"If you realize that you have enough, you are truly rich."
Read quote
36 likes
Learning quotes
Learning
2K quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Explore further
Topics related to Learning
Browse quotes that often appear alongside learning — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.
Quote collection
Learning quotes (page 8 of 101)
Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.
"The sole concern of learning is to seek one's original heart."
Read quote
36 likes
"We've got to do fewer things in school. The greatest enemy of understanding is coverage... You've got to take enough time to get kids deeply involved in something so they can think about it in lots of different ways and apply it."
Read quote
36 likes
"I knew I couldn't sing over them, so I decided to sing under them. The more noise they made the more softly I sang. When they discovered they couldn't hear me, they began to look at me. Then they began to listen. As I sang, I kept thinking, 'softly with feeling.' The noise dropped to a hum; the hum gave way to silence. I had learned how to reach and hold my audience -- softly, with feeling."
Read quote
35 likes
"Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it."
Read quote
35 likes
"Truth is a shining goddess, always veiled, always distant, never wholly approachable, but worthy of all the devotion of which the human spirit is capable."
Read quote
35 likes
"We need to teach how doubt is not to be feared but welcomed. It's OK to say, "I don't know.""
Read quote
35 likes
"If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience."
Read quote
35 likes
"Some people have learned to earn well but they haven't learned to live well."
Read quote
35 likes
"What was really needed was a fundamental change in our attitude toward life. We had to learn ourselves and, furthermore, we had to teach the despairing men, that it did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us."
Read quote
34 likes
"Neglect of mathematics work injury to all knowledge, since he who is ignorant of it cannot know the other sciences or things of this world. And what is worst, those who are thus ignorant are unable to perceive their own ignorance, and so do not seek a remedy."
Read quote
34 likes
"Language is not a genetic gift, it is a social gift. Learning a new language is becoming a member of the club -the community of speakers of that language."
Read quote
34 likes
"Education is not received. It is achieved."
Read quote
33 likes
"Never begrudge the money you spend on your own education."
Read quote
33 likes
"The business of education is not to make the young perfect in any one of the sciences, but so to open and dispose their minds as may best make them - capable of any, when they shall apply themselves to it."
Read quote
33 likes
"Cramming seeks to stamp things in by intense application immediately before the ordeal. But a thing thus learned can form but few associations."
Read quote
32 likes
"Anything is possible. Anything can be."
Read quote
32 likes
"Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune."
Read quote
31 likes
"More important than talent, strength, or knowledge is the ability to laugh at yourself and enjoy the pursuit of your dreams."
Read quote
31 likes
"We need to haunt the house of history and listen anew to the ancestors' wisdom."
Read quote
31 likes