quotations about learning
Where my reason, imagination or interest were not engaged, I would not or I could not learn.
WINSTON CHURCHILL
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My Early Life: A Roving Commission
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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
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The learning which is got by one's own observation and experience, is as far beyond that which is got by precept, as the knowledge of a traveler exceeds that which is got by a map.
J. TILLINGHAST
attributed, Day's Collacon
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It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies--seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Lacon
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Some will never learn anything because they understand everything too soon.
T. BLOUNT
attributed, Day's Collacon
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To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.
JEREMY TAYLOR
The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living
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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
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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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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
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There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE
Barchester Towers
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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
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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
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Learned fools are the greatest of all fools.
GERMAN PROVERB
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You can't learn anything when you're trying to look like the smartest person in the room.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER
The Poisonwood Bible
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Wisdom to learn is e'en for old men good.
AESCHYLUS
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