Quotes About Learning

At Learning's fountain it is sweet to drink, But 'tis a nobler privilege to think.

He never reckoned much to schooling and that. He said you could learn most what was worth knowing from keeping your eyes and ears peeled. Best way of learning, he always said, was doing.

Learn from history or you're doomed to repeat it.

Either you came in here a swimmer or you'd better be a really fast learner

An exceedingly confident student would in theory make a terrible student. Why would he take school seriously when he feels that he can outwit his teachers?

The surface of learning is hearing what your ears aren't prepared to hear, and the core of learning is hearing what your ears don't want to hear.

We can learn so much looking outside our core field of expertise.

The text-book is rare that stimulates its reader to ask, Why is this so? Or, How does this connect with what has been read elsewhere?

Right it is to be taught even by the enemy.

So winners, Hae-Joo proposed, are the real losers because they learn nothing? What, then, are losers? Winners?

I'm learning Spanish - I got Rosetta Stone for Christmas.

Your happiness is at the intersection of your passions and learning from great people.

Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty.

This enemy of peace in the world today is unlike any we have seen in the past, and our military is learning from, and building on, previous successes while carrying peace and freedom into the future.

I am defeated, and know it, if I meet any human being from whom I find myself unable to learn anything.

Control exists only when there is action of will, positively or negatively. Will is resistance. When the mind is learning, there is no resistance.

The only organization capable of unprejudiced growth, or unguided learning, is a network. All othertopologies limit what can happen

The first indication of a young person's growing smarter is that he no longer understands the things which he used to consider quite intelligible and self-evident.

In a democratic scheme, money invested in the promotion of learning gives a tenfold return to the people even as a seed sown in good soil returns a luxuriant crop.

I enjoyed studying costume, learning about the corsetry and the historical context of fashion. I never had any real intention of being a costume designer.

The poor inhabitant below Was quick to learn and wise to know And keenly felt the friendly glow And softer flame; But thoughtless follies laid him low, And stain'd his name!

Disciples do owe their masters only a temporary belief, and a suspension of their own judgment till they be fully instructed.

We do not learn, and that what we call learning is only a process of recollection.

I'm a nerd; I enjoy educating myself and learning things.