Wise Quotes
Inspirational & Informative famous quotes on Learning, Memory, Reading and Success.
“Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.” – Peter Drucker
“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.” - Alvin Toffler
“The ability to learn faster than your competitors may be the only sustainable competitive advantage.” – Arie de Geus, Management Strategist, Royal Dutch Shell
“We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.” – Peter Drucker
“Learning is a matter of intensity not elapsed time.” – Tom Peters
“How can you do new math with an old math mind?” – Charlie Brown /Peanuts
“Through learning we re-create ourselves. Through learning we become able to do something we were never able to do.” – Peter Senge
“If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.” – Derek Bok (former President of Harvard)
“Live to learn & you will learn to live.” – Portuguese proverb
“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty.” - Henry Ford
“1 in 4 people admit to suffering from ill health as result of the amount of information they now handle, despite agreeing that they need high levels of information to perform effectively.” – Dr. Paul Waddington
“Money is what fueled the industrial society. But in the informational society, the fuel, the power, is knowledge. One has now come to see a new class structure divided by those who have information and those who must function out of ignorance. This new class has its power not from money, not from land, but from knowledge.” – John Kenneth Galbraith (Harvard professor, one of the world’s most recognized economists.)
“If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.” – Benjamin Franklin
“Today, the greatest single source of wealth is between your ears. Today wealth is contained in brainpower, not brutepower.” – Brian Tracy.
“To keep up with the rapid pace of change, savvy training professionals are using accelerated learning techniques to satisfy the business world’s need for speed.” – Pittsburgh Business Times
“The goal of education is to replace an empty mind with an open mind.” – Malcolm Forbes
“The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.” – Chinese Proverb
“The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person’s determination.” – Tommy Lasorda
“The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.” – B.B. King
“Only the educated are free.” – Epictetus
“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.” – Mark Twain
”You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.” – Galileo
“If you can read this, thank a teacher.” – Anonymous teacher
“If you study to remember, you will forget, but, if you study to understand, you will remember.” – Unknown
“There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good; it can destroy bad principles and recreate good ones; it can lift men to angelship.” – Mark Twain
“Get over the idea that only children should spend their time in study. Be a student so long as you still have something to learn, and this will mean all your life.” – Henry L. Doherty
”I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.” – Eartha Kitt
”It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts.” – John Wooden
”A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.” - Chinese Proverb
”When the student is ready, the teacher appears.” - Buddhist Proverb
”Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.” - Mark Twain
”Man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.” - Oliver Wendell Holmes
”You learn something every day if you pay attention.” - Ray LeBlond
”Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.” - Alexander Pope
“Learning is like rowing upstream: not to advance is to drop back..” - Chinese Proverb
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” – Aristotle
“Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.” – Thomas Huxley
“I don’t think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.” – Abraham Lincoln
“Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.” – Chinese Proverb
“All the world is a laboratory to the inquiring mind.” - Martin H. Fischer
“I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.” -Winston Churchill
“The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.” - Mortimer Adler
“I am defeated, and know it, if I meet any human being from whom I find myself unable to learn anything.” - George Herbert Palmer
“I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me.” - Dudley Field Malone
“Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.” – Mark Twain
“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.” - Thomas Szasz
“Learning without thought is labor lost.” – Confucius
“The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.” - Henry S. Haskins
“We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.” - Lloyd Alexander
“You don’t understand anything until you learn it more than one way.” - Marvin Minsky
“The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.” - John Lubbock
“A person’s name is the sweetest sound in any language.” – Dale Carnegie
“People don’t care how much you know, until they know how much you care.” – John C. Maxwell
“Chance favors the prepared mind.” – Louis Pasteur
“The true art of memory is the art of attention.” – Samuel Johnson
“Attention is the stuff that memory is made of, and memory is accumulated genius.” – James Russell Lowell
“Your Mind is Like a Parachute … It Only Works When it is Open.”
“Imagination is More Important than Knowledge.” – Albert Einstein
“Learning is Remembering.” – Socrates
“The Soul Never Thinks without a Picture.” – Aristotle
“If you hear a voice within you say “you cannot paint” then by all means PAINT.” – Vincent Van Gogh
“Memory is a man’s real possession…In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.” - Alexander Smith
“I HEAR and I Forget. I SEE and I Remember. I DO and I Understand.” – Confucius
“They Know Enough Who Know How to Learn.” – Henry Adams
“The imagination equips us to perceive reality before it’s fully materialized.” – Mark Victor Hansen
“There is nothing noble in being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.” – Hindu Proverb
“The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.” – Vidal Sassoon
“I like thinking big. If you’re going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big.” – Donald Trump
“Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.” – Zig Ziglar
“What we think, we become.” – Buddha
“It’s OK to make mistakes. Mistakes are our teachers — they help us to learn.” – John Bradshaw
“Problems cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them.” – Albert Einstein
“Good timber does not grow with ease; the stronger the wind, the stronger the trees.” -J.W. Marriot
“Winning starts with beginning.” – Anonymous
“If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten.” -Anonymous
“You learn something every day if you pay attention.” - Ray LeBlond
“Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.” - Alexander Pope
“Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” – Gandhi
“Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough we must do.” – Goethe
“Learning is not a spectator sport.” – D. Blocher
“The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them.” – Mark Twain
