Learning Quotes
“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.”
“Travel provided many interesting experiences, but perhaps the most useful lesson I learned was that I really had no proficiency for learning the thousands of characters of the written Chinese language.”
-- Eric Allin Cornell
“A lot of what I've been learning in the last two years is due to therapy - about my sexuality, why things go wrong, why relationships haven't worked. It isn't anything to do with anybody else it's to do with me.”
-- Boy George
“In the United States, we spend millions of dollars on sports because it promotes teamwork, discipline, and the experience of learning to make great progress in small increments. Learning to play music does all this and more.”
-- Linda Ronstadt
“Good education means learning to read, write and most importantly learn how to learn so that you can be whatever you want to be when you grow up.”
-- Patty Murray
“Churchill was the canny political animal, very devious, bursting with energy and determination, learning as hard as he could.”
-- Lord Mountbatten