Learning Quotes

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If a child can't learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn. — Unknown Author
The liturgy, like the feast, exists not to educate but to seduce people into participating in common activity of the highest order, where one is… — Unknown Author
READING, n. The general body of what one reads. In our country it consists, as a rule, of Indiana novels, short stories in dialect and… — Ambrose Bierce
Learning humor is like learning math - practice makes perfect. — Unknown Author
Learning is acquired by reading books; but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading man,… — Lord Chesterfield
Grades are a problem. On the most general level, they're an explicit acknowledgment that what you're doing is insufficiently interesting or rewarding for you to… — Derrick Jensen
Experience is the best teacher, but the tuition is high. — Norwegian Proverb
LORE, n. Learning --particularly that sort which is not derived from a regular course of instruction but comes of the reading of occult books, or… — Ambrose Bierce
The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but of the nature of learning; whereas, the experience gained from actual life is of the… — Samuel Smiles
What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more leisure and less… — Samuel Gompers
Some on commission, some for the love of learning, Some because they have nothing better to do Or because they hope these walls of books… — Louis MacNeice
After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades… — Richard Dawkins
Men commonly think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and imbibed opinions, but generally act according to custom — Francis Bacon Sr
Learning is the knowledge of that which is not generally known to others, and which we can only derive at second-hand from books or other… — William Hazlitt
Learning hath gained most by those books by which printers have lost. — Thomas Fuller
A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: There shallow Draughts intoxicate the Brain, And drinking largely sobers… — Alexander Pope
Charles V said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so valued learning, that he used to… — Thomas Babington Macaulay
Those who are enslaved to their sects are not merely devoid of all sound knowledge, but they will never even stop to learn — Marcus Aurelius
IGNORAMUS, n. A person unacquainted with certain kinds of knowledge familiar to yourself, and having certain other kinds that you know nothing about. Dumble was… — Ambrose Bierce
Civilization is just a slow process of learning to be kind — Tennessee Williams

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