Learning

Learning is often spoken of as if we are watching the open pages of all the books which we have ever read, and then, when occasion arises, we select the right page to read aloud to the universe. – Alfred North Whitehead, address delivered to the Training College Association of

Get over the idea that only children should spend their time in study. Be a student so long as you still have something to learn, and this will mean all your life. – Henry L. Doherty

I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma. – Eartha Kitt

It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts. – Attributed to Harry S Truman

In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled. – Paul Eldridge

Give me a fruitful error any time, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections. You can keep your sterile truth for yourself. – Vilfredo Pareto

It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it. – Jacob Bronowski

Man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon. – Alexander Pope

Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing. – Thomas Huxley

I don’t think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday. – Abraham Lincoln

There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm. – Willa Cather

There are many things which we can afford to forget which it is yet well to learn. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

I am defeated, and know it, if I meet any human being from whom I find myself unable to learn anything. – George Herbert Palmer

Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn and you will. – Vernon Howard

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

No matter how one may think himself accomplished, when he sets out to learn a new language, science, or the bicycle, he has entered a new realm as truly as if he were a child newly born into the world. – Frances Willard, How I Learned to Ride the Bicycle

If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world has wasted a great deal of time. – Russell Hoban

The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue. – Antisthenes

It is not hard to learn more. What is hard is to unlearn when you discover yourself wrong. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)