quotations about learning
Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.
EURIPIDES
Phrixus, fragment
To learn gives the liveliest pleasure, not only to philosophers but to men in general.
ARISTOTLE
Poetics
Of all evil things the least quantity is to be borne, but of learning and knowledge, the more a man hath, the better he can bear it.
BION
attributed, Day's Collacon
No one is exempt from the rule that learning occurs through recognition of error.
ALEXANDER LOWEN
Bioenergetics
The wisest mind hath something yet to learn.
GEORGE SANTAYANA
Atoms of Thought
We busted out of class had to get away from those fools;
We learned more from a three minute record than we ever learned in school.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
"No Surrender", Born in the U.S.A.
The really faithful lover of learning holds fast to the Good Way till death.
CONFUCIUS
The Wisdom of Confucius
I delight in the diffusion of learning; yet, I must confess it, I am most gratified and transported at finding a large quantity of it in one place; just as I would rather have a solid pat of butter at breakfast, than a splash of grease upon the table-cloth that covers half of it.
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR
Imaginary Conversations
He is a poor disciple who does not surpass his master.
LEONARDO DA VINCI
Thoughts on Art and Life
No man is so learned but he may be taught; neither is any one so illiterate but he may teach.
WILLIAM SCOTT DOWNEY
Proverbs
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
Gie me ae spark o' Nature's fire,
That's a' the learning I desire.
ROBERT BURNS
First Epistle to John Lapraik
To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.
JEREMY TAYLOR
The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living
The chief art of learning is to attempt but a little at a time.
JOHN LOCKE
attributed, Day's Collacon
Learn, as if never overtaking your object, and yet as if apprehensive of losing it.
CONFUCIUS
The Wisdom of Confucius
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
A man of learning who makes no use of what he knows, is like a cloud which gives no rain.
GEORGE POPE MORRIS
The New York Mirror, Nov. 13, 1830
One destitute of wealth is not destitute, he is indeed rich, but the man devoid of learning is destitute in every way.
CHANAKYA
Vridda-Chanakya
It's not really the SATs, the tests themselves, it's what they stand for. It's the scorched earth policy that they create. It's the focus on tedious technicality over inspiring ideas. It's making learning as nit-picky and as joyless as possible.
KATE BYRNE
"Sats are making learning nit-picky and joyless", TES News, May 3, 2016
The learning which is got by one's own observation and experience, is as far beyond that which is got by precept, as the knowledge of a traveler exceeds that which is got by a map.
J. TILLINGHAST
attributed, Day's Collacon