Learning Quotes

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

Confucius, The Confucian Analects

Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself.

John Jay Chapman

Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them.

Lord Chesterfield

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

Latin Prove

Teaching is more difficult than learning because what teaching calls for is this: to let learn. The real teacher, in fact, lets nothing else be learned than learning. His conduct, therefore, often produces the impression that we properly learn nothing from him, if by learning we now suddenly understand merely the procurement of useful information.

Martin Heidegge

Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. Learning to suspend your imagination and live completely in the very second of the present with no before and no after is the greatest gift a soldier can acquire.

Ernest Hemingway

Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.

W. Edwards Deming

A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: there shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking largely sobers us again.

Alexander Pope, An essay on Criticism

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

Plato

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.

Abigail Adams, 1780

The least of learning is done in the classrooms.

Thomas Merton

Strange as it seems, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.

Stephen Vizinczey

Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked.

Lord Chesterfield

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

Benjamin Disraeli