Learning Quotes
“Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them.”
“For a small child there is no division between playing and learning between the things he or she does just for fun and things that are educational. The child learns while living and any part of living that is enjoyable is also play.”
-- Penelope Leach
“By keeping my hand in that, it's the way I keep learning. The main way you learn in medicine is by practicing and working with patients.”
-- Andrew Weil
“I enjoy learning about different periods and people, and then taking what's universal about the human condition and seeing where it matches up. No matter where you are, certain things unite everybody.”
-- Laura Linney
“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
“If we have a chance of succeeding and bringing stability and democracy to Iraq, it will mean learning from our mistakes, not denying them and not ignoring them.”
-- Carl Levin
“I always loved the idea of learning martial arts, but it wasn't until I was in my 20s that I really started doing it and taking up karate.”
-- Kelly Hu