quotations about learning
You live and learn. At any rate, you live.
DOUGLAS ADAMS
Mostly Harmless
The learned man is only useful to the learned.
JEAN PAUL F. RICHTER
Life of Jean Paul F. Richter
The important point is that learning is not a fixed process, unvarying in all learners. Not only is the human organism characterized by a remarkable plasticity (that is, a striking ability to change), but it is also characterized by a variety of ways of thinking and learning.
GUY LEFRANCOIS
Theories of Human Learning: What the Professor Said
He who studies without passion will never become anything more than a pedant.
STEFAN ZWEIG
Confusion of Feelings or Confusion
The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.
DR. SEUSS
I Can Read with My Eyes Shut!
Learning makes a good man better, and an ill man worse.
JOHN GARTH
attributed, Day's Collacon
It turns out that saying, "You can't teach an old dog new tricks," doesn't apply to humans. Research now reveals that our brains are continuously changing, producing new growth, making new connections. It doesn't matter how old we are, we are still under construction, learning as we go along.
DANA LIGHTMAN
Power Optimism
Out of too much learning cometh heresy.
POPE SIXTUS IV
attributed, Day's Collacon
A little learning is a dangerous thing. Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring; There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking largely sobers us again.
ALEXANDER POPE
An Essay on Criticism
Learning is like a cow of desire. It, like her, yields in all seasons.
CHANAKYA
Vridda-Chanakya
A man must cling to the belief that the incomprehensible is comprehensible; otherwise he would not try to fathom it.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe
Learning is a plant that grows in all climes.
AKBAR
attributed, Day's Collacon
Learning makes a man fit company for himself.
LA HARPE
attributed, Day's Collacon
Man is but a beast without it: such a glorious god is Learning.
BHARTRHARI
"The Praise of the Wise Man"
Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. The only function of a school is to make self-education easier; failing that, it does nothing.
ISAAC ASIMOV
Science Past, Science Future
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
The best education happens when educators are paid more money and are able to educate less learners -- the opposite of productivity.
JOSHUA KIM
"Why EdTech Is A Good, But Not Great, Business", Inside Higher Ed, April 24, 2016
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.
ABIGAIL ADAMS
letter to John Quincy Adams, May 8, 1780
The wisest mind hath something yet to learn.
GEORGE SANTAYANA
Atoms of Thought
Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.
EURIPIDES
Phrixus, fragment