Painful as it may be a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us - and those around us - more effectively. Look for the learning.

Learning is finding out what you already know.

Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.

Not to unlearn what you have learned is the most necessary kind of learning.

Some of the companies we helped start are names you know. An office supply company called Staples - where I'm pleased to see the Obama campaign has been shopping The Sports Authority which became a favorite of my sons. We started an early childhood learning center called Bright Horizons that First Lady Michelle Obama rightly praised.

As long as you live keep learning how to live.

These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle progress without compassion wealth without work learning without silence religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness.

If I am through learning I am through.

The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

I would fain grow old learning many things.

When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized.

We do not learn and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.

Why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth.

Each year has been so robust with problems and successes and learning experiences and human experienes that a year is a lifetime at Apple. So this has been ten lifetimes.

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.

A little learning is a dangerous thing but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.

It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.

A lot of the problems I had with fame I was bringing on myself. A lot of self-loathing a lot of woe-is-me. Now I'm learning to see the positive side of things instead of like 'I can't go to Kmart. I can't take my kids to the haunted house.'

No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.

Learning without thought is labor lost thought without learning is perilous.

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

Learning to trust is one of life's most difficult tasks.

The minute that you're not learning I believe you're dead.