Learning Quotes
“Young children were sooner allured by love, than driven by beating, to attain good learning.”
-- Roger Ascham
“So foolish is the heart of man that he ever puts his hope in the future, learning nothing from his past errors and fancying that tomorrow must be better than today.”
-- Mika Waltari
“For me, French is so rich and so sacred that learning it is like learning a foreign language.”
-- Fabrice Luchini
“Also, the more you're not focused on showbiz and instead focused on life, learning about other people, and keeping your eyes open and trying to be aware of the world.”
-- Jason Schwartzman
“In terms of doing work and in terms of learning and evolving as a person, you just grow more when you get more people's perspectives... I really try and live the mission of the company and... keep everything else in my life extremely simple.”
-- Mark Zuckerberg
“While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept apart from it. The danger is too great of thus learning to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery, and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit.”
-- Lewis Carroll
“The life ahead can only be glorious if you learn to live in total harmony with the Lord.”
-- Sai Baba
“We also learn that this country and the Western world have no monopoly of goodness and truth and scholarship, we begin to appreciate the ingredients that are indispensable to making a better world. In a life of learning that is, perhaps, the greatest lesson of all.”
-- John Hope Franklin
“What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?”
-- James Madison
“The countries who do the best in international comparisons, whether it's Finland or Japan, Denmark or Singapore, do well because they have professional teachers who are respected, and they also have family and community which support learning.”
-- Howard Gardner
“Pop songs are not as graceful as they used to be. Performers today haven't gone through the regimen of learning how to write. And of course, everyone wants to own copyrights.”
-- Hal David
“There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.”
-- Christopher Morley