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

“I think Lenat is headed in the right direction, but someone needs to include a knowledge base about learning.”

-- Marvin Minsky

“Diligent as one must be in learning, one must be as diligent in forgetting otherwise the process is one of pedantry, not culture.”

-- Albert J. Nock

“While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.”

-- Leonardo da Vinci

“It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.”

-- John Wooden

“I'm learning to accept the lack of privacy as the real downer in my profession.”

-- Halle Berry

“No man is the wiser for his learning it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon but wit and wisdom are born with a man.”

-- John Selden

“Taking charge of your own learning is a part of taking charge of your life, which is the sine qua non in becoming an integrated person.”

-- Warren G. Bennis

“Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.”

-- Anthony J. D'Angelo

“Wear your learning like your watch, in a private pocket and do not pull it out, and strike it, merely to show that you have one.”

-- Lord Chesterfield