„…I keep looking for one more teacher, only to find that fish learn from the water and birds learn from the sky.” (p.275)“

„There is more to be learned from any good teacher than the subject taught.“

—  Gene Wolfe American science fiction and fantasy writer 1931 - 2019

Volume 2, Ch. 1
Fiction, The Book of the Long Sun (1993–1996)

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

—  E.E. Cummings American poet 1894 - 1962

Collected Poems (1938) New Poems 22
Variante: I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing
than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

„Wise is the one who learns from another´s mistakes. Less wise is the one who learns only from his own mistakes. The fool keeps making the same mistakes again and again and never learns from them.“

—  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar spiritual leader 1956

Origine: Celebrating Silence: Excerpts from Five Years of Weekly Knowledge 1995-2000

„One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human. One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them.“

—  Alan Bennett, The History Boys

Origine: The History Boys

„I do feel one learns more from one's failures than from one's successes“

—  Moira Lister actress 1923 - 2007

Sunday Times interview (1983)

„Let the main object… to seek and to find a method of instruction, by which teachers may teach less, but learners learn more.“

—  John Amos Comenius Czech teacher, educator, philosopher and writer 1592 - 1670

„That a woman is presented as a teacher, as a prototype of piety, cannot amaze anyone who knows that piety or godliness is fundamentally womanliness. … from a woman you learn concern for the one thing needful, from Mary, sister of Lazarus, who sat silent at Christ’s feet with her heart’s choice: the one thing needful. P. 149“

—  Sören Kierkegaard Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism 1813 - 1855

1850s, An Upbuilding Discourse December 20, 1850

„Memory is a net; one finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook; but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.“

—  Oliver Wendell Holmes Poet, essayist, physician 1809 - 1894

The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (1858)

„I learn more from books than from people“

—  William Sleator Young adult science fiction novelist 1945 - 2011

Origine: The Beasties

„It's said that a wise person learns from his mistakes. A wiser one learns from others' mistakes. But the wisest person of all learns from others's successes.“

—  John C. Maxwell American author, speaker and pastor 1947

Origine: Leadership Gold: Lessons I've Learned from a Lifetime of Leading

„The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.“

—  Henry Ford American industrialist 1863 - 1947

„To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.“

—  James Joyce, Ulysses

Origine: Ulysses

„I usually learn more from the situations I hate than the ones I love.“

—  Wally Lamb, libro She's Come Undone

Origine: She's Come Undone

„In every page of David Hume, there is more to be learned than from Hegel's, Herbart's and Schleiermacher's complete philosophical works. - vol. II, p. 582 (as cited on p. 177 of Schopenhauer: A Biography)“

—  Arthur Schopenhauer, libro Il mondo come volontà e rappresentazione

The World as Will and Representation (1819; 1844; 1859)

„Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.“

—  Kenneth E. Boulding British-American economist 1910 - 1993

Kenneth Boulding (1971) "The diminishing returns of science" in: New Scientist. (March 25, 1971) Vol. 49, nr. 744. p. 682
1970s
Contesto: Perhaps the most difficult ethical problem of the scientific community arises not so much from conflict with other subcultures as from its own success. Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.

„We learn, when we learn, only from experience, and then we only learn from our mistakes. Our successes only serve to reinforce our superstitions.“

—  Arthur Jones (inventor) American inventor 1926 - 2007

The New High Intensity Training (2004)

„From one learn all.“

—  Virgil, Eneide

Originale: (la) Ab uno disce omnes.
Origine: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book II, Lines 65–66 (tr. Fairclough)

„A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.“

—  Bruce Lee Hong Kong-American actor, martial artist, philosopher and filmmaker 1940 - 1973

„If I were an animal, I would be a fish or a bird. It's the peace and beauty of ocean, the silent language of it. It seems like a womb, protective. The sky too. I love all colors, but blue mainly, because it's transparent like the water and the sky.“

—  Nastassja Kinski German actress 1961

As quoted in Denise Worrell (1989), Icons: Intimate Portraits.