Learning Quotes

“Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.”

-- John Holt

“Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.”

-- William Penn

“The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live.”

-- Oliver Wendell Holmes

“I like to start out each day from the beginning. I'm always learning things.”

-- Bruce Weber

“Young children were sooner allured by love, than driven by beating, to attain good learning.”

-- Roger Ascham

“You teach best what you most need to learn.”

-- Richard Bach

“So foolish is the heart of man that he ever puts his hope in the future, learning nothing from his past errors and fancying that tomorrow must be better than today.”

-- Mika Waltari

“For me, French is so rich and so sacred that learning it is like learning a foreign language.”

-- Fabrice Luchini

“Also, the more you're not focused on showbiz and instead focused on life, learning about other people, and keeping your eyes open and trying to be aware of the world.”

-- Jason Schwartzman

“In terms of doing work and in terms of learning and evolving as a person, you just grow more when you get more people's perspectives... I really try and live the mission of the company and... keep everything else in my life extremely simple.”

-- Mark Zuckerberg