Quotes about Learning

Education is… hanging around until you've caught on.

We go to school to learn to work hard for money. I write books and create products that teach people how to have money work hard for them.

You have to be smart. The easy days are over.

I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.

5 minutes of learning today is better than no minutes of learning today.

Ordinary people have big TVs. Extraordinary people have big libraries.

I believe all suffering contains at least the opportunity for good," came his response, "but not everyone actualizes that potential. Not all of us learn and benefit from suffering; that's where free will comes in. One prisoner in a concentration camp will react quite differently from another, because of the choice each one makes to respond to the environment.

Through doubt we can learn more than through naive trust

just about every human being can reflect on his or her past and say, 'I learned from that hardship. I didn't think I would at the time, but I'm a bigger and better person for having endured it and persevered.

The only knowledge that is worthwhile, writes Northrop Frye. is the knowledge that leafs to wisdom, for knowledge without wisdom is a body without life.

The end of learning, he said, is to "repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him" by acquiring "true virtue" (Hughes 631). This reinforces and expands Sidney's point that the end of learning is virtuous action.

Everything that surrounds you can give you something.51 —Hungarian photographer André Kertész