Quotes About Learning

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

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

Alexander Pope

The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.  

Mortimer Adler

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

Kurt Vonnegut

It is not hard to learn more.  What is hard is to unlearn when you discover yourself wrong.  

Martin H. Fischer

I am what the librarians have made me with a little assistance from a professor of Greek and a few poets. 

Bernard Keble Sandwell

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.  

Alvin Toffler

We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself. 

Lloyd Alexander

People learn something every day, and a lot of times it's that what they learned the day before was wrong.

Bill Vaughan

You have learned something.  That always feels at first as if you had lost something. 

H.G. Wells

You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives. 

Clay P. Bedford

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

George Herbert Palmer