Learning Quotes

Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.

Fred Rogers

Bear in mind that brains and learning, like muscle and physical skill, are articles of commerce. They are bought and sold. You can hire them by the year or by the hour. The only thing in the world not for sale is character.

Antonin Scalia

Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.

William Arthur Ward

Life is like playing the violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Samuel Butle

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

Albert Einstein

Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.

Benjamin Disraeli

Learning builds daily accumulation, but the practice of Tao builds daily simplification. Simplify and simplify, until all contamination from relative, contridictory thinking is eliminated. Then one does nothing, yet nothing is left undone. One who wins the world does so by not meddling with it. One who meddles with the world loses it.

Tao te Ching, 48. Lao - Tzu

Liberty without learning is always in peril learning without liberty is always in vain.

John F. Kennedy

With just enough of learning to misquote.

Lord Byron

He not only overflowed with learning, he stood in the slop.

Sydney Smith

Learning makes a man fit company for himself.

Thomas Fulle

Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous - Calvin.

Bill Watterson

There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom.

Sir Francis Bacon

Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote.

Edward Young