| Quote | Author |
| The only thing that interferes with my learning, is my education. | Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955) |
| Mixing one's wines may be a mistake; but old and new wisdom mix admirably. | Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) |
| He who asks is a fool for five minutes but he who does not ask remains a fool forever. | Chinese Proverb |
| I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. | Confucius |
| If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself. | Confucius |
| Every day, in every way, I’m getting better and better. | Frank Spencer |
| What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions; but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones? | G. C. Lichtenberg (1742-1799) |
| One's first step in wisdom is to question everything. | G. C. Lichtenberg (1742-1799) |
| Time is a great teacher but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. | Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) |
| Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. | Helen Keller (1880-1968) |
| If a man has come to that point where he is so content that he says; I do not want to know any more; or do any more or be any more; he is in a state of which he ought to be changed into a mummy. | Henry Ward Beecher (1783-1860) |
| Much learning does not teach understanding. | Heraclitus |
| The most important of my discoveries has been suggested by my failures. | Humphrey Davy (1778-1829) |
| Focus on remedies, not faults. | Jack Nicklaus |
| Never be afraid of failure. The only way you can move from being a good leader to a very good one, even an excellent one, is by aiming higher. And that is bound to generate shortfalls. | John Adair |
| Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success. | John Keats (1795-1821) |
| I am a part of all that I have met. | Lord Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) |
| I am so convinced of the advantages of looking at mankind instead of reading about them, and of the bitter effects of staying at home with all the narrow prejudices of an Islander, that I think there should be a law amongst us to set our young men abroad for a term... | Lord Byron (1788-1824) |
| The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
| Lord Chesterfield (1694-1773) |
| I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship. | Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888). |
| A home is no home unless it contains food and the fire for the mind as well as for the body. For human beings are not so constituted that they can live without expansion. | Margaret Fuller (1810-1850). |
| By the time we hit fifty; we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously; but never ourselves. | Marie Dressler (1869-1934) |
| I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow. | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| Children have a natural antipathy to books - handicraft should be the basis of education. Boys and girls should be taught to use their hands to make something, and they would be less apt to destroy and be mischievous. | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| You are what you learn. | Peter Honey |
| Learning has a beginning, middle and no end. | Peter Honey |
| There are two things you should never delegate; your own learning and saying thank you. | Peter Honey |
| Learning is a process and an outcome. | Peter Honey |
| Feedback should kick start a virtuous domino effect. The feedback generates increased awareness; the increased awareness generates a desire to do something well and/or to set about improving something; the desire generates a personal development plan; the plan generates action; the action generates improved performance … and so on until the next bit of feedback starts the process again. | Peter Honey |
| The great end of learning is not knowledge but action. | Peter Honey |
| Practice is the best of all instructors. | Publilius Syrus |
| No one knows what he can do till he tries. | Publilius Syrus |
| Every artist was first an amateur.
| Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| The education of a man is never completed until he dies. | Robert E. Lee (1807-1870) |
| A college is a place where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed. | Robert G. Ingersoll (1833-1899) |
| There is no such whetstone to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is praise. | Roger Ascham (1515 - 1568) |
| Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground; but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world. | Samuel Butler (1835-1902). |
| All men make mistakes but only wise men learn from their mistakes. | Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965) |
| I am always ready to learn, but I do not always like being taught. | Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965) |
| I failed my way to success. | Thomas Edison (1847-1931) |
| Today is yesterday's pupil. | Thomas Fuller (1710-1790) |
| There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life. | Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895) |
| Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children; before they are aware of their own self-importance; learn so easily; and why older persons; especially if vain or important; cannot learn at all. | Thomas Szasz (born 1920) |
| Learn from the mistakes of others - you can't live long enough to make them all yourself. | Unknown |
| Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards. | Unknown |
| Some students drink deeply at the fountain of knowledge - others only gargle. | Unknown |
| Training that brings about no change is as effective as a parachute that opens on the first bounce. | Unknown |
| The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. | William Arthur Ward (1916-1977) |
| Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning. | William Arthur Ward (1916-1977) |