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Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf.
-American Indian Proverb
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Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-Chinese Proverb
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Those who do not study are only cattle dressed up in men's clothes.
-Chinese Proverb
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Learning makes a man fit company for himself as well as for others.
-English Proverb
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Who God does not teach, man cannot.
-Scottish Proverb
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One thousand days to learn; ten thousand days to refine.
-Japanese Proverb
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We learn by teaching.
-Proverb
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By learning you will teach, by teaching you will learn.
-Proverb
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Learning is not attained by chance. It must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.
-Abigail Adams
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Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
-Douglas Adams
Last Chance to See
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Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what was at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment.
-Joseph Addison
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The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.
-Mortimer J. Adler
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It is always in season for old men to learn.
-Aeschylus
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A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.
-Amos Bronson Alcott
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My father taught in the wise way which unfolds what lies in the child
-Louisa May Alcott
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-Louisa May Alcott
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I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.
-Muhammad Ali
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I hope everyone that is reading this is having a really good day. And if you are not, just know that in every new minute that passes you have an opportunity to change that.
-Gillian Anderson
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The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition is now possible, has led either to sheer irrelevancy, the famous knowing of more and more about less and less...
-Hannah Arendt
Crises of the Republic, On Violence, 1972
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That's what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we've changed because of it and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way, is winning.
-Richard Bach
The Bridge Across Forever, 1984
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Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.
-Francis Bacon
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Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.
-Francis Bacon
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I would live to study, and not study to live.
-Francis Bacon
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If I were seriously ill and in desperate need of a physician, and if by some miracle I could secure either Hippocrates, the Father of Medicine, or a young doctor fresh from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, with his equipment comprising the latest developments in the technologies and techniques of medicine, I should, of course, take the young doctor. On the other hand, if I were commissioned to find a teacher for a group of adolescent boys and if, by some miracle, I could secure either Socrates or the latest Ph.D. from Teachers College, with his equipment of the latest technologies and techniques of teaching, with all due respect to the College that employs me and to my students, I am fairly certain that I would jump at the chance to get Socrates.
-William C. Bagley
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The man who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is uneducated the day after.
-Newton D. Baker
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Books about Learning
