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?'”
“The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose. Life is a learning process and you have to try to learn what's best for you. Let me tell you, life is not fun when you're banging your head against a brick wall all the time.”
-- John McEnroe
“The ultimate lesson all of us have to learn is unconditional love, which includes not only others but ourselves as well.”
-- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
“In the end, my pursuit of the elusive New York State driver's license became about much more than a divorced woman's learning to drive for the first time.”
-- Suzanne Vega
“A little learning is a dangerous thing Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.”
-- Alexander Pope
“Few are there that will leave the secure seclusion of the scholar's life, the peaceful walks of literature and learning, to stand out a target for the criticism of unkind and hostile minds.”
-- Felix Adler
“I grew up in a time when being a musician and learning to be a musician was actually very wonderful.”
-- Bobby McFerrin