Conviction Quote by Jeremy Collier

Learning is the very essence of humility . . .

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

It is a little learning, and but a little, which makes men conclude hastily. Experience and humility teach modesty and fear.

— Jeremy Taylor

Modesty is a learned affectation. And as soon as life slams the modest person against the wall, that modesty drops.

— Maya Angelou

Learning is a deep human need, like mating and eating, and like all such needs it is meant to be deeply pleasurable to human…

— James Paul Gee

There are some who wish to learn for no other reason than that they may be looked upon as learned, which is ridiculous vanity…

— Bernard of Clairvaux

We come to believe that we can only learn when we are young, and that only ‘naturals’ can acquire certain skills. We imagine that…

— Robert Twigger

True modesty does not consist in an ignorance of our merits, but in a due estimate of them.

— Augustus William Hare

The earth is large and old enough to teach us modesty.

— Hans Cloos

Learning is by nature curiosity... prying into everything, reluctant to leave anything, material or immaterial, unexplained.

— Philo

...there must be a sequence to learning, that perseverance and a certain measure of perspiration are indispensable, that individual pleasures must frequently be submerged…

— Neil Postman

It is by imitation, far more than by precept, that we learn everything; and what we learn thus, we acquire not only more effectually,…

— Edmund Burke

“One learns by doing”

— Rick Riordan