Quotes
Quotes about Learning
Let wealth and commerce, laws and learning die,
But leave us still our old nobility.
Learning is ever in the freshness of its youth, even for the old.
Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.
Find time still to be learning somewhat good, and give up being desultory.
Anarcharsis, on learning that the sides of a ship were four fingers thick, said that "the passengers were just that distance from death."
Very late in life, when he was studying geometry, some one said to Lacydes, "Is it then a time for you to be learning now?" "If it is not," he replied, "when will it be?"
When asked what learning was the most necessary, he said, "Not to unlearn what you have learned."
Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.
Consider that I laboured not for myself only, but for all them that seek learning.
We had all better get down to learning some Russian
The best-selling formula for our times insists on the combination of frank sex and technical information. The reader enjoys the sex, and, if he feels any shame in this, it can dissolve in a sense of virtue that he is learning how an airport is run, or a bank, or the White House, or a nuclear installation.
Anthony Burgess A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z 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 opportunities 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. The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent, experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it, if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
You are a young man and still have your way to make so you won't resent a last bit of advice from an old codger like myself. Which is, to keep self-control. With self-control and keeping all personal feeling out of things allied to your book-learning, that way you should go far
We were all learning to live with our shame, an aspect of the human condition
At fifteen my mind was set on learning. At thirty my character had been formed. At forty I had no more perplexities. At fifty I knew the Mandate of Heaven. At sixty I was at ease with whatever I heard. At seventy I could follow my heart's desire without transgressing moral principles.
Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time.
Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time.
It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.
'Tis very certain that each man carries in his eye the exact indication of his rank in the immense scale of men, and we are always learning to read it. A complete man should need no auxiliaries to his personal presence.
Vague and insignificant forms of speech, and abuse of language have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard and misapplied words, with little or no meaning, have, by prescription, such a right to be mistaken for deep learning and height of speculation, that it will not be easy to persuade either those who speak or those who hear them, that they are but the covers of ignorance, and hindrance of true knowledge.
Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket, and do not pull it out and strike it merely to show you have one. If you are asked what o'clock it is, tell it, but do not proclaim it hourly and unasked, like the watchman.
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
All the time a person is a child he is both a child and learning to be a parent. After he becomes a parent he becomes predominantly a parent reliving childhood.
The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,
It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them.
