A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.
Karl Kraus

A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.
Will Rogers

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
Mark Twain

A new father quickly learns that his child invariably comes to the bathroom at precisely the times when he's in there, as if he needed company. The only way for this father to be certain of bathroom privacy is to shave at the gas station.
Bill Cosby

A person who learns to juggle six balls will be more skilled than the person who never tries to juggle more than three.
Marilyn vos Savant

A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again. But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether.
Roy H. Williams

A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.
P. L. Travers

Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying.
Johannes Tauler

Being a Jew, one learns to believe in the reality of cruelty and one learns to recognize indifference to human suffering as a fact.
Andrea Dworkin

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Kurt Vonnegut

Do the best you can in every task, no matter how unimportant it may seem at the time. No one learns more about a problem than the person at the bottom.
Sandra Day O'Connor

Every German child learns to speak English in school.
Cornelia Funke

Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there.
Don DeLillo

Everyone, when there's war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood.
Jean Giraudoux

Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say.
Raymond Chandler

Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
John Dewey

For a small child there is no division between playing and learning; between the things he or she does just for fun and things that are educational. The child learns while living and any part of living that is enjoyable is also play.
Penelope Leach

Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.
Friedrich Schiller

He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.
Walt Whitman

He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft.
James Russell Lowell