quotations about learning
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.
ABIGAIL ADAMS
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letter to John Quincy Adams, May 8, 1780
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Learning is a plant that grows in all climes.
AKBAR
attributed, Day's Collacon
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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
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Learning makes a man fit company for himself.
LA HARPE
attributed, Day's Collacon
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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
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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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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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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
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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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For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.
ARISTOTLE
The Nicomachean Ethics
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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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He is a poor disciple who does not surpass his master.
LEONARDO DA VINCI
Thoughts on Art and Life
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The really faithful lover of learning holds fast to the Good Way till death.
CONFUCIUS
The Wisdom of Confucius
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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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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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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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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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If we succeed in giving the love of learning, the learning itself is sure to follow.
JOHN LUBBOCK
The Pleasures of Life
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Fools deprecate learning; but it suffers no harm from contempt; the sun cares not that his light is not discerned by the blind.
MANSUR
attributed, Day's Collacon
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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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