Learning Quotes

All men by nature desire to know (Aristotle, 384-322 b.c.)

We cannot learn without pain. (Aristotle, 384-322 b.c.)

Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket; and do not pull it out, and strike it, merely to show that you have one. (Lord Chesterfield, 1694-1773)

A smattering of everything and a knowledge of nothing. (Charles Dickens, 1812-1870)

You send your child to the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys who educate him. (Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1882)

A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he was born. (Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1809-1894)

Schooldays, I believe, are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence. They are full of dull, unintelligible tasks, new and unpleasant ordinances, brutal violations of common sense and common decency. (Henry L. Mencken, 1880-1956)

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action. (Herbert Spencer, 1820-1903)

Education … has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. (George M. Trevelyan, 1876-1962)

There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any valuable art. (Anthony Trollope, 1815-1882)

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. (Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900)

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