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QUOTES ON LEARNING

Man is an imitative animal. This quality is the germ of all education in him. From his cradle to his grave he is learning to do what he sees others do.

THOMAS JEFFERSON, Notes on Virginia

It is only by amusing oneself that one can learn.

ANATOLE FRANCE, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard

I'm learning to fly, but I ain't got wings. Coming down is the hardest thing.

TOM PETTY, Learning to Fly

A genuine love of learning is one of the two delinquencies which cause blindness and lead a young man to ruin.

TOM STOPPARD, The Invention of Love

What's the use you learning to do right, when it's troublesome to do right and ain't no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same?

MARK TWAIN, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Gie me ae spark o' Nature's fire,
That's a' the learning I desire.

ROBERT BURNS, First Epistle to John Lapraik

That's what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we've changed because of it and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way, is winning.

RICHARD BACH, The Bridge Across Forever

As we grow older, we must discipline ourselves to continue expanding, broadening, learning, keeping out minds active and open.

CLINT EASTWOOD

To be silent oft is to learn.

EDWARD COUNSEL, Maxims

Learning is like a cow of desire. It, like her, yields in all seasons.

CHANAKYA, Vridda-Chanakya

Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

ARTHUR KOESTLER

Men are more readily contented with no intellectual light than with a little; and wherever they have been taught to acquire some knowledge in order to please others, they have most generally gone on to acquire more, to please themselves.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON, Lacon

Man is but a beast without it: such a glorious god is Learning.

BHARTRHARI, "The Praise of the Wise Man"

There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.

ANTHONY TROLLOPE, Barchester Towers

Sometimes the harshest lessons were the most valuable.

S. M. STIRLING, The Sunrise Lands

He is not likely to learn who is not willing to be taught; for the learner has something to do, as well as the teacher.

BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms

He is a poor disciple who does not surpass his master.

LEONARDO DA VINCI, Thoughts on Art and Life

No man is so learned but he may be taught; neither is any one so illiterate but he may teach.

WILLIAM SCOTT DOWNEY, Proverbs

A man must cling to the belief that the incomprehensible is comprehensible; otherwise he would not try to fathom it.

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE, The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe

We often learn--by unlearning.

EDWARD COUNSEL, Maxims

One destitute of wealth is not destitute, he is indeed rich, but the man devoid of learning is destitute in every way.

CHANAKYA, Vridda-Chanakya

There is no better way to learn than to teach.

BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms

It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies--seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON, Lacon


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