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?'”
“These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness.”
-- Anthony de Mello
“We were learning together. We'd go to various clinics and try to learn as much as possible.”
-- Tom Conway
“I think I started learning lessons about being a good person long before I ever knew what basketball was. And that starts in the home, it starts with the parental influence.”
-- Julius Erving
“A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.”
-- Frederick Douglass