
Rodney Ross
#95. I am learning to be more vulnerable and open on stage. This comes with the development of my acting abilities.
Ben Heppner
#96. It's important to remember that school is about our students, not us, so the more we can empower them to be in control of their learning, the better.
Starr Sackstein
#97. A possibility of continuing progress is opened up by the fact that in learning one act, methods are developed good for use in other situations. Still more important is the fact that the human being acquires a habit of learning. He learns to learn.
John Dewey
#98. Learning power comprises both literacy and numeracy, and is ultimately more fundamental than either of them.
Guy Claxton
#99. Your education never stops and college is just the beginning. You come out of college with a huge advantage in that you've ideally and more times than not you've come out with a love of learning and that's what matters above all.
David McCullough
#100. People should accept being single, because those are the moments you can really focus on yourself, and learning who you are. Then when you get in a relationship, you will be stronger and have a little bit more self-awareness, self-love, and the other ingredients for a healthy relationship.
Lauren London
