quotations about learning
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
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
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
Some will never learn anything because they understand everything too soon.
T. BLOUNT
attributed, Day's Collacon
Where my reason, imagination or interest were not engaged, I would not or I could not learn.
WINSTON CHURCHILL
My Early Life: A Roving Commission
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
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
Wisdom to learn is e'en for old men good.
AESCHYLUS
fragment
Learned fools are the greatest of all fools.
GERMAN PROVERB
For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.
ARISTOTLE
The Nicomachean Ethics
And for matter of policy and government, that learning, should rather hurt, than enable thereunto, is a thing very improbable.
FRANCIS BACON
The Advancement of Learning
Every time you learn to do something new, what is happening in the brain is you are making connections that weren't there before, or you are strengthening connections that were weak and so the brain changes in response to learning. In fact, to a neuroscientist, the terms are synonymous. Learning is a brain change, the terms are not distinguishable.
DANIEL LEVITAN
"Bow down: Learning the violin is a lesson in humility", Ottawa Citizen, May 6, 2016
What's the use you learning to do right, when it's troublesome to do right and ain't no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same?
MARK TWAIN
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies--seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Lacon
Who can tell whether learning may not even weaken invention in a man, who has great natural advantages from nature? Whether the weight and number of so many other men's thoughts and notions may suppress his own; as heaping on wood sometimes suppresses a little spark, that would otherwise have grown into a flame?
SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE
"An Essay Upon the Ancient and Modern Learning", Sir William Temple's Essays