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

“It wasn't until I went to college that I met the theatre people and began to admire them because they were learning a trade that was guaranteed to make money!”

-- John Davidson

“The minute that you're not learning I believe you're dead.”

-- Jack Nicholson

“One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.”

-- John W. Gardner

“My entire learning process is slow, because I have no visual memory.”

-- Georg Solti

“We're learning as we go. We're a lot smarter this time. We understand what it takes to mobilize away from the threat of a hurricane.”

-- Ray Nagin

“Everyone can relate to love, hurt, pain, learning how to forgive, needing to get over, needing the power of God in their life.”

-- Tyler Perry

“Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.”

-- Josh Billings

“He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance one cannot fly into flying.”

-- Friedrich Nietzsche

“Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.”

-- Robert Byrne