LEARNING QUOTES IV

quotations about learning

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

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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.

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Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.

EURIPIDES

Phrixus, fragment

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Education is best when it is bundled. When learning is bundled with living. Where hands--on practice is bundled with information and theory.

JOSHUA KIM

"Why EdTech Is A Good, But Not Great, Business", Inside Higher Ed, April 24, 2016


He is a poor disciple who does not surpass his master.

LEONARDO DA VINCI

Thoughts on Art and Life

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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

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The really faithful lover of learning holds fast to the Good Way till death.

CONFUCIUS

The Wisdom of Confucius


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

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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


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

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No man is so learned but he may be taught; neither is any one so illiterate but he may teach.

WILLIAM SCOTT DOWNEY

Proverbs

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Learn, as if never overtaking your object, and yet as if apprehensive of losing it.

CONFUCIUS

The Wisdom of Confucius

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Gie me ae spark o' Nature's fire,
That's a' the learning I desire.

ROBERT BURNS

First Epistle to John Lapraik

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To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.

JEREMY TAYLOR

The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living

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The chief art of learning is to attempt but a little at a time.

JOHN LOCKE

attributed, Day's Collacon

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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

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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


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


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