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

“I know what I like when I see it, but no way have I ever become interested in learning about it.”

-- Timothy Spall

“Learning a foreign language, and the culture that goes with it, is one of the most useful things we can do to broaden the empathy and imaginative sympathy and cultural outlook of children.”

-- Michael Gove

“When I was 8 years old, I knew nothing about martial arts. The coach told me I was talented with learning martial arts, and put me in a school.”

-- Jet Li

“Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?”

-- Bill Watterson

“Learning what you don't want to do is pretty valuable, it may be as valuable as figuring out what it is you do want to do.”

-- Joe Flanigan

“I am just learning to notice the different colors of the stars, and already begin to have a new enjoyment.”

-- Maria Mitchell

“Learning how to operate a soul figures to take time.”

-- Timothy Leary

“I knew nothing about martial arts. The coach told me I was talented with learning martial arts, and put me in a school. Three years later I got my first championship in China.”

-- Jet Li

“There has to be innate circuitry that does the learning, that creates the culture, that acquires the culture, and that responds to socialization.”

-- Steven Pinker