4,503 Quotes About Learning

... be radical about grace and relentless about truth and resolute about holiness...

I don’t think people realise how vital libraries are or what a colossal danger it would be if we were to lose any more. Having had a truncated school life myself, all of my education from the age of 17 has been self-taught. I wouldn’t be the person I am today if it wasn’t for the opportunities the library gave me.

To forget is to render the pages of history as entirely blank, and the lessons of history as never taught.

I write letters to you that you’ll never see.

Everybody possesses knowledge and experience that is considered to be unique to them alone; therefore, everyone has something to learn from everyone else.

In order for knowledge to be of value, there must be an internal process of understanding how that knowledge applies to reality. Furthermore, that understanding must be translated into a corresponding change of behavior. This is the process of learning. Learning is the process of adapting knowledge and experience into a change of behavior.

Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.

He looked at me, that first day, like he had just found something he’d lost a thousand years ago.

Machines are non-living things, but they still can absorb human attitudes.