quotations about learning
I'm learning to fly, but I ain't got wings. Coming down is the hardest thing.
TOM PETTY
Learning to Fly
He is not likely to learn who is not willing to be taught; for the learner has something to do, as well as the teacher.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE
Moral and Religious Aphorisms
Learning is a plant that grows in all climes.
AKBAR
attributed, Day's Collacon
Of all evil things the least quantity is to be borne, but of learning and knowledge, the more a man hath, the better he can bear it.
BION
attributed, Day's Collacon
The important point is that learning is not a fixed process, unvarying in all learners. Not only is the human organism characterized by a remarkable plasticity (that is, a striking ability to change), but it is also characterized by a variety of ways of thinking and learning.
GUY LEFRANCOIS
Theories of Human Learning: What the Professor Said
He is a poor disciple who does not surpass his master.
LEONARDO DA VINCI
Thoughts on Art and Life
Learn, as if never overtaking your object, and yet as if apprehensive of losing it.
CONFUCIUS
The Wisdom of Confucius
Education is best when it is bundled. When learning is bundled with living. Where hands--on practice is bundled with information and theory.
JOSHUA KIM
"Why EdTech Is A Good, But Not Great, Business", Inside Higher Ed, April 24, 2016
The really faithful lover of learning holds fast to the Good Way till death.
CONFUCIUS
The Wisdom of Confucius
A man of learning who makes no use of what he knows, is like a cloud which gives no rain.
GEORGE POPE MORRIS
The New York Mirror, Nov. 13, 1830
The best education happens when educators are paid more money and are able to educate less learners -- the opposite of productivity.
JOSHUA KIM
"Why EdTech Is A Good, But Not Great, Business", Inside Higher Ed, April 24, 2016
To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.
JEREMY TAYLOR
The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living
One destitute of wealth is not destitute, he is indeed rich, but the man devoid of learning is destitute in every way.
CHANAKYA
Vridda-Chanakya
I delight in the diffusion of learning; yet, I must confess it, I am most gratified and transported at finding a large quantity of it in one place; just as I would rather have a solid pat of butter at breakfast, than a splash of grease upon the table-cloth that covers half of it.
WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR
Imaginary Conversations
No man is so learned but he may be taught; neither is any one so illiterate but he may teach.
WILLIAM SCOTT DOWNEY
Proverbs
For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.
ARISTOTLE
The Nicomachean Ethics
No one is exempt from the rule that learning occurs through recognition of error.
ALEXANDER LOWEN
Bioenergetics
Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.
ARTHUR KOESTLER
attributed, The Gigantic Book of Teachers' Wisdom
Where my reason, imagination or interest were not engaged, I would not or I could not learn.
WINSTON CHURCHILL
My Early Life: A Roving Commission
Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn.
T. H. WHITE
The Once and Future King