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Famous Quotes and Quotations about Learning
Peter Abelard, quotes about Learning:
The key to wisdom is this -- constant and frequent questioning ... for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth.more Peter Abelard quotes
Lord Acton, quotes about Learning:
Liberty is the prevention of control by others. This requires self-control and, therefore, religious and spiritual influences; education, knowledge, well-being.more Lord Acton quotes
Lord Acton, quotes about Learning:
Learn as much by writing as by reading.more Lord Acton quotes
Abigail Adams, quotes about Learning:
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.more Abigail Adams quotes
Douglas Adams, quotes about Learning:
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.more Douglas Adams quotes
Franklin P. Adams, quotes about Learning:
I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.more Franklin P. Adams quotes
Henry Brooks Adams, quotes about Learning:
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.more Henry Brooks Adams quotes
Aeschylus, quotes about Learning:
Time as he grows old teaches all things.more Aeschylus quotes
Aesop, quotes about Learning:
Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.more Aesop quotes
Publius Terentius Afer, quotes about Learning:
I bid him look into the lives of men as though into a mirror, and from others to take an example for himself.more Publius Terentius Afer quotes
African Proverb, quotes about Learning:
Don't look where you fall, but where you slipped.more African Proverb quotes
Mohammed Ali, quotes about Learning:
The man who views the world at 50 the same way he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.more Mohammed Ali quotes
Woody Allen, quotes about Learning:
I call the mind free which jealously guards its intellectual rights and powers, which calls no man master [and] receives new truth as an angel from Heaven.more Woody Allen quotes
Henri Frederic Amiel, quotes about Learning:
Philosophy means the complete liberty of the mind, and therefore independence of all social, political or religious prejudice... It loves one thing only... truth.more Henri Frederic Amiel quotes
Aristophanes, quotes about Learning:
The wise learn many things from their enemies.more Aristophanes quotes
Aristotle, quotes about Learning:
Education is the best provision for old age.more Aristotle quotes
Richard Bach, quotes about Learning:
There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go.more Richard Bach quotes
Sir Francis Bacon, quotes about Learning:
Knowledge is power.more Sir Francis Bacon quotes
Sir Francis Bacon, quotes about Learning:
For whatever deserves to exist deserves also to be known, for knowledge is the image of existence, and things mean and splendid exist alike.more Sir Francis Bacon quotes
Roger Bacon, quotes about Learning:
There are in fact four very significant stumblingblocks in the way of grasping the truth, which hinder every man however learned, and scarcely allow anyone to win a clear title to wisdom, namely, the example of weak and unworthy authority, longstanding custom, the feeling of the ignorant crowd, and the hiding of our own ignorance while making a display of our apparent knowledge.more Roger Bacon quotes
Tallulah Bankhead, quotes about Learning:
I'm a foe of moderation, the champion of excess. If I may lift a line from a die-hard whose identity is lost in the shuffle, "I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right."more Tallulah Bankhead quotes
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, quotes about Learning:
There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.more Rev. Henry Ward Beecher quotes
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, quotes about Learning:
Make men large and strong and tyranny will bankrupt itself in making shackles for them.more Rev. Henry Ward Beecher quotes
Lyman Beecher, quotes about Learning:
No great advance has ever been made in science, politics, or religion, without controversy.more Lyman Beecher quotes
Sir William Berkeley, quotes about Learning:
I thank God, we have not free schools nor printing; and I hope we shall not have these hundred years. For learning has brought disobedience, and heresy and sects into the world; and printing has divulged them and libels against the government. God keep us from both!more Sir William Berkeley quotes
Justice Hugo L. Black, quotes about Learning:
The interest of the people lies in being able to join organizations, advocate causes, and make political “mistakes” without being subjected to governmental penalties.more Justice Hugo L. Black quotes
Alan Bloom, quotes about Learning:
Freedom of the mind requires not only, or not even especially, the absence of legal constraints but the presence of alternative thoughts. The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity, but the one that removes awareness of other possibilities.more Alan Bloom quotes
Neal Boortz, quotes about Learning:
How many Catholic schools do you think teach the students to question the authority of the Pope? Do you believe Christian schools teach students to question or challenge the authority of Jesus Christ? Do military schools teach the cadets to challenge the authority of superior officers? Well, why should we then expect government schools to teach children to question the authority of government?more Neal Boortz quotes
Neal Boortz, quotes about Learning:
Government schools will teach children that government is wonderful.more Neal Boortz quotes
Jorge Luis Borges, quotes about Learning:
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.more Jorge Luis Borges quotes
James Boswell, quotes about Learning:
Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.more James Boswell quotes
Kingman Brewster, quotes about Learning:
Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of displeasure.more Kingman Brewster quotes
Jacob Bronowski, quotes about Learning:
There is no absolute knowledge. And those who claim it, whether they are scientists or dogmatists, open the door to tragedy. All information is imperfect. We have to treat it with humility.more Jacob Bronowski quotes
Giordano Bruno, quotes about Learning:
It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.more Giordano Bruno quotes
Luther Burbank, quotes about Learning:
It is well for people who think to change their minds occasionally in order to keep them clean. For those who do not think, it is best at least to rearrange their prejudices once in a while.more Luther Burbank quotes
Albert Camus, quotes about Learning:
An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.more Albert Camus quotes
Albert Camus, quotes about Learning:
Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.more Albert Camus quotes
Orson Scott Card, quotes about Learning:
The only way to learn is by changing your mind.more Orson Scott Card quotes
Gilbert Keith Chesterton, quotes about Learning:
What is education? Properly speaking, there is no such thing as education. Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another. Whatever the soul is like, it will have to be passed on somehow, consciously or unconsciously, and that transition may be called education. ... What we need is to have a culture before we hand it down. In other words, it is a truth, however sad and strange, that we cannot give what we have not got, and cannot teach to other people what we do not know ourselves.more Gilbert Keith Chesterton quotes
Gilbert Keith Chesterton, quotes about Learning:
This is the perpetual and pitiful tragedy of the practical man in practical affairs. He always begins with a flourish of contempt for what he calls theorizing and what people who can do it call thinking. He will not wait for logic--that is, in the most exact sense, he will not listen to reason. It will therefore appear to him an idle and ineffectual proceeding to say that there is a reason for his present failure. Nevertheless, it may be well to say it, and to try and make it clear even to him.more Gilbert Keith Chesterton quotes
Chinese Proverb, quotes about Learning:
Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Teach him how to fish and he'll eat forever.more Chinese Proverb quotes
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, quotes about Learning:
Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.more Samuel Taylor Coleridge quotes
Anthony Collins, quotes about Learning:
By freethinking I mean the use of the understanding in endeavoring to find out the meaning of any proposition whatsoever, in considering the nature of the evidence for or against, and in judging of it according to the seeming force or weakness of the evidence.more Anthony Collins quotes
Confucius, quotes about Learning:
If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.more Confucius quotes
Confucius, quotes about Learning:
Tell me and I forget. Show me and I remember. Let me do and I understand.more Confucius quotes
Confucius, quotes about Learning:
By nature men are pretty much alike; it is learning and practice that set them apart.more Confucius quotes
Joseph Conrad, quotes about Learning:
Of all the inanimate objects, of all men’s creations, books are the nearest to us, for they contain our very thoughts, our ambitions, our indignations, our illusions, our fidelity to truth, and our persistent leaning toward error.more Joseph Conrad quotes
Noel Coward, quotes about Learning:
I've over-educated myself in all the things I shouldn't have known.more Noel Coward quotes
John Culkin, quotes about Learning:
We don't know who discovered water, but we are certain it wasn't a fish.more John Culkin quotes
Danish Proverb, quotes about Learning:
He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning.more Danish Proverb quotes