Learning Quotes

"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow."

"Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand."

"The only mistake in life is the lesson not learned."

"I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn."

"It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For that he does not really need a college. He can learn them from books. The value of an education is a liberal arts college is not learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think something that cannot be learned from textbooks."

"The things which hurt, instruct."

"The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown."

"Never learn to do anything. If you don't learn, you will always find someone else to do it for you."

"Learning never exhausts the mind"

"The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science."

"See. It's just a theory!"

"Never let formal education get in the way of your learning."

"What's the use you learning to do right, when it's troublesome to do right and ain't no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same?"

"People like you and I, though mortal of course like everyone else, do not grow old no matter how long we live.... [We] never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery into which we were born."

"Great ideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds."

"If I would be a young man again and had to decide how to make my living, I would not try to become a scientist or teacher. I would rather choose to be a plumber or a peddler in the hope to find that modest degree of independence still available under present circumstances."

"Learn of the skillful; he that teaches himself, has a fool for his master."

"Their learning is like bread in a besieged town: every man gets a little, but no man gets a full meal."

"A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring; There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain; And drinking largely sobers us again."

"Know most of the rooms of thy native country before thou goest over the threshold thereof."