Learning & Education: Learning Quotes

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"Education has for its object the formation of character"

Herbert Spencer, Philosopher

Herbert Spencer

"The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free"

Baruch Spinoza, Philosopher

Baruch Spinoza

"My reading is extremely eclectic. Lately I've been teaching myself computer graphics, so I'm reading a lot about that. I read books of trivia, of facts"

Jack Prelutsky, Poet

Jack Prelutsky

"They know enough who know how to learn"

Henry B. Adams, Historian

Henry B. Adams

"In these days, it is doubtful that any child may reasonably be expected to succeed in life if he is denied the opportunity of an education"

Earl Warren, Judge

Earl Warren

"Taking charge of your own learning is a part of taking charge of your life, which is the sine qua non in becoming an integrated person"

Warren G. Bennis, Psychologist

Warren G. Bennis

"Marlo taught me things I thought I knew"

Phil Donahue, Entertainer

Phil Donahue

"True education is limited to those people who would die without knowing, whereas the masses in the institutions are merely going through the motions, for education is a way of living"

Bryant H. McGill, Author

Bryant H. McGill

"I know how to learn anything I want to learn. I absolutely know that I could learn how to fly the space shuttle because someone else knows how to fly it, and they put it in a book. Give me the book, and I do not need somebody to stand up in front of the class"

Will Smith, Actor

Will Smith

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

Hannah Arendt, Historian

Hannah Arendt

"Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained"

James A. Garfield, President

James A. Garfield

"The education of a man is never completed until he dies"

Robert E. Lee, General

Robert E. Lee

"To be educated, a person doesn't have to know much or be informed, but he or she does have to have been exposed vulnerably to the transformative events of an engaged human life"

Thomas More, Author

Thomas More

"I also got a chance to go to the American Museum in New York, which helped my interest"

Robert T. Bakker, Scientist

Robert T. Bakker

"All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education"

Walter Scott, Novelist

Walter Scott

"I don't learn so good, no matter how good the teacher is"

Warren Zevon, Musician

Warren Zevon

"It took me 10 years to realize that I don't know 'em, 10 years to realize that it's possible to learn them, then another 10 years to learn how to do things"

Warren Zevon, Musician

Warren Zevon

"I had no experience with broadcasting basketball games, so I took a tape recorder and went to a playground where there was a summer league, and I stood up in the top of the stands and I called the game"

Ed Bradley, Journalist

"My own ideals for the university are those of a genuine democracy and serious scholarship. These two, indeed, seem to go together"

Woodrow Wilson, Politician

Woodrow Wilson

"We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study"

Woodrow Wilson, Politician

Woodrow Wilson

"So far as the colleges go, the sideshows are swallowing up the circus"

Woodrow Wilson, Politician

Woodrow Wilson

"Custom has made dancing sometimes necessary for a young man; therefore mind it while you learn it, that you may learn to do it well, and not be ridiculous, though in a ridiculous act"

Lord Chesterfield, Statesman

Lord Chesterfield

"To teach one's self is to be forced to learn twice"

Ellen Glasgow, Novelist

Ellen Glasgow

"Education is a precondition to survival in America today"

Marian Wright Edelman, Activist

Marian Wright Edelman

"Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself"

Edward Gibbon, Historian

Edward Gibbon

"Let us read with method, and propose to ourselves an end to which our studies may point. The use of reading is to aid us in thinking"

Edward Gibbon, Historian

Edward Gibbon

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

Lillian Smith, Author

Lillian Smith

"Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow firm there, firm as weeds among stones"

Charlotte Bronte, Novelist

Charlotte Bronte

"I am still learning"

Michelangelo, Artist

Michelangelo

"He who has imagination without learning has wings, but no feet"

Joseph Joubert, Writer

Joseph Joubert

"You must continue to gain expertise, but avoid thinking like an expert"

Denis Waitley, Writer

Denis Waitley

"Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience"

Denis Waitley, Writer

Denis Waitley

"Four years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating notion that now I could teach myself"

John Updike, Novelist

John Updike

"A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn"

John Lubbock, Statesman

John Lubbock

"In common with many others in the varied branches of our profession, my academic education is subnormal"

Loretta Young, Actress

Loretta Young

"Nearly everyone I met, worked with, or read about was my teacher, one way or another"

Loretta Young, Actress

Loretta Young

"And though thou hadst small Latin, and less Greek"

Ben Jonson, Poet

Ben Jonson

"The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and nowhere else"

John W. Gardner, Educator

John W. Gardner

"I've never been a big believer in formal education"

Megan Fox, Actress

"There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live"

James Truslow Adams, Historian

James Truslow Adams

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