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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.
Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.
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
There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE, Barchester Towers
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