Learning Quotes

Whoso neglects learning in his youth, Loses the past and is dead for the future.

Euripides, Phrixus

One pound of learning requires ten pounds of common sense to apply it.

Persian Prove

By learning you will teach, by teaching you will learn.

Latin Prove

The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.

Fred Astaire

As long as you live, keep learning how to live.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

My life is the story of a man who always wants to carry too much. My spiritual quest is the painful process of learning to let go of things not essential.

Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, December 16, 2002

The great lawyer who employs his talent and his learning in the highly emunerative task of enabling a very wealthy client to override or circumvent the law is doing all that in him lies to encourage the growth in the country of a spirit of dumb anger against all laws and of disbelief in their efficacy.

Theodore Roosevelt

What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers.

Martina Horner, President of Radcliffe College

We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.

John Dewey

If we can dispel the delusion that learning about computers should be an activity of fiddling with array indexes and worrying whether X is an integer or a real number, we can begin to focus on programming as a source of ideas.

Harold Abelson

Health is worth more than learning.

Thomas Jefferson, letter to his cousin John Garland Jefferson, June 11, 1790

Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills, responsibilities, and rewards of grownups, and opportunites for action in all spheres of life. Adolescence should be a time of useful action, while book learning and scholarship should be a preoccupation of adults.

Eric Hoffe

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

Plato

Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.

Jean de La Fontaine