Quotes About Learning

The public library is a center of public happiness first, of public education next.

Play is the royal road to childhood happiness and adult brilliance.

How you feed your mind is every bit as critical to your happiness as how you feed your body.

The days that make us happy make us wise

Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.

Knowledge is the prime need of the hour.

Bad teaching wastes a great deal of effort, and spoils many lives which might have been full of energy and happiness.

Books make up no small part of human happiness.

You can never learn anything that you did not already know

Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge

A stubborn mind conduces as little to wisdom or even to knowledge, as a stubborn temper to happiness

Drawing used to be a civilized thing to do, like reading and writing. It was taught in elementary schools. It was democratic. It was a boon to happiness.

What matters most is that we learn from living.

Every day there is only one thing to learn: how to be honestly happy.

Those who take up any subject with an open mind, willing to learn anything that will contribute to their advancement, comfort and happiness, are wise.

Begin by instructing yourself, then you will receive instruction from others.

Frugality, I've learned, has its own cost, one that sometimes lasts forever.

Education, and I regret to say this as an educator, but there's no indication that education has a direct effect on happiness.

If we approach adversities wisely, our hardest times can be times of greatest growth, which in turn can lead toward times of greatest happiness.

A library of wisdom, then, is more precious than all wealth, and all things that are desirable cannot be compared to it.

Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect. Every advance into knowledge opens new prospects, and produces new incitements to farther progress.

What families have in common the world around is that they are the place where people learn who they are and how to be that way.

For surely to be wise is the most desirable thing in all the world.

Childhood is Last Chance Gulch for happiness. After that, you know too much.