Learning Quotations

As the title suggests, this category contains quotations dealing with learning and education.

Showing 37 through 48 of 48 quotations in this category.

"Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper."

-Robert Frost

"Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them."

-John Ruskin

"Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave."

-Henry Peter Brougham

"In the US, higher education is a luxury that costs you $100,000+ to get, while in Finland it's considered so valuable to society that it actually pays you to get it. Everything else follows from that difference in attitudes."

-ultranova (Slashdot.org)

"Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it."

-Samuel Johnson

"Practice is the best of all instructors."

-Publilius Syrus

"There is no branch of mathematics, however abstract, which may not some day be applied to phenomena of the real world."

-Nicolai Ivanovitch Lobachevsky

"When the student is ready... the lesson appears."

-Gene Oliver

"Only the educated are free."

-Epictetus

"The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn."

-Alvin Toffler

"We cannot learn without pain."

-Aristotle

"Learning is finding out what you already know."

-Richard Bach