Learning Quotes

“Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination which worked with great power upon the facts of his own experience.”

-- Carl Clinton Van Doren

“It wasn't until I went to college that I met the theatre people and began to admire them because they were learning a trade that was guaranteed to make money!”

-- John Davidson

“The minute that you're not learning I believe you're dead.”

-- Jack Nicholson

“One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.”

-- John W. Gardner

“My entire learning process is slow, because I have no visual memory.”

-- Georg Solti

“We're learning as we go. We're a lot smarter this time. We understand what it takes to mobilize away from the threat of a hurricane.”

-- Ray Nagin

“Everyone can relate to love, hurt, pain, learning how to forgive, needing to get over, needing the power of God in their life.”

-- Tyler Perry

“Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.”

-- Josh Billings

“He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance one cannot fly into flying.”

-- Friedrich Nietzsche

“Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.”

-- Robert Byrne