八十岁学不了吹鼓手。
An old dog will learn no new tricks.
Old dogs will not learn new tricks.
You cannot teach an old dog / old dogs new thicks.
It is hard to teach an old dog new tricks.
笨鸟先飞。
A lame traveler should get out betimes.
Clumsy birds have to start flying early.
边干边学。
By writing, learn to write.
In doing we learn.
冰冻三尺非一日之寒。
A strong town is not won in an hour.
The tree falls not at the first stroke.
不耻下问，才有学问。
A man becomes learned by asking questions.
不会问就不会学。
He that nothing questions nothing learns.
He who questions nothing learns nothing.
不满足是进步的开始。
Discontent is the first step in progress.
不学无术。
Learn not and know not.
不知为遭，不欲求知更遭。
Not to know is bad; not to wish to know is worse.
吹嘘自己的学问，等于宣扬自己的无知。
He that boasts of his knowledge / learning proclaims his own ignorance.
答得快，懂得少。
Who answers suddenly knows little.
滴水穿石。磨杵成针。
A falling drop at last will cave a stone.
Constant dropping / dripping wears away / will wear away a stone.
Drop by drop, water wears away a stone.
Hair by hair you will pull out the horse’s tail.
He that shoots often at last shall hit the mark.
If you remove stone by stone, even a mountain will be leveled.
Little by little one goes far.
Little by little and bit by bit.
Little drops of rain pierce the hard marble.
Little / Many strokes fall great oaks.
The repeated stroke will fell the oak.
Many little strokes fell down strong oaks.
Spit on a stone, and it will be wet at last.
The soft drops of rain pierce the hard marble.
Water dropping day by day wears the hardest rock away.
滴水穿石不是靠力气，而是靠持之以恒。
The drop hollows the stone, not by force, but by the frequency of its fall.
读而不思，犹如食而不化。
To read without reflection is like eating without digesting.
读书不深思，就像吃饭不消化一样没用。
Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
读书对思维就像锻炼对身体一样重要.
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
读书是最便宜的娱乐，最持久的快乐。
No entertainment is so cheap as reading nor any pleasure so lasting.
读书犹如蜂采蜜，吸取其中之精华。
Use a book as a bee does flowers.
多问则多学。
He who inquires / questions much learns much.
观察是最好的老师。
Observation is the best teacher.
多观察、多吃苦和多钻研，是学习的三大栋梁。
Seeing much，suffering much, and studying much are the three pillars of learning.
The three foundations of learning: seeing much, suffering much, and studying much.
害怕问者耻于学习。
He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning.
好书开卷时让人期待，合书时受益匪浅。
That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit.
活到老，学到老。
A man is never too old to learn.
It is never too old to learn.
Never too old to learn.
One is never too old to learn.
活着就要学习，学习是为了更好地活着。
Live to learn and learn to live.
即使向敌人学习也不会有危险。
It is always safe to learn even from our enemies.
教学相长。
By learning you will teaching; by teaching you will learn.
He who teaches, learns.
Men learn while they teach.
Teaching others teaches yourself.
Thoroughly to teach another is the best way to learn for yourself.
We learn by teaching.
可以向敌人学习。
Learn from an enemy.
民族的智慧寓于谚语中，它们简短而精辟。
The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy.
名师出高徒。
A great teacher produces a brilliant student.
磨难多，懂得就多。
The man who suffers much knows much.
逆境是一个好教员。
Adversity is a great school-master.
年轻时学的东西，老了都不会忘。
What youth learns age does not forget.
启迪人性最好的老师是伟大人物的生活。
The best teachers of humanity are the lives of great men.
勤学好问，解惑增智。
No one is informed but he who inquires.
人活着若不学习，犹如行人走在黑夜中。
The living man who does not learn is dark, dark like one walking in the night.
如果没有掌握好以前的，切勿开始以后的。
Never embark on what comes after without having mastered what goes before.
少时学得好，长大有出息。
You are a sweet nut, if you were well cracked.
十载寒窗苦，榜上有名乐融融。
Although intensive study is hard, its fruit is sweet.
他人之误为良师。
Other people’s defects are good teachers.
问便千家成行家。
After asking man experts for advice, you can become expert yourself.
问的多，知道的就多。
Ask much, know much.
无论年龄多大，都要不耻下问。
It is not shame for a man to learn that which he knows not, whatever be his age.
无知而犯错误，犯错误而长见识。
By ignorance we mistake, and by mistakes we learn.
心不专则眼不明。
The eye is blind if the mind is absent.
“需要”是最好的老师。
The best teacher one can have is necessity.
选书如择友。
Choose an author as you choose a friend.
学得快，忘得快。
Soon learnt, soon forgotten.
What is soon learnt is soon forgotten.
学得越多就越发觉自己无知。
The more we study, the more we discover our ignorance.
学而不思则罔；思而不学则殆。
Learning without thought is labor lost；thought without learning is perilous.
学术无穷生命短暂。
Art is long, life is short.
学无止境。
Live and learn.
We live and learn.
There is no end to learning.
There is no satiety in study.
学习趁年少，学就要学好。
Learn young, learn fair.
学习的敌人是自己的满足。
Complacency is the enemy of study
一日为师，终身为父。
A teacher for a day is a father for a lifetime.
有其师必有其徒。
As is the teacher, so is the pupil.
幼时所学，记一辈子。
What is learned in the cradle is carried to the grave / tomb.
幼时所学，至老不忘。
Whoso learns young, forgets not when he is old.
愉快着学的东西绝不会忘记。
What we learn with pleasure we never forget.
最好的教训不是得之于成功，而是来自于不幸。
Our bravest and best lessons are not leant though success, but through misadventure.
最先学的东西能够学得最好。
What we first learn we best can.
