LEARNING QUOTES V

quotations about learning

To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.

JEREMY TAYLOR

The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living

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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

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Learning, like money, may be of so base a coin, as to be utterly void of use; or, if sterling, may require good management to make it serve the purpose of sense or happiness.

WILLIAM SHENSTONE

Essays on Men and Manners


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

ARTHUR KOESTLER

attributed, The Gigantic Book of Teachers' Wisdom

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Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn.

T. H. WHITE

The Once and Future King


Some will never learn anything because they understand everything too soon.

T. BLOUNT

attributed, Day's Collacon


Where my reason, imagination or interest were not engaged, I would not or I could not learn.

WINSTON CHURCHILL

My Early Life: A Roving Commission

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And for matter of policy and government, that learning, should rather hurt, than enable thereunto, is a thing very improbable.

FRANCIS BACON

The Advancement of Learning

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Learned fools are the greatest of all fools.

GERMAN PROVERB


Every time you learn to do something new, what is happening in the brain is you are making connections that weren't there before, or you are strengthening connections that were weak and so the brain changes in response to learning. In fact, to a neuroscientist, the terms are synonymous. Learning is a brain change, the terms are not distinguishable.

DANIEL LEVITAN

"Bow down: Learning the violin is a lesson in humility", Ottawa Citizen, May 6, 2016


For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.

ARISTOTLE

The Nicomachean Ethics


Wisdom to learn is e'en for old men good.

AESCHYLUS

fragment

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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

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

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon


Who can tell whether learning may not even weaken invention in a man, who has great natural advantages from nature? Whether the weight and number of so many other men's thoughts and notions may suppress his own; as heaping on wood sometimes suppresses a little spark, that would otherwise have grown into a flame?

SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE

"An Essay Upon the Ancient and Modern Learning", Sir William Temple's Essays