LEARNING QUOTES II

quotations about learning

Learning is better worth than houses or land.

GEORGE CRABBE

attributed, Day's Collacon

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Research has shown time and again that children need opportunities to move in class. Memory and movement are linked, and the body is a tool of learning, not a roadblock to or a detour away from it.

LARA N. DOTSON-RENTA

"Why Young Kids Learn Through Movement", The Atlantic, May 19, 2016


Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skilful hands; in unskilful, the most mischievous.

ALEXANDER POPE

"Thoughts on Various Subjects"

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The learning of facts based on method and recall is no longer appropriate. Skilled employees of the future need to know where to find information -- and how to use it.

STAFF WRITER

"Constant learning is not just for kids now", Sheffield Telegraph, May 4, 2016


A medieval scholar would faint at the thought of all the educational content on the Web. On YouTube alone, you can learn about everything from boiling an egg to building a space station.

DENISE WYDRA

"Good Education Is Hard to Find--and Five Other Myths", Education Week, May 5, 2016


All learning is derived from things previously known.

ARISTOTLE

The Nicomachean Ethics

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To be silent oft is to learn.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims

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Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.

THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY

Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley

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Change is the end result of all true learning.

LEO BUSCAGLIA

Love


Wear your learning, like a watch, in a private pocket; and do not pull it out and strike it, merely to show that you have one. If you are asked what o'clock it is, tell it, but do not proclaim it hourly and unasked, like the watchman.

PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE

Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son

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A little learning is a dangerous thing and a good deal of it is suffocating.

GEORGE ADE

"The Juvenile and Mankind", Knocking the Neighbors

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The really faithful lover of learning holds fast to the Good Way till death.

CONFUCIUS

The Wisdom of Confucius


You live and learn. Or you don't live long.

ROBERT A. HEINLEIN

The Notebooks of Lazarus Long

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The light of learning should be the light of truth. It should illumine the darkness of error, and a certain beacon to conduct us through the concealed, the rough, and intricate ways of the world.

ACTON

Acton; Or, the Circle of Life


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

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A little learning is a dangerous thing. Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring; There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking largely sobers us again.

ALEXANDER POPE

An Essay on Criticism

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

CHANAKYA

Vridda-Chanakya

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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

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To learn gives the liveliest pleasure, not only to philosophers but to men in general.

ARISTOTLE

Poetics

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The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

DR. SEUSS

I Can Read with My Eyes Shut!

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