LEARNING QUOTES V

quotations about learning

You can't learn anything when you're trying to look like the smartest person in the room.

BARBARA KINGSOLVER

The Poisonwood Bible

Tags: Barbara Kingsolver


There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.

ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Barchester Towers

Tags: Anthony Trollope


Learning, like money, may be of so base a coin, as to be utterly void of use; or, if sterling, may require good management to make it serve the purpose of sense or happiness.

WILLIAM SHENSTONE

Essays on Men and Manners


Where my reason, imagination or interest were not engaged, I would not or I could not learn.

WINSTON CHURCHILL

My Early Life: A Roving Commission

Tags: Winston Churchill


For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.

ARISTOTLE

The Nicomachean Ethics


Fools deprecate learning; but it suffers no harm from contempt; the sun cares not that his light is not discerned by the blind.

MANSUR

attributed, Day's Collacon


Every time you learn to do something new, what is happening in the brain is you are making connections that weren't there before, or you are strengthening connections that were weak and so the brain changes in response to learning. In fact, to a neuroscientist, the terms are synonymous. Learning is a brain change, the terms are not distinguishable.

DANIEL LEVITAN

"Bow down: Learning the violin is a lesson in humility", Ottawa Citizen, May 6, 2016


Some will never learn anything because they understand everything too soon.

T. BLOUNT

attributed, Day's Collacon


Learned fools are the greatest of all fools.

GERMAN PROVERB


If we succeed in giving the love of learning, the learning itself is sure to follow.

JOHN LUBBOCK

The Pleasures of Life

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It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies--seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon


And for matter of policy and government, that learning, should rather hurt, than enable thereunto, is a thing very improbable.

FRANCIS BACON

The Advancement of Learning

Tags: Francis Bacon


Who can tell whether learning may not even weaken invention in a man, who has great natural advantages from nature? Whether the weight and number of so many other men's thoughts and notions may suppress his own; as heaping on wood sometimes suppresses a little spark, that would otherwise have grown into a flame?

SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE

"An Essay Upon the Ancient and Modern Learning", Sir William Temple's Essays


What's the use you learning to do right, when it's troublesome to do right and ain't no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same?

MARK TWAIN

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Tags: Mark Twain


Wisdom to learn is e'en for old men good.

AESCHYLUS

fragment

Tags: Aeschylus