LEARNING QUOTES IV

quotations about learning

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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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


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

LEONARDO DA VINCI

Thoughts on Art and Life

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

CONFUCIUS

The Wisdom of Confucius


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


Learn, as if never overtaking your object, and yet as if apprehensive of losing it.

CONFUCIUS

The Wisdom of Confucius

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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


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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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


To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.

JEREMY TAYLOR

The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living

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

JOHN LOCKE

attributed, Day's Collacon

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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


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