personal development on Learning

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.

The best learning I had came from teaching.

The bottom line is this: never grow complacent. Never grow tired of learning. As soon as we stop learning we lose the capacity to grow and mature in our work and our relationships. This continual lear...

That learning which thou gettest by thy own observation and experience, is far beyond that which thou gettest by precept; as the knowledge of a traveler exceeds that which is got by reading.

“Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy.”

The eight laws of learning are explanation, demonstration, imitation, repetition, repetition, repetition, repetition, repetition.

One of the fastest ways to learn a language is by immersion . This term can mean a few different things, but the basic idea in all of them is that you are exposed to that language in your social inte...

Ancora imparo. Yet I am still learning.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty.

The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.

A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.

Repetitio mater studiorum est. (Repetition is the mother of learning.)

Peter Drucker suggests that we should always sustain two streams of learning and self-improvement. And though he is speaking specifically about work and career, what he says is equally applicable whet...

Change is the end result of all true learning.

Such an intellectualist model of the human person-one that reduces us to mere intellect-assumes that learning (and hence discipleship) is primarily a matter of depositing ideas and beliefs into mind-c...

In ancient Judaism, discipleship was taken very seriously. It was taken so seriously that eager disciples would ty to follow their rabbi (teacher) everywhere they went. Why? Because they wanted to see...

The late comedian Sam Levenson enjoyed sharing funny anecdotes about his childhood, especially his early school days. One of his favorite stories was about his first day of school, when his overly pro...

Is life not full of opportunities for learning love? Every man and woman every day has a thousand of them. The world is not a playground; it is a schoolroom. Life is not a holiday, but an education. A...

One of the reasons failure can be so crushing is that we set goals of success, instead of improvement and learning.

Every now and then it shows through the clouds that are moving across its face. One moment it looks like the eye of a hawk in profile. The next it looks like the eye at the top of the pyramid on a dol...

B lessed Lord, who caused all holy Scriptures to be written for our learning: Grant us so to hear them, read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them, that we may embrace and ever hold fast the blessed ...

One who is afraid of asking questions is ashamed of learning.

Have you ever wondered the impact noise can have on our cognitive ability? Psychologist Arlene Bronzaft was curious to find out. Studying Public School 98 on the northern tip of Manhattan, Bronzaft fo...

You know by instinct that it is impossible to “teach” democracy, or citizenship or a happy married life . . . They come, not from a course, but from a teacher; not from a curriculum, but from a human ...

“We learn from failure, not from success!”

Learn to understand more by not understanding than by understanding.

"The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go."

We learn to live by living together with others, and by living like them—a process which has disadvantages as well as blessings.

There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring.

The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.