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

“Everything starts and ends with the song, and working with writers and really learning their process and craft was an invaluable experience.”

-- Tommy Mottola

“The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.”

-- Baruch Spinoza

“Learning lines is my biggest challenge.”

-- Tim Meadows

“The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.”

-- Mortimer Adler

“Learning without thought is labor lost thought without learning is perilous.”

-- Confucius

“Home schooled children frequently combine for many purposes - and they interact well. The growth of the home schooling movement means that more and more children are learning together, just not in a traditional classroom.”

-- Ernest Istook

“I took the process of doing as much myself as I could like a duck to water. I set up my own label and publishing, etc, and it was a fun learning curve two decades ago.”

-- David Knopfler

“The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.”

-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“When I started learning the cello, I fell in love with the instrument because it seemed like a voice - my voice.”

-- Mstislav Rostropovich