Learning Organization Quotes
Top 30 Learning Organization Quotes
No 1 (Best quote!)![Learning Organization Quotes Learning Organization Quotes](images/quotes-einstein.jpg)
Once you stop learning, you start dying.
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955),
German-born American scientist, pictured right.
No 2![Learning Organization Quotes Learning Organization Quotes](images/quotes-confucius.jpg)
I hear and I forget; I see and I remember; I do and I understand.
- Confucius (551-479 BC) Chinese philosopher,
pictured right.
No 3![Learning Organization Quotes Learning Organization Quotes](images/quotes-gates.jpg)
Success is a lousy teacher.
-Bill Gates (1955- ), co-founder of Microsoft, pictured
right.
Gates also comments:
It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure. ![Learning Organization Quotes Learning Organization Quotes](images/quotes-hamel.jpg)
No 4
To create the future, a company must unlearn some of its past.![Learning Organization Quotes Learning Organization Quotes](images/quotes-prahalad.jpg)
- Gary Hamel, pictured right above, and
C. K. Prahalad, pictured right, in
Competing for the
Future (1996)
No 5![Learning Organization Quotes Learning Organization Quotes](images/quotes-handy.jpg)
Thinking the unthinkable is a way of getting the wheel of learning moving.
- Charles Handy, pictured right,in The Age of Unreason (1989)
No 6![Learning Organization Quotes Learning Organization Quotes](images/quotes-senge.jpg)
Organizations where people continually expand their capacity to create the results they truly desire (definition
of a learning organization).
- Peter Senge, pictured right, in The Fifth Discipline
(1990).
No 7![Learning Organization Quotes Learning Organization Quotes](images/quotes-lao.jpg)
The inferior man seeks to put the blame on other persons, the superior man seeks the error within himself.
- Lao Tzu (c604-c531 BC), Chinese
philosopher, pictured right.
![Learning Organization Quotes Learning Organization Quotes](images/quotes-follett.jpg)
Mary Parker Follett (1868-1933), pictured right, the
American management expert, agrees:
Nothing stultifies one more than being blamed.
No 8![Learning Organization Quotes Learning Organization Quotes](images/quotes-perls.jpg)
Learning is the discovery that something is possible.
- Fritz Perls (1893-1970)
German-born American psychotherapist, pictured right.
No 9![Learning Organization Quotes Learning Organization Quotes](images/quotes-ford.jpg)
There is no disgrace in honest failure; there is disgrace in fearing to fail.
- Henry Ford (1863–1947), American car manufacturer,
pictured right.
Other thinkers also comment:
![Learning Organization Quotes Learning Organization Quotes](images/quotes-cicero.jpg)
Any man can make mistakes but only an idiot persists in his error.
- Cicero (106-43 BC), the Roman
philosopher and politician, pictured right.
![Learning Organization Quotes Learning Organization Quotes](images/quotes-wilde.jpg)
Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.
- Oscar Wilde, pictured right (in his play Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892)
![Learning Organization Quotes Learning Organization Quotes](images/quotes-wittgenstein.jpg)
If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
(1889-1951), Austrian-born British philosopher, pictured right.
![Learning Organization Quotes Learning Organization Quotes](images/quotes-keller.jpg)
Do not think of today’s failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow.
- Helen Keller (1880-1968), American
campaigner for the disabled, pictured right.
![Learning Organization Quotes Learning Organization Quotes](images/quotes-skinner.jpg)
A failure is not always a mistake; it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real
mistake is to stop trying.
- B.F Skinner (1904-90),
American psychologist, pictured right
No 10![Learning Organization Quotes Learning Organization Quotes](images/quotes-salinger.jpg)
How do you know what you’re doing till you do it?,
(Holden Caulfield in the 1951 novel The
Catcher in the Rye)
- J.D. Salinger (1919-2010), pictured right, American writer.
No 11![Learning Organization Quotes Learning Organization Quotes](images/quotes-patton.jpg)
When everybody agrees, somebody is not thinking.
- George Patton (1885-1945), American World War Two general, pictured right.
No 12![Learning Organization Quotes Learning Organization Quotes](images/quotes-graham.jpg)
Some questions don’t have answers which is a terribly difficult lesson to learn.
- Katharine Graham (1917-2001), boss of the
Washington Post 1963-79, pictured right.
![Learning Organization Quotes Learning Organization Quotes](images/quotes-bennis.jpg)
No 13
Leadership creates a commonwealth of learning, and that, in turn is what effective organizations
are![Learning Organization Quotes Learning Organization Quotes](images/quotes-nanus.jpg)
- Warren Bennis ,pictured right above, and Burt
Nanus, pictured right, in Leaders (1985)
No 14
Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
-Bill Gates (1955- ), co-founder of Microsoft, pictured
right.
No 15![Learning Organization Quotes Learning Organization Quotes](images/quotes-james.jpg)
Test every concept by the question: what sensible difference to anybody will its truth make?
- William James (1842-1910),
American psychologist and philosopher, pictured right.
No 16![Learning Organization Quotes Learning Organization Quotes](images/quotes-augustine.jpg)
We learn better in a free spirit of curiosity than under fear and compulsion.
- St. Augustine (354-430),
Algerian philosopher , pictured right.
No 17![Learning Organization Quotes Learning Organization Quotes](images/quotes-gandhi.jpg)
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
- Mahatma ( Mohandas)
Gandhi (1869-1948) Indian leader and philosopher, pictured right.
No 18![Learning Organization Quotes Learning Organization Quotes](images/quotes-disraeli.jpg)
Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action. We cannot learn men from books,
- Benjamin Disraeli (1804–81), British Prime
Minister, pictured right.
No 19![Learning Organization Quotes Learning Organization Quotes](images/quotes-confucius.jpg)
Learning without thought is labour lost; thought without learning is perilous.
- Confucius (551-479 BC) Chinese philosopher,
pictured right.
No 20![Learning Organization Quotes Learning Organization Quotes](images/quotes-tennyson.jpg)
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
(from a 1842 poem Locksley Hall)
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-92), pictured right, English poet.
No 21![Learning Organization Quotes Learning Organization Quotes](images/quotes-napoleon.jpg)
You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war,
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821), pictured
right, French leader.
No 22![Learning Organization Quotes Learning Organization Quotes](images/quoteswashbussuc24.jpg)
We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors.
- George Washington (1732-99), pictured right,
American president.
No 23![Learning Organization Quotes Learning Organization Quotes](images/quotes-pascal.jpg)
You always admire what you really don’t understand.
- Blaise Pascal (1623-62),
French mathematician, physicist and philosopher, pictured right.
No 24![Learning Organization Quotes Learning Organization Quotes](images/quotes-socrates.jpg)
A man, though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more.
- Socrates (470-399 BC), Greek philosopher,
pictured right.
No 25![Learning Organization Quotes Learning Organization Quotes](images/quotes-henry.jpg)
I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided and that is the lamp of experience.
-Patrick Henry (1736-99), American
politician, pictured right.
No 26![Learning Organization Quotes Learning Organization Quotes](images/quotes-james.jpg)
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
-William James (1842-1910),
American psychologist and philosopher, pictured right.
No 27![Learning Organization Quotes Learning Organization Quotes](images/quotes-faraday.jpg)
I believe some hesitate because they do not like their thoughts disturbed.
- Michael Faraday (1791-1867), English
scientist, pictured right
No 28![Learning Organization Quotes Learning Organization Quotes](images/quotes-leonardo.jpg)
He who thinks little, errs much.
- Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519),
Italian painter, sculptor, architect and engineer, pictured right.
![Learning Organization Quotes Learning Organization Quotes](images/quotes-argyris.jpg)
No 29
It is not possible to deal effectively with any subject if it is not discussable and if its undiscussability is
also undiscussable.![Learning Organization Quotes Learning Organization Quotes](images/quotesschon.jpg)
- Chris Argyris, pictured right above and Donald
Schön, pictured right, in Organizational Learning II,
1996).
No 30![Learning Organization Quotes Learning Organization Quotes](images/quotes-senge.jpg)
Organizations learn only through individuals who learn.
- Peter Senge, pictured right, in The Fifth Discipline
(1990).
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