Top 100 Not Learning Quotes
#1. I'm learning with the older that I get that some feelings are just universal and that I'm not the only one who hates their hair or their life at times.
Brie Larson
#2. But the ground of a man's culture lies in his nature, not in his calling. His powers are to be unfolded on account of their inherent dignity, not their outward direction. He is to be educated, because he is a man, not because he is to make shoes, nail, or pins.
William Ellery Channing
#3. If there is one lesson I've learned from failure and success, it's this. I am not the outcome. I am never the result. I am only the effort.
Kamal Ravikant
#4. I found in rules of mathematics a peace and a trust that I could not place in human beings. This sublimation was total and remained total.
Louise Bourgeois
#5. One must apply one's reason to everything here, learning to obey, to shut up, to help, to be good, to give in, and I don't know what else. I'm afraid I shall use up all my brains too quickly, and I haven't got so very many. Then I shall not have any left for when the war is over.
Anne Frank
#6. Learning not to crumple before these uncertainties fuels my resolve to print myself upon the texture of each day fully rather than forever.
Audre Lorde
#7. They are the best physicians, who being great in learning most incline to the traditions of experience, or being distinguished in practice do not reflect the methods and generalities of art.
Francis Bacon
#8. Not many are the moments in life, where the easiest choice also happens to be the best one.
Cherish and remember those moments, but do not let them become a habit, for the fruits that hard work reaps are irreplaceable.
Rosen Topuzov
#9. 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
#10. Until a person has failed significantly or missed the boat, they will not know how to hold the tension until the right moment or how to test the waters before pushing on.
Michael Meade
#11. And we can read - there is always the prospect of escape, through books."
"Books are not a means of 'escape', Meta! Books are a means of knowledge, and of learning how to cope with the future.
Joyce Carol Oates
#12. Cabot Searcy began to care about learning not for the sake of making good grades, but because he still wanted to change the world.
John Corey Whaley
#13. What cannot be learnt through education, training, and observation is learnt by experience;and learning through experience is the hardest and the best.For, experience is not inherited; earned.
Doctor Kesi
#14. You can get so caught up in learning all about reincarnation, you can get so caught up in learning about structures, fascinating though they may be, that you're not free; you're just studying a different textbook.
Frederick Lenz
#15. If you're an adult and you choose not to believe in science, fine, but please don't prevent your children from learning about it and letting them draw their own conclusions.
Bill Nye
#16. I learnt not to be desperate in bad times, and I am learning not to be bullish when times are good.
John Elkann
#17. Once you embrace unpleasant news, not as a negative but as evidence of a need for change, you aren't defeated by it. You're learning from it.
Bill Gates
#18. My number one goal was not getting 'A's' - and I proved it. I was a 'C' student. You have to be ready to learn. If you're not interesting in learning, it doesn't work. As I grew older and wanted to learn and desperately wanted inside information, learning was a lot easier.
Brian Lamb
#19. We are in the school [or mortality] and keep learning and we do not expect to cease learning while we live on earth; and when we pass through the veil, we expect still to continue to learn and increase our fund of information.
David A. Bednar
#20. You will not reap the fruit of individuality in your children if you clone their education.
Marilyn Howshall
#21. Do not lose heart. We were made for these times ... For years we have been learning, practicing, been in training for ... and just waiting to meet on this exact plain of engagement.
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
#22. Tolerance, meanwhile, is about learning how to be patient. It's about learning how to understand that people will not always be the best of themselves, but that you have to give them a chance.
E.M. Garver
#23. Being steeped in the process of learning and exploring keeps me from becoming too nervous. Partly it's about not getting bored.
Renee Fleming
#24. The aim of education. - Education: to discover but not merely to imitate. Learning techniques without inward experiencing can only lead to superficiality.
Bruce Lee
#25. Meditation is not a process of learning how to meditate; it is the very inquiry into what is meditation. To inquire into what is meditation, the mind must free itself from what it has learnt about meditation, and the freeing of the mind from what it has learnt is the beginning of meditation.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#26. I do not much believe in education. Each person ought to be his or her own model, however frightful that may be.
Albert Einstein
#27. Taming attachment,does not mean becoming cold and disinterested. On the contrary, it means learning to have a composed control over our mind through understanding
Anupama Garg
#28. From good examples we learn how to be. From bad examples we learn how not to be. An observant and willing student can learn from any circumstance.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#29. Learning and teaching are not symmetrical. They are not the flip sides of the same coin, in spite of the fact that almost all papers and conversations on education assume they are. The working assumption
Sugata Mitra
#30. Most risks we might not take if we could see what we would have to go through to reach our goal. Yet, we would never not take most risks if we knew the great learning experience and soul enrichment they would bring.
Linda Eyre
#31. The child intuitively comprehends that although these stories are unreal, they are not untrue ...
Bruno Bettelheim
#32. To ensure longterm failure is not an option, one must learn from many short-term failures.
Orrin Woodward
#33. A well-read fool is the most pestilent of blockheads; his learning is a flail which he knows not how to handle, and with which he breaks his neighbor's shins as well as his own. Keep a fellow of this description at arm's length, as you value the integrity of your bones.
Stanislaw Leszczynski
#34. On teacher education: induction into current mandates must not turn into seduction away from best practice.
Andy Hargreaves
#35. We do not learn from experience ... we learn from reflecting on experience.
John Dewey
#36. Learning happens in the minds and souls, not in the databases of multiple-choice tests.
Ken Robinson
#37. Teams, not individuals, are the fundamental learning unit in modern organizations. This is where the "rubber stamp meets the road"; unless teams can learn, the organization cannot learn.
Peter Senge
#38. Thinking you knew something was a sure way to blind yourself. It was not growing up that slowly applied brakes to learning (Mentats were taught) but an accumulation of "things I know." New
Frank Herbert
#39. I only have one child. But I am learning that there is a lot to being a parent that you did not expect.
Dee Snider
#40. One must not be negligent in learning. In the Lun Yu it says: "To study and not to think is darkness. To think without study is dangerous."
Takeda Nobushige
#41. [Science] has challenged the super-eminence of religion; it has turned all philosophy out of doors except that which clings to its skirts; it has thrown contempt on all learning that does not depend on it; and it has bribed the skeptics by giving us immense material comforts.
Katharine Fullerton Gerould
#42. We have to cross the boundary between knowing and not knowing many times before we achieve understanding.
David Hawkins
#43. Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
Socrates
#44. The Company of Wolves is about how society teaches young women to look at themselves, and what to be afraid of. It's about a girl learning that the world of sensuality and the unknown is not to be feared, that it's worth getting your teeth into.
Neil Jordan
#45. It is no exaggeration to say that genes are essential to nearly every aspect of memory and the process of learning; without them, learning itself would not exist.
Gary F. Marcus
#46. It is simply this: do not tire, never lose interest, never grow indifferent - lose your invaluable curiosity and you let yourself die. It's as simple as that.
Tove Jansson
#47. Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age; and if you understand that old age has wisdom for its food, you will so conduct yourself in youth that your old age will not lack for nourishment.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#48. My secret to survival has been embracing life's challenges and not letting them dictate my frame of mind or determine my fate ... Learning to stand strong in the face of challenge and adversity is the only way to get through the tough times.
Sandra Lee
#49. Not everything worth learning is summarized in book. Sometimes you've got to rely on instincts.
Samanthe Beck
#50. I am less blindly confident than I once was, for I have been learning a truer estimate of myself, my failings and limitations, in these dark days. I have learnt to hope that if there be a Judgment Day of some kind, God will not see us with our own eyes, nor judge us as we judge ourselves.
Vera Brittain
#51. You can't tell. That's something I'm learning here in N.Y.C: you have no fucking idea what people are really like. They're not even two-faced
they're, like, multiple personalities.
Jennifer Egan
#52. Learning to quit while you're not ahead, when the dull ooze of depression tells you things are not going to get any better, is one of the best financial and life skills you can master.
Martha Beck
#53. Predigested food' should be inscribed over every hall of learning as a warning to all who do not wish to lose their own personalities and their original sense of judgment ...
Emma Goldman
#54. Yet little by little, I was also becoming the girl who was learning to live with this, all of it, letting it weave together with everything else, the good and the bad, as life moved forward, because that's what life did, regardless of whether we were ready for it or not.
Donna Freitas
#55. I do not care a fig for any woman that knows even what an author means.
William Hazlitt
#56. If their students aren't learning, then they are not teaching. Adapt to global, auditory, tactile & visual learners.
Ace Antonio Hall
#57. It's strange, isn't it? You go on and on, or I do rather, seeing God knows what horrors and learning not to care or anyway not to care more than you need to do the job, and then something happens that gets right under your skin.
Pat Barker
#58. Ah, child and youth, if you knew the bliss which resides in the taste of knowledge, and the evil and ugliness that lies in ignorance, how well you are advised to not complain of the pain and labor of learning.
Christine De Pizan
#59. I always thought it was a question of achieving some permanent state of tranquillity ... but it's not. It's more like learning to surf. The waves keep rolling in, each different from the last, and you have to ride them, instead of getting pounded to bits.
Lisa Alther
#60. We merely want to live in peace with all the world, to trade with them, to commune with them, to learn from their culture as they may learn from ours, so that the products of our toil may be used for our schools and our roads and our churches and not for guns and planes and tanks and ships of war.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#61. Don't be afraid of losing, be afraid of playing a game and not learning something.
Dan Heisman
#62. Some of the choices you make might not always turn out to be the best ones, but at least you are learning as you go.
Elizabeth Berrien
#63. So great was the preference given to sacred over profane learning that Christianity had been in existence fifteen hundred years, and had not produced a single astronomer.
John William Draper
#64. Not only do we as individuals get locked into single-minded views, but we also reinforce these views for each other until the culture itself suffers the same mindlessness.
Ellen Langer
#65. There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience, and that is not learning from experience.
Archibald MacLeish
#66. Newton was a genius, but not because of the superior computational power of his brain. Newton's genius was, on the contrary, his ability to simplify, idealize, and streamline the world so that it became, in some measure, tractable to the brains of perfectly ordinary men.
Gerald Weinberg
#67. It's not just learning that's important. It's learning what to do with what you learn and learning why you learn things that matters.
Norton Juster
#68. When the Superior Man eats he does not try to stuff himself; at rest he does not seek perfect comfort; he is diligent in his work and careful in speech. He avails himself to people of the Tao and thereby corrects himself. This is the kind of person of whom you can say, 'he loves learning.'
Confucius
#69. Not to unlearn what you have learned is the most necessary kind of learning.
Antisthenes
#70. Letting go isn't about forgetting; it's about learning and moving on. It's making a choice to be strengthened by your past ... not strangled by it.
Steve Maraboli
#71. To be dogmatic about a cause you believe in at the age of 20 or 30 is not unusual. But to be dogmatic at age 55 or 60 shows a lack of any learning capacity.
Howard Fast
#72. I think we can question whether degrees are antediluvian. Online learning has flexibility. Why not master courses in energy, writing, communications, and engineering and get a credential?
Anant Agarwal
#73. We need to tell people not to be helpful. Trying to be helpful and giving advise are really ways to control others ... Advice, recommendations, and obvious actions are exactly what increase the likelihood that tomorrow will be just like yesterday.
Peter Block
#74. I am certain, from experience, of the immense advantage of strict account-keeping in early life. It is just like learning the grammar then, which when once learned need not be referred to afterwards.
William E. Gladstone
#76. Learning anything interesting?"
"Not really. Psychology sounds a lot more interesting than it actually is."
Dad looked at me over the paper. "I'm afraid that's the same with most things in life.
Holly Bourne
#77. Today, I feel stronger, learning to live within the natural cycles of a day and to not expect too much of myself. As women, we hold the moon in our bellies. It is too much to ask to operate on full-moon energy three hundred and sixty-five days a year. I am in a crescent phase.
Terry Tempest Williams
#78. We will not have failure - only success and new learning.
Queen Victoria
#79. Each time a divine incarnation comes to us, it is not to bring new truths or to establish a new religion but to remind us of what we have forgotten: that we are all one, and that we must live in harmony with this unity by learning to contribute to the joy and fulfillment of all.
Eknath Easwaran
#80. I'm finding that the older I get, it's not that I learn new things, it's more like I find out how much of what I know is common knowledge.
Sam Lipsyte
#81. The point is not knowing another person, or learning to love another person. The point is simply this: how tender can we bear to be?
Rebecca Wells
#82. Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if you do; for I shall not have my best warrior resigned to the service of a man who is fatter than Buddha and duller than the edge of a learning sword.
Seth Grahame-Smith
#83. Still, it is not perverse to wonder whether the spectacle of America, currently learning a lesson - one that conservatives should not have to learn on the job - about the limits of power to subdue an unruly world, has emboldened many enemies.
George Will
#84. During the days of segregation, there was not a place of higher learning for African Americans. They were simply not welcome in many of the traditional schools. And from this backward policy grew the network of historical black colleges and universities.
Michael N. Castle
#85. It is the mark of a truly educated man to know what not to read.
Ezra Taft Benson
#86. Learning emerges from discovery, not directives; reflection, not rules; possibilities, not prescriptions; diversity, not dogma; creativity and curiosity, not conformity and certainty; and meaning, not mandates.
Stephanie Pace Marshall
#87. Shift from being afraid of making a mistake to being afraid of not making a mistake. If you are not making any mistakes, you are not learning or growing
Susan Jeffers
#88. She thought about him all the time - not so much about Doug the individual, but rather about the nature of love, and the shock of learning how quickly it could disappear.
J. Courtney Sullivan
#89. I will quote Cioran (who is not yet a classic but will become one): "While they were preparing the hemlock, Socrates was learning a tune on the flute. 'What good will it do you,' they asked, 'to know this tune before you die?
Italo Calvino
#90. I think so much of what we learn when we get older is being comfortable in our own skin and learning what looks good, and not being so trend-centric.
Meghan Markle
#91. Professional development is a collective resource, not a personal prerogative. Peer engagement forges powerful links between teacher learning and student growth.
Laura Lipton
#92. Though it is evident, that not more than one age or people can deserve the censure of being more averse from learning than any other, yet at all times knowledge must have encountered impediments, and wit been mortified with contempt, or harassed with persecution.
Samuel Johnson
#93. It was my job not just to pluck the chickens but to eviscerate them. I hated that part. Nauseating and disgusting, but it had to be done. That's what I learned from my father and what I loved learning from him: that you do what you have to do.
Philip Roth
#94. Much learning does not teach understanding.
Heraclitus
#95. And in not learning the rules, I was free. I always say, you're either defined by the medium or you redefine the medium in terms of your needs.
Duane Michals
#96. Already she was learning that you must not follow a boy around when he had other things on his mind. If you did, he might get tired of being with you. You must just wait and be ready when he did want you.
Nancy Barnes
#97. Assume that you are part-hypocrite and part heedless, and you will not be far wrong.
Idries Shah
#98. I have a very steadfast tendency to parent myself, to monitor my development into the person I want to be. I try to keep the corruption minimal. And though I advocate learning from my mistakes as much as making mistakes, I also try and make sure my mistakes do not cost other people.
Fiona Apple
#99. People think of my entire image as a kid who lives a straight and narrow life, so I can feel myself not being able to act comfortably. I've been thinking that I want to go through some different life experiences and have been learning a lot while living with my other members.
Seohyun
#100. Book learning and accomplishment in the world mean nothing if you do not have compassion, Crispin.
Marguerite Poland
