LEARNING QUOTES IV

quotations about learning

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

CHANAKYA

Vridda-Chanakya

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Learning makes a good man better, and an ill man worse.

JOHN GARTH

attributed, Day's Collacon


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 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


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

LEONARDO DA VINCI

Thoughts on Art and Life

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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


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

CONFUCIUS

The Wisdom of Confucius


Learning is a plant that grows in all climes.

AKBAR

attributed, Day's Collacon


To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.

JEREMY TAYLOR

The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living

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No one is exempt from the rule that learning occurs through recognition of error.

ALEXANDER LOWEN

Bioenergetics

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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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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


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

JOHN LOCKE

attributed, Day's Collacon

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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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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


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

ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Barchester Towers

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