Learning Quotes: Inspiring Words for Lifelong Growth (Page 2)

"Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost"

Thomas Fuller, Clergyman

"No man ever prayed heartily without learning something"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

"If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future"

Euripides, Poet

"The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant"

Plato, Philosopher

"Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune"

Plato, Philosopher

"I would fain grow old learning many things"

Plato, Philosopher

"Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal"

Plato, Philosopher

"A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin"

George Herbert, Poet

"Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning"

Thomas Jefferson, President

"The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone"

Albert Camus, Philosopher

"Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote"

Edward Young, Poet

"Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little wordings enjoy"

Edward Young, Poet

"Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time"

Rabindranath Tagore, Poet

"Stand aside for a while and leave room for learning, observe carefully what children do, and then, if you have understood well, perhaps teaching will be different from before"

Loris Malaguzzi, Teacher

"Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them"

Michel de Montaigne, Philosopher

"Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"As long as you live, keep learning how to live"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

"Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning"

Bill Gates, Businessman

"I think one of the most important things in life is to be curious and always be learning"

Øystein Stray Spetalen, Businessman

"The chess player who develops the ability to play two dozen boards at a time will benefit from learning to compress his or her analysis into less time"

Marilyn vos Savant, Author

"Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other"

John F. Kennedy, President

"Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss"

Douglas Adams, Writer

"Learning lines is on my mind until I do know them. I'll read the paper or paint the house to keep from starting to memorize. I've never found an easy way"

Paul Lynde, Comedian

"The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books"

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Poet

"Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns"

William Penn, Leader

"A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring"

Alexander Pope, Poet

"I get stubborn and dig in when people tell me I can't do something and I think I can. It goes back to my childhood when I had problems in school because I have a learning disability"

Ann Bancroft, Explorer

"When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die"

Lillian Smith, Novelist

"Learning is its own exceeding great reward"

William Hazlitt, Critic

"The minute that you're not learning I believe you're dead"

Jack Nicholson, Actor

"The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable"

Arthur Schopenhauer, Philosopher

"Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors"

Arthur Schopenhauer, Philosopher

"They are the guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in that great business of ours, of learning how to be, to do, to do without, and to depart"

John Morley, Statesman

"The least of the work of learning is done in the classroom"

Thomas Merton, Author

"Wisdom is learning what to overlook"

William James, Philosopher

"Each year has been so robust with problems and successes and learning experiences and human experienes that a year is a lifetime at Apple. So this has been ten lifetimes"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

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