Quotes - Learning

Please find listed below an ever growing list of my favourite quotes, that I hope you will enjoy browsing through and using them on your creative projects too!

A kind and compassionate act is often it's own reward - William John Bennett

A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face - Edward P. Morgan

Growth is the only evidence of life - John Henry

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world - Nelson Mandela

The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live  - John Berry

Dignity does not consist in possessing honours, but in deserving them - Aristotle

The beautiful things about learning is that no one can take it away from you - B.B. King

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre - Gail Godwin

The course of life is unpredictable . . . no one can write his autobiography in advance - Abraham Joshua Heschel

All I really need to know . . . I learned at Kindergarten - Robert Fulghum

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themeselves throughout their lives - Robert Maynard Hutchins

No person was ever honoured for what he received. Honour has been the reward for what he gave - Calvin Coolidge

Instruction does much, but encouragement does everything - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Every adult needs a child to teach, it's the way adults learn - Frank Clark

All me by nature desire knowledge - Aristotle

Imagination is the beginning of creation - George Bernard Shaw

Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success - Swami Sivandanda

In teaching others we teach ourselves - Proverb

Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the striggle to become what we want to be - Anne Byrhe

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire - William Butler Yeats

Laughter is the best medicine

Writing comes more easily if you have something to say - Sholem Asch

Patience is the best remedy for every trouble - Plautus

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises - Demosthenes

Wonder implies the desire to learn - Aristotle

There is a time to let things happen and a time to make things happen - Hugh Prather

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or self-confidence - Unknown

Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well - John W. Gardner

Learning is not attained by chance; it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence - Abigail Adams

Added November 12th, 2007

The greatest gift you can give somebody is your own personal development - Jim Rohn

You cannot speak that which you do not know.

You cannot share that which you do not feel.

You cannot translate that which you do not have.

And you cannot give that which you do not possess.

To give it and share it, and for it to be effective you first need to have it.

Good communication starts with good preparation.

                                                                - Jim Rohn