Learning Quotes
“Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked.”
“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