quotations about learning
To learn gives the liveliest pleasure, not only to philosophers but to men in general.
ARISTOTLE
Poetics
Learning, though it is useful when we know how to make a right use of it, yet, considered as in our own power, and to those who trust to it without seeking a superior guidance ... it is indeed like a sword in a madman's hands, which gives him the more opportunity of hurting himself than others.
JOHN NEWTON
Cardiphonia; or, The Utterance of the Heart
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
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.
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
No man is so learned but he may be taught; neither is any one so illiterate but he may teach.
WILLIAM SCOTT DOWNEY
Proverbs
He is not likely to learn who is not willing to be taught; for the learner has something to do, as well as the teacher.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE
Moral and Religious Aphorisms
No one is exempt from the rule that learning occurs through recognition of error.
ALEXANDER LOWEN
Bioenergetics
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
The really faithful lover of learning holds fast to the Good Way till death.
CONFUCIUS
The Wisdom of Confucius
He is a poor disciple who does not surpass his master.
LEONARDO DA VINCI
Thoughts on Art and Life
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
Gie me ae spark o' Nature's fire,
That's a' the learning I desire.
ROBERT BURNS
First Epistle to John Lapraik
Learn, as if never overtaking your object, and yet as if apprehensive of losing it.
CONFUCIUS
The Wisdom of Confucius
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 chief art of learning is to attempt but a little at a time.
JOHN LOCKE
attributed, Day's Collacon
To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.
JEREMY TAYLOR
The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living
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
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
You can't learn anything when you're trying to look like the smartest person in the room.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER
The Poisonwood Bible