Quotes About Learning

I find four great classes of students: The dumb who stay dumb. The dumb who become wise. The wise who go dumb. The wise who remain wise. ~Martin H. Fischer


Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. ~Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.



Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. ~Henry Ford



If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world has wasted a great deal of time. ~Russell Hoban


You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives. ~Clay P. Bedford


I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me. ~Dudley Field Malone


You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way. ~Marvin Minsky


The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn. ~John Lubbock

Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily. ~Thomas Szasz


A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study. ~Chinese Proverb



Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes


Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon. ~Alexander Pope


Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves. ~Abbé Dimnet, Art of Thinking, 1928


I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday. ~Abraham Lincoln


The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr. ~Mohammed


Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere. ~Chinese Proverb


All the world is a laboratory to the inquiring mind. ~Martin H. Fischer


I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught. ~Winston Churchill


The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live. ~Mortimer Adler


There are many things which we can afford to forget which it is yet well to learn. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.