
Intended for:
Use during training sessions and presentations.
Training course contents:
A two page document of ‘learning’ quotes from famous people can be downloaded from the link at the bottom of this page, or you can follow the notes below.
The wisest mind has something yet to learn – George Santayana
I keep six honest serving men (they taught me all I knew): their names are What and Why and When and How and Where and Who – Rudyard Kipling
The learning is in the wobbles – Dave Meier
You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives – Clay P. Bedford
It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts – John Wooden
If we learned how to walk and talk the way we are taught how to read and write – everybody would limp and stutter. – Mark Twain
You learn something every day if you pay attention – Ray LeBlond
Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere – Chinese Proverb
I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught. – Winston Churchill
That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you’ve understood all your life, but in a new way – Doris Lessing
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty – Henry Ford
The only truly educated person is the one who has learned how to learn – Carl Rogers
I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me – Dudley Field
Malone I have never let my schooling interfere with my education – 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
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
What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers – Martina Horner
The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn – Henry S. Haskins
The future of work will consist of learning a living – Marshall McLuhan
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
Learning is a process not an event – Elliott Masie
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell ’em, ‘Certainly I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it – Theodore Roosevelt
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
The ability to learn faster than your competitors may be the only sustainable competitive advantage – Arie de Geus
If you can reflect about what you’ve learned today – and then write it down – it’s yours to keep tomorrow. If you practice it tomorrow, it’s yours to keep – Harry X. Tudas
Minds are like parachutes – they only function when open. Thomas Dewar
It’s what we think we know that keeps us from learning. Claude Bernard
Tell me, and I’ll forget. Show me, and I may remember. Involve me, and I’ll understand . Chinese Proverb
The best learning happens in real life with real problems and real people and not in classrooms. Charles Handy
An organization’s ability to learn and translate that learning into action is the ultimate competitive advantage. Jack Welch
Objectives:
These learning quotes add interest to the session and emphasises key points.