Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?
—Johann Kaspar Lavater (1741–1801) Swiss Theologian, Poet
Never regard study as a duty but as an enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later works belong.
—Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born Physicist
The number one goal of teachers should be to help students learn how to learn.
—Randy Pausch (1960–2008) American Computer Scientist
A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.
—Bob Edwards (1947–2024) American Radio Journalist, Peabody Award Winner
The desire to know is natural to good men.
—Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Polymath, Painter, Sculptor, Architect
There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.
—Cicero (106BCE–43BCE) Roman Philosopher, Orator, Politician, Lawyer
The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.
—Plato (428 BCE–347 BCE) Greek Philosopher, Mathematician, Educator
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.
—Confucius (551–479 BCE) Chinese Philosopher
True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.
—Pauline Phillips (Abigail van Buren) (1918–2013) American Advice Columnist, Radio Personality
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
—Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born Physicist
The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.
—Mortimer J. Adler (1902–2001) American Philosopher, Educator
I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
—Margaret Mead (1901–78) American Anthropologist, Social Psychologist
If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.
—Confucius (551–479 BCE) Chinese Philosopher
The hardest part of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain; to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do.
—Nan Fairbrother (1913–71) English Writer, Educator
If you were graduated yesterday, and have learned nothing today, you will be uneducated tomorrow.
—Unknown
You can’t learn less.
—Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983) American Inventor, Philosopher
Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow.
—C. William Pollard (b.1938) American Businessman
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 (1952–2001) English Novelist, Scriptwriter
Learning is like rowing upstream: not to advance is to drop back.
—Chinese Proverb
How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a deep, wide gulf, a chasm, and in that chasm is no place for any man.
—Johnny Cash (1932–2003) American Country Singer, Songwriter, Guitarist
One thousand days to learn; ten thousand days to refine.
—Japanese Proverb
Nothing in this world is a gift. Whatever must be learned must be learned the hard way.
—Carlos Castaneda (1925–98) Peruvian-born American Anthropologist, Author
We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.
—Lloyd Alexander (1924–2007) American Writer of Fantasy Novels
It takes a great deal of living to get a little deal of learning.
—John Ruskin (1819–1900) English Writer, Art Critic
What you think about when you don’t have to think, shows what you really are.
—David O. McKay (1873–1970) American Religious Leader, Educator
I had six honest serving men. They taught me all I knew. Their names were: Where, What, When, Why, How and Who.
—Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) British Writer, Poet, Novelist, Short Story Author
This loving person is a person who abhors waste—waste of time, waste of human potential. How much time we waste. As if we were going to live forever.
—Leo Buscaglia (1924–98) American Motivational Speaker
He who is proficient is learning, but deficient in morals, is more deficient than proficient.
—Unknown
A little learning is a dangerous thing, and yet it is what all must attain before they can arrive at great learning; it is the utmost acquisition of those who know the most in comparison of what they do not know.
—Richard Whately (1787–1863) English Philosopher, Theologian
If I am through learning, I am through.
—John Wooden (1910–2010) American Basketball Coach, Educator
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