Learning Quotes
“I always wanted to go to the Chavez school but I could never afford it when I was growing up so a lot of my learning came from magic books and watching other magicians. I was also very lucky that I had a couple of really good magic teachers.”
-- Lance Burton
“Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them.”
-- Lord Chesterfield
“'Strictly Business' is about a young black man who is learning about himself, and that applies to a lot of young black men, those who are trying to find jobs. This film gives them a good look at that situation.”
-- Tommy Davidson
“I think Lenat is headed in the right direction, but someone needs to include a knowledge base about learning.”
-- Marvin Minsky
“Diligent as one must be in learning, one must be as diligent in forgetting otherwise the process is one of pedantry, not culture.”
-- Albert J. Nock
“While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.”
-- Leonardo da Vinci
“No man is the wiser for his learning it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon but wit and wisdom are born with a man.”
-- John Selden
“Taking charge of your own learning is a part of taking charge of your life, which is the sine qua non in becoming an integrated person.”
-- Warren G. Bennis
“Wear your learning like your watch, in a private pocket and do not pull it out, and strike it, merely to show that you have one.”
-- Lord Chesterfield
“It was a fantastic learning experience and OK, I got slammed because I wasn't Audrey Hepburn but you could have predicted that, really, if you'd opened your eyes wide enough.”
-- Julia Ormond
“I do remember actually learning chords to Beatles songs. I thought they were great songwriters.”
-- Mick Taylor
“I'm learning a lot how to be good at what I do and also how lucky I am and take it all in and be grateful for all this late in life success I've been having and it's good to have people that have been around and successful for awhile and work with them and see how they behave and it's why they are who they are and why they're still successful.”
-- Jeffrey Dean Morgan