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

“Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.”

-- Arthur Schopenhauer

“Words are but wind and learning is nothing but words ergo, learning is nothing but wind.”

-- Jonathan Swift

“I'm happy to be helping people that are passionate about empowering parents for student learning.”

-- Jeb Bush

“Only the other world has substance and reality only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.”

-- Abraham Cahan

“There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience.”

-- Archibald McLeish

“One goes through school, college, medical school and one's internship learning little or nothing about goodness but a good deal about success.”

-- Ashley Montagu

“I have six sisters, so I assumed I'd have a girl. Learning I was having a boy was really weird.”

-- Melissa Joan Hart

“In Britain, you do your job. When you do an American TV show, there is a sense of being one with the crew, and there is a leadership element, which was a learning curve for me because it is very different culturally. In Britain, you just do it, leave and say, 'Thanks.'”

-- Theo James

“Everything I learned I learned from the movies.”

-- Audrey Hepburn