Learning Quotes

“Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?”

-- Walt Whitman

“Everything starts and ends with the song, and working with writers and really learning their process and craft was an invaluable experience.”

-- Tommy Mottola

“The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.”

-- Baruch Spinoza

“Learning lines is my biggest challenge.”

-- Tim Meadows

“The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.”

-- Mortimer Adler

“Learning without thought is labor lost thought without learning is perilous.”

-- Confucius

“Home schooled children frequently combine for many purposes - and they interact well. The growth of the home schooling movement means that more and more children are learning together, just not in a traditional classroom.”

-- Ernest Istook

“I took the process of doing as much myself as I could like a duck to water. I set up my own label and publishing, etc, and it was a fun learning curve two decades ago.”

-- David Knopfler

“The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.”

-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“When I started learning the cello, I fell in love with the instrument because it seemed like a voice - my voice.”

-- Mstislav Rostropovich