learn quotes

What one knows is, in youth, of little moment; they know enough who know how to learn.

- Henry Brooks Adams
  The Education of Henry  Adams, ch.21.

To learn and labour truly to get mine own living, and to do my duty in that state of life, unto which it shall please God to call me.

-Book of Common Prayer
Catechism.

A Harvard education consists of what you learn at Harvard while you are not studying.

-James Bryant Conant
Quoted in Time, 29 Sep1986.

Aprendamos a ignorar, pensamiento, pues hallamos que cuanto an‹  ado al discurso, tanto le usurpo a los an‹  os. Thought, let's learn not to know, since so plainly it appears that whatever we add to our minds we take away from our years.

- SorJuana Ine  s de la Cruz
  A Sor Juana  Anthology,'Acusa la hidropes | a de mucha ciencia' (translated as'She Condemns the Bloatedness of Much Learning',1985).

Skill comes so slow, and life so fast doth fly, We learn so little and forget so much.

- SirJohn Davies
  Nosce Teipsum, stanza19.

From all I can learn, he'sgot no business, no income, and no connection worth speaking of; but then, I know nothingnobody tells me anything.

-John Galsworthy
  The Man of Property, pt.1, ch.1.

It's taken me all my life to learn what not to play.

- Dizzy (John Birks) Gillespie
Quoted in N Hentoff  Jazz Is (1978).

He that will learn to pray, let him go to sea.

- George Herbert
Jacula Prudentum (published posthumously,1651).

You learn to love by lovingby paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.

- Aldous Leonard Huxley
  Time Must Have a Stop.

   Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatsoever abysses Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.

-T(homas) H(enry) Huxley
  Letter to Charles Kingsley.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.

- Aldous Leonard Huxley
  'A Case of  Voluntary Ignorance'.

   You can't learn architecture any more than you can learn a sense of music or of painting.You shouldn't talk about art, you should do it.

- Philip Cortelyou Johnson
  'The Seven Crutches of  Architecture', informal talk to students, School of  Architectural Design, Harvard University, 7 Dec. Published in Perspecta 3 (1955).

   A man-cub isa man-cub, and hemust learn all the Lawof the Jungle.

- (Joseph) Rudyard Kipling
  The Jungle Book,'Kaa's Hunting'.

Where there is much to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, muchwriting, manyopinions; foropinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.

-John Milton
  Areopagitica: a speech for the liberty of unlicensed printing.

We live and learn, but not the wiser grow.

-John Pomfret
  'Reason'. French  mistress  of  Louis  XV.  Installed  at Versailles  (1745),  she assumed  control  of   public   affairs   and   swayed   state   policy, appointing  her  favourites.  She  was  a  lavish  patron  of  the  arts and literature.

Thislittlesteamer, likeall herbraveand battered sisters,is immortal. She'll go sailing proudly down the years in the epic of Dunkirk. And our great-great-grand-children, when they learn how we began this war by snatching glory out of defeat, and then swept on to victory, may also learn how the little holiday steamers made an excursion to hell and came back glorious.

-J(ohn) B(oynton) Priestley
  Radio broadcast, 5 Jun, quoted in The Listener,13 Jun.

If we live inside a bad joke, it is up to us to learn, at best and worst, to tell it well.

-Jonathan Raban
  Coasting, ch.6.

He comes to us as One unknown, without a name, as of old, by the lakeside, He came to those who knew Him not. He speaks to us the same word: 'Follow thou me!' and setsustothetaskswhich Hehastofulfil forour time. He commands. And to those who obey Him, whether they be wise or simple,He will reveal Himself inthetoils, the conflicts, the sufferings which they shall pass through in His fellowship, and, as an ineffable mystery, they shall learn in their own experience who He is.

- Albert Schweitzer
  Von Reimarus zuWrede (translated byW Montgomery as The Quest for the HistoricalJesus,1910).

Homines dum docent discunt. Men learn while they teach.

-Seneca full name Lucius AnnaeusSeneca called theYounger
Epistulae 7.8 (translated by R M Gummere).

Vitae, non scholae discimus. It is for life, not for school that we learn.

-Seneca full name Lucius AnnaeusSeneca called theYounger
Oral tradition based on Seneca's conclusion of a letter to Lucilius which says the opposite:'Non vitae, sed scholae discimus', Epistulae,106.12.

Most wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong: They learn in suffering what they teach in song.

- Percy Bysshe Shelley
  'Julian and Maddalo', l.544^7.

As I grow older, I constantly learn more.

-Solon
Quoted in Bergk (ed) Poetae Lyrici Graeci,'Solon', no.18.

Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.

- Dame Muriel Sarah ne  e  Camberg Spark
  The Comforters, ch.6.

We live and learn, and big mountains are stern teachers.

- Bill (Harold William) Tilman
  Two Mountains and a River.

Of course we can Learn even from Novels,Nace Novels that is, but it isn't the same thing as serious reading.

- H(erbert) G(eorge) Wells
  Kipps, bk.2, ch.2.