Learning Quotes

“I always found the extraordinary loss of life in the First World War very moving. I remember learning about it as a very young child, as an eight- or nine-year-old, asking my teachers what poppies were for. Every year the teachers would suddenly wear these red paper flowers in their lapels, and I would say 'What does that mean?'”

-- Tom Hiddleston

“Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.”

-- Josh Billings

“I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.”

-- Ernest Hemingway

“The learning process continues until the day you die.”

-- Kirk Douglas

“Every picture has been a learning opportunity for me.”

-- Sam Raimi

“Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.”

-- Thomas Fuller

“Why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth.”

-- Will Rogers

“I always wanted to go to the Chavez school but I could never afford it when I was growing up so a lot of my learning came from magic books and watching other magicians. I was also very lucky that I had a couple of really good magic teachers.”

-- Lance Burton

“Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them.”

-- Lord Chesterfield

“'Strictly Business' is about a young black man who is learning about himself, and that applies to a lot of young black men, those who are trying to find jobs. This film gives them a good look at that situation.”

-- Tommy Davidson