Learning Quotes - page 2

Strange as it seems, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and higher education positively fortifies it. (Stephen Vizinczey)
Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost. View quote
Thomas Fuller
Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open. View quote
Laura Welch Bush
The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book. View quote
Edward Gibbon
It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age. View quote
Margaret Mead
Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us - and those around us - more effectively. Look for the learning. View quote
Louisa May Alcott
Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them. View quote
Joseph Addison
Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning. (Oliver Goldsmith)
Just because you are CEO, don't think you have landed. You must continually increase your learning, the way you think, and the way you approach the organization. I've never forgotten that. View quote
Indra Nooyi
Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. View quote
Samuel Butler (novelist)
Without feeling abashed by my ignorance, I confess that I am absolutely unable to say. In the absence of an appearance of learning, my answer has at least one merit, that of perfect sincerity. View quote
Jean Henri Fabre
The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live. View quote
Mortimer Adler
In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the parents, but the attempt always fails because cultural transmission is geared to learning, not DNA. View quote
Gregory Bateson
There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art. View quote
Anthony Trollope
Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it; merely to show that you have one. View quote
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one's enemies. View quote
Leon Trotsky
The least work of learning is done in the classroom. (Thomas Merton)
The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value. View quote
Jean de La Fontaine
The relation of repetitions for learning and for repeating English stanzas needs no amplification. These were learned by heart on the first day with less than half of the repetitions necessary for the shortest of the syllable series. View quote
Hermann Ebbinghaus