Learning Quotes
“Learning has always been made much of, but forgetting has always been deprecated therefore pedantry has pretty well established itself throughout the modern world at the expense of culture.”
“Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.”
-- William Penn
“The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live.”
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes
“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