Learning Quotes
Learning builds daily accumulation, but the practice of Tao builds daily simplification. Simplify and simplify, until all contamination from relative, contridictory thinking is eliminated. Then one does nothing, yet nothing is left undone. One who wins the world does so by not meddling with it. One who meddles with the world loses it.Tao te Ching, 48. Lao - Tzu
Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.Edward Gibbon
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.Albert Einstein
Liberty without learning is always in peril; learning without liberty is always in vain.John F. Kennedy
Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.William Arthur Ward
I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.Louisa May Alcott
Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo Clinic.Roy Blount Jr.
They are the guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in that great business of ours, of learning how to be, to do, to do without, and to depart.John Morley
Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.Chinese Prove
We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.Lloyd Alexande
Learning is acquired by reading books but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading man, and studying all the various editions of them.Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked.Lord Chesterfield
Much learning does not teach understanding.Heraclitus, On the Universe
Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them.Lord Chesterfield