Learning & Education: Learning Quotes

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"And where does magic come from? I think that magic's in the learning"

Dar Williams, Musician

"Seriously. I'm not very bright, and it takes a lot for me to get a concept - to really get a concept. To get it enough that it becomes part of me. But when it happens I get real excited about it"

Alton Brown, Entertainer

"I've never let my school interfere with my education"

Mark Twain, Author

Mark Twain

"Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned"

Mark Twain, Author

Mark Twain

"We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"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

George Bernard Shaw

"An inability to handle language is not the same thing as stupidity"

David Hare, Playwright

David Hare

"Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability"

Cicero, Philosopher

Cicero

"I would fain grow old learning many things"

Plato, Philosopher

Plato

"College is a refuge from hasty judgment"

Robert Frost, Poet

Robert Frost

"That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

Seneca the Younger

"It is too late to be studying Hebrew; it is more important to understand even the slang of today"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

Henry David Thoreau

"I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it"

Pablo Picasso, Artist

Pablo Picasso

"I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand"

Confucius, Philosopher

"Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education"

Franklin D. Roosevelt, President

Franklin D. Roosevelt

"A child miseducated, is a child lost"

John F. Kennedy, President

John F. Kennedy

"Too much of what is called "education" is little more than an expensive isolation from reality"

Thomas Sowell, Economist

Thomas Sowell

"Experience teaches only the teachable"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

Aldous Huxley

"Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability"

Francis Bacon, Philosopher

Francis Bacon

"Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience"

Francis Bacon, Philosopher

Francis Bacon

"I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there, and it will last forever"

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Author

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

"You can't learn in school what the world is going to do next year"

Henry Ford, Businessman

Henry Ford

"Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities"

John Ruskin, Writer

John Ruskin

"Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it"

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Philosopher

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

"It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others"

Michel de Montaigne, Philosopher

Michel de Montaigne

"In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum"

Michel de Montaigne, Philosopher

Michel de Montaigne

"Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious"

Ambrose Bierce, Journalist

Ambrose Bierce

"The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity"

Edmund Burke, Statesman

Edmund Burke

"The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one"

William James, Philosopher

William James

"Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon"

Alexander Pope, Poet

Alexander Pope

"Those move easiest who have learn'd to dance"

Alexander Pope, Poet

Alexander Pope

"Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind"

Jonathan Swift, Writer

Jonathan Swift

"I knew after my first lesson what I wanted to do with my life"

Billie Jean King, Athlete

Billie Jean King

"Study lends a kind of enchantment to all our surroundings"

Honore de Balzac, Novelist

Honore de Balzac

"We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy"

Richard M. Nixon, President

Richard M. Nixon

"You have learned something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something"

H.G. Wells, Author

H.G. Wells

"The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas"

George Santayana, Philosopher

George Santayana

"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

Arthur Schopenhauer

"Whenever you trace the origin of a skill or practices which played a crucial role in the ascent of man, we usually reach the realm of play"

Eric Hoffer, Writer

Eric Hoffer

"College isn't the place to go for ideas"

Helen Keller, Author

Helen Keller

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