LEARNING QUOTES III

quotations about learning

That's what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we've changed because of it and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way, is winning.

RICHARD BACH

The Bridge Across Forever

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The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,
And all the sweet serenity of books

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

"Morituri Salutamus", Poems and Other Writings

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That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.

DORIS LESSING

The Four-Gated City

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To learn gives the liveliest pleasure, not only to philosophers but to men in general.

ARISTOTLE

Poetics

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Man is but a beast without it: such a glorious god is Learning.

BHARTRHARI

"The Praise of the Wise Man"

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You live and learn. Or you don't live long.

ROBERT A. HEINLEIN

The Notebooks of Lazarus Long

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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

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Change is the end result of all true learning.

LEO BUSCAGLIA

Love


I'm learning to fly, but I ain't got wings. Coming down is the hardest thing.

TOM PETTY

Learning to Fly

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You live and learn. At any rate, you live.

DOUGLAS ADAMS

Mostly Harmless

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He who studies without passion will never become anything more than a pedant.

STEFAN ZWEIG

Confusion of Feelings or Confusion

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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 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


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

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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


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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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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Learning is like a cow of desire. It, like her, yields in all seasons.

CHANAKYA

Vridda-Chanakya

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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

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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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