quotations about learning
To learn gives the liveliest pleasure, not only to philosophers but to men in general.
ARISTOTLE
Poetics
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
That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.
DORIS LESSING
The Four-Gated City
Learning is like a cow of desire. It, like her, yields in all seasons.
CHANAKYA
Vridda-Chanakya
He who studies without passion will never become anything more than a pedant.
STEFAN ZWEIG
Confusion of Feelings or Confusion
Learning makes a man fit company for himself.
LA HARPE
attributed, Day's Collacon
The important point is that learning is not a fixed process, unvarying in all learners. Not only is the human organism characterized by a remarkable plasticity (that is, a striking ability to change), but it is also characterized by a variety of ways of thinking and learning.
GUY LEFRANCOIS
Theories of Human Learning: What the Professor Said
Man is but a beast without it: such a glorious god is Learning.
BHARTRHARI
"The Praise of the Wise Man"
The wisest mind hath something yet to learn.
GEORGE SANTAYANA
Atoms of Thought
No one is exempt from the rule that learning occurs through recognition of error.
ALEXANDER LOWEN
Bioenergetics
The best education happens when educators are paid more money and are able to educate less learners -- the opposite of productivity.
JOSHUA KIM
"Why EdTech Is A Good, But Not Great, Business", Inside Higher Ed, April 24, 2016
Education is best when it is bundled. When learning is bundled with living. Where hands--on practice is bundled with information and theory.
JOSHUA KIM
"Why EdTech Is A Good, But Not Great, Business", Inside Higher Ed, April 24, 2016
The learned man is only useful to the learned.
JEAN PAUL F. RICHTER
Life of Jean Paul F. Richter
Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.
EURIPIDES
Phrixus, fragment
He is a poor disciple who does not surpass his master.
LEONARDO DA VINCI
Thoughts on Art and Life
Learning is most often considered. a process of getting rather than giving. This is most evident in conceptions of student/teacher roles: Teachers give and students get. Yet, in adult learning both giving and getting are critical.
DAVID A. KOLB
Building a Learning Community
Learning, though it is useful when we know how to make a right use of it, yet, considered as in our own power, and to those who trust to it without seeking a superior guidance ... it is indeed like a sword in a madman's hands, which gives him the more opportunity of hurting himself than others.
JOHN NEWTON
Cardiphonia; or, The Utterance of the Heart
I'm learning to fly, but I ain't got wings. Coming down is the hardest thing.
TOM PETTY
Learning to Fly
It turns out that saying, "You can't teach an old dog new tricks," doesn't apply to humans. Research now reveals that our brains are continuously changing, producing new growth, making new connections. It doesn't matter how old we are, we are still under construction, learning as we go along.
DANA LIGHTMAN
Power Optimism
As we grow older, we must discipline ourselves to continue expanding, broadening, learning, keeping out minds active and open.
CLINT EASTWOOD
attributed, A Quiet Strength