Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them. Michel de Montaigne on learning
Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost. Thomas Fuller on learning
One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure. John W. Gardner on learning
One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more. Washington Irving on learning
The thing about being autistic is that you gradually get less and less autistic, because you keep learning, you keep learning how to behave. It's like being in a play I'm always in a play. Temple Grandin on learning
If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators. William Hazlitt on learning
Words are but wind and learning is nothing but words ergo, learning is nothing but wind. Jonathan Swift on learning
So in my freshman year at the University of Alabama, learning the literature on evolution, what was known about it biologically, just gradually transformed me by taking me out of literalism and increasingly into a more secular, scientific view of the world. E. O. Wilson on learning
It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment. Carl Friedrich Gauss on learning
I'd like to be more patient! I just want everything now. I've tried to meditate, but it's really hard for me to stay still. I'd like to try to force myself to do it, because everybody says how wonderful meditation is for you, but I can't shut my mind up. So patience and learning is the key. Ellen DeGeneres on learning
We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus but our ideas about Santa Claus change, mature and become more nuanced, whereas our ideas of God can remain at a rather infantile level. Karen Armstrong on learning
Neither comprehension nor learning can take place in an atmosphere of anxiety. Rose Kennedy on learning
Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning. William Arthur Ward on learning
But if somebody dies, if something happens to you, there is a normal process of depression, it is part of being human, and some people view it as a learning experience etc. Bob Geldof on learning
I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship. Louisa May Alcott on learning
The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free. Baruch Spinoza on learning
I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma. Eartha Kitt on learning
When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die. Lillian Smith on learning
What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support? James Madison on learning
I did stand-up comedy for 18 years. Ten of those years were spent learning, four years were spent refining, and four years were spent in wild success. I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a byproduct. The course was more plodding than heroic. Steve Martin on learning