Editor’s Note: Last week’s Pop Quiz on teaching and learning quotations prompted this offering from SafetyXChange member, Safety John.

Hi Catherine,

A few more for your collection ...

1. “You can never learn less, you can only learn more.”
~ R. Buckminster Fuller

2. “Those who do not learn from the past are condemned to repeat it.”
~ George Santayana

3. “You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.”
~ Franklin P. Jones

4. “When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be Twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.”
~ Mark Twain

5. “Live to learn and you will learn to live.”
~ Portuguese proverb

6. A wise man can learn from a fool. But a fool never learns.
~ Anonymous

7. “Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.”
~ Helen Keller

8. “He who is afraid to ask is ashamed of learning.”
~ Danish Proverb

9. “Owning intellectual property is like owning land. You need to keep investing in it again and again to get payoff; you can’t simply sit back and collect rent.”
~ Esther Dyson

10. “The only skill that will be important in the 21st century is the skill of learning new skills. Everything else will become obsolete over time.”
~ Peter Drucker

Submitted by
John Wettstein, CRSP, CHSC
Wettstein Safety Strategies Inc.

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