Famous Learn Quotes



What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

Samuel Johnson

You can’t learn in school what the world is going to do next year.

Henry Ford

We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.

Will Rogers

Don’t limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

Rabindranath Tagore

There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish.

Alfred Adler

Books have led some to learning and others to madness.

Francesco Petrarca

Embrace failure as a stepping stone to success. Learn from your mistakes, adjust your course, and keep moving forward.

Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.

Robert Browning

The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.

Thomas Henry Huxley

The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.

Alexander Pope

Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.

Edward Gibbon

In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.

Laurence Sterne

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

Khalil Gibran

We must learn to regard people less in light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Single is the time when you learn to give yourself closure, confidence, and compliments. It’s not easy — but it’s the kind of strength no one can take away from you.

My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language.

Edward Gibbon

Health is worth more than learning.

Thomas Jefferson

As we age, we learn to appreciate the simple joys of life and find contentment in the present moment.

Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present to live better in the future.

William Wordsworth

Learn to obey before you command.

Solon

In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.

William Blake

Change is the catalyst for growth. Embrace it, learn from it, and let it propel you forward.

It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.

Henry David Thoreau

Learn to be pleased with everything with wealth, so far as it makes us beneficial to others with poverty, for not having much to care for, and with obscurity, for being unenvied.

Plutarch

Thou art a Man, God is no more. Thy own humanity learn to adore.

William Blake

Don't let setbacks define you. Use them as opportunities to learn, adapt, and come back stronger.

I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.

Walt Whitman

Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying.

Johannes Tauler

The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.

Charles Dickens

Embrace failure as a teacher, not a defeat. Learn from your mistakes and use them as stepping stones to success.

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

John Stuart Mill

Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.

Aristophanes

It is good to live and learn.

Miguel de Cervantes

Teachers don't just teach subjects; they teach students how to learn, grow, and thrive.

Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.

William Shakespeare

Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.

William Penn

Philosophy is written in this grand book — I mean the universe — which stands continually open to our gaze, but it cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language in which it is written. It is written in the language of mathematics, and its characters are triangles, circles, and other geometric figures, without which it is humanly impossible to understand a single word of it; without these, one is wandering about in a dark labyrinth.

Galileo Galilei

All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.

Samuel Johnson

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

Oscar Wilde

You should learn from your mistakes rather than repeating them.

Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.

Jonathan Swift

By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.

Mark Twain

Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game.

Winston Churchill

Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.

Edmund Burke

Single is the time when you learn that solitude doesn’t have to mean loneliness. It can mean safety, clarity, and that deep breath you didn’t know you needed.

Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.

Thomas Jefferson

Being single teaches you how to be emotionally fluent — how to sit with yourself, understand your patterns, and name what you feel without running from it. You learn that self-love isn’t a slogan; it’s a daily practice of showing up. In the stillness, you notice where you’ve healed and where you still ache. That’s not failure — that’s honesty. And honesty is the soil where real love grows later.

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.

Charles Dickens

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

Benjamin Franklin

Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life.

Joseph Conrad

The way to learn to do things is to do things. The way to learn a trade is to work at it. Success teaches how to succeed. Begin with the determination to succeed, and the work is half done already.

Henry Ford

One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it… and the journey is always towards the other soul.

D. H. Lawrence

Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

Novalis

I learnt from Hussein how to achieve victory while being oppressed.

Mahatma Gandhi

If we help an educated man’s daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? – not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?

Virginia Woolf

You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.

Jane Austen

No habit or quality is more easily acquired than hypocrisy, nor any thing sooner learned than to deny the sentiments of our hearts and the principle we act from: but the seeds of every passion are innate to us, and nobody comes into the world without them.

Bernard Mandeville

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

Henry Ford

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

Joseph Joubert

There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.

Michel de Montaigne

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