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Your ability to learn depends partly on your ability to relinquish what you've held.
-Milton Hall
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This is an age of intellectual sauces, of essence, of distillation. We have conclusions without deductions, abridgments of history and abridgments of science without leading facts. We have animals for literature, Cabinet Encyclopaedias, Family Libraries, Diffusion Societies, and heaven knows what else! What is all this for? Not to add knowledge to the learned, but to tell points to the ignorant, without giving them the trouble to acquire the links. Oh! it is sad work. And the result will be injurious to all classes.
-Benjamin Haydon
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Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.
-William Hazlitt
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Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge. Books are less often made use of as spectacles to look at nature with, than as blinds to keep out its strong light and shifting scenery from weak eyes and indolent dispositions. The learned are mere literary drudges.
-William Hazlitt
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Learning isn't a means to an end; it is an end in itself.
-Robert A. Heinlein
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There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and because it takes a man's life to know them the little new that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave.
-Ernest Hemingway
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The brighter you are, the more you have to learn.
-Don Herold
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He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.
-Rabbi Hillel
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Learning is a livelihood.
-Hitopadesa
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That one is learned who has reduced his learning to practice.
-Hitopadesa
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In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.
-Eric Hoffer
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The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.
-Thomas Henry Huxley
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The art of teaching is tolerance. Humbleness is the art of learning.
-B.K.S. Iyengar
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I loved learning, it was school I hated. I used to cut school to go learn something.
-Eric Jensen
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You aren't learning anything when you're talking.
-Lyndon B. Johnson
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Their learning is like bread in a besieged town: every man gets a little, but no man gets a full meal.
-Samuel Johnson
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But it's not just learning things that's important. It's learning what to do with what you learn and learning why you learn things at all that matters.
-Norton Juster
The Phantom Tollbooth
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Everyone and everything around you is your teacher.
-Ken Keyes Jr.
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Learn to pause... or nothing worthwhile will catch up to you.
-Doug King
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I had six honest serving men. They taught me all I knew. Their names were: Where, What, When, Why, How and Who.
-Rudyard Kipling
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There is no need to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.
-Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Study is the scourge of boyhood, the environment of youth, the indulgence of adults and the curative for the aged.
-Saul Landau
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Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?
-Johann Kaspar Lavater
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That's what learning is. You suddenly understand something you understood all your life, but in a new way.
-Doris Lessing
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Books about Learning
