What's been said about Learning


Learning is doing

One must learn by doing the thing; for though you think you know it, you have no certainty, until you try.

Sophocles

You don't understand the material until you can do the problems at the end of the chapter.

Harry M. Kriz

 

It's not always pleasant

Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

Winston Churchill

 

And it isn't always peaceful

When there is much desire to learn,
there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.

John Milton

 
   

And a little might be dangerous

If a little knowldge is dangerous, where is a man who has so much as to be out of danger?

Thomas Henry Huxley

A little learning is not a dangerous thing to one who does not mistake it for a great deal.

William Allen White

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.

Bob Edwards

 

But learning never ends

The education of a man is never completed until he dies.

Robert E. Lee

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

Henry Ford

 

And the benefits endure

We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power, or of the hands. For have not the verses of Homer continued twenty-five hundred years or more, without the loss of a syllable or letter; during which time infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities have been decayed and demolished?

Francis Bacon


When house and land are gone a spent
Then learning is most excellent.

Samuel Foote


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Revised: April 03, 2000
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