You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.
Denis Waitley

Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.
Denis Waitley

It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.
Eric Hoffer

Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.
Mary Wollstonecraft

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
e. e. cummings

I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.
e. e. cummings

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

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

Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.
Truman Capote

You can never learn less, you can only learn more.
R. Buckminster Fuller

The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
Hippocrates

A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.
Hippocrates

Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.
Robert Fulghum

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

The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.
Joyce Brothers

In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate.
Rene Descartes

Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?
Clarence Darrow

Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
Alexander Pope

Those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.
Alexander Pope

Irish poets, learn your trade, sing whatever is well made, scorn the sort now growing up all out of shape from toe to top.
William Butler Yeats