quotations about learning
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
You can't learn anything when you're trying to look like the smartest person in the room.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER
The Poisonwood Bible
There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE
Barchester Towers
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
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
For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.
ARISTOTLE
The Nicomachean Ethics
Some will never learn anything because they understand everything too soon.
T. BLOUNT
attributed, Day's Collacon
It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies--seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Lacon
Fools deprecate learning; but it suffers no harm from contempt; the sun cares not that his light is not discerned by the blind.
MANSUR
attributed, Day's Collacon
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
Learned fools are the greatest of all fools.
GERMAN PROVERB
If we succeed in giving the love of learning, the learning itself is sure to follow.
JOHN LUBBOCK
The Pleasures of Life
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
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
Wisdom to learn is e'en for old men good.
AESCHYLUS
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