Quotes About Learning

Why don't they pass a Constitutional Amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as Prohibition did, in five years we will have the smartest people on earth.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether this happens at 20 or at 80. Anyone who keeps on learning not only remains young, but becomes constantly more valuable, regardless of physical capacity.

Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned.

Learning is like rowing upstream: not to advance is to drop back.

I love my love with an M because through all one year in riding to work and back together, we carried Edna St. Vincent Millay's "Fatal Interview" in the automobile, and learned twenty-seven of the sonnets by heart. (A traffic stop is just time enough to say a sonnet if you really know it well.)

The library lets you borrow the beauty and keep the knowledge.

But what is more important in a library than anything else — than everything else — is the fact that it exists.

If you haven't owed a library fine at least once in your life, you're not a real reader.

Knowledge lives at the library, and the nice people there always let us take some home.

See'st thou our youth? and dost thou hear them plead? They long for knowledge, but no books to read Then found a Library, rich, choice and free. Sure all will join in such Philanthropy, And thus these youth much Knowledge will obtain And wiser be when future years they gain.

Librarians are generals in the war on ignorance.

Library work is far too pleasant to be grossly profitable.

When I got the library card, that was when my life began.

A library card is a credit card.

Linus: Just think, Charlie Brown… my own library card! Charlie Brown: I hope you make good use of it by taking out all the books you can read. Linus: I suppose that would be more practical... I was thinking of having it framed!

...life is a gift to be accepted and returned. Life is a celebration, it is a learning, it is a gift.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. They must, they have no other models.

[T]here are few mental exercises better than learning great poetry or prose by heart.

Stay on top of your past so you can have a better view of your future.

When you say, "The burned child dreads the fire," you mean that he is already a master of induction.

We could use up two Eternities in learning all that is to be learned about our own world and the thousands of nations that have arisen and flourished and vanished from it. Mathematics alone would occupy me eight million years.

He that in his studies wholly applies himself to labor and exercise, and neglects meditation, loses his time; and he that only applies himself to meditation, and neglects labor and exercise, only wanders and loses himself.

A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser to-day than he was yesterday.

Well! well! It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose. But it's hard. Hard.