"Always claim for achievement, and forget about success."
Helen Hayes Brown
100 Top-Notch Quotes about Learning
"Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught."
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill
(30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a British politician and statesman known for his leadership
of the United Kingdom during the Second World War (WWII). He is widely regarded as one of the great wartime leaders. He served as prime minister twice (1940-1945 and 1951-1955). A noted statesman and orator, Churchill was also an officer in the British Army, a historian, writer, and an artist. To date, he is
the only British prime minister to have received the Nobel Prize in Literature.
"Trials teach us what we are."
Charles Haddon (C.H.) Spurgeon
(June 19, 1834 – January 31, 1892) was a British Particular Baptist preacher who remains highly influential among Christians of different denominations, among whom he is still known as the "Prince of Preachers".
"It is by surprise that experience teaches all she deigns to teach us."
Charles Sanders Peirce
(September 10, 1839 – April 19, 1914) was an American philosopher, logician, mathematician, and scientist.
"I never let schooling interfere with my education."
Mark Twain, born:Samuel Langhorne Clemens
(November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910) was an American author and humorist. Twain is noted for
his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), which has been called "the Great American Novel", and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876). Twain was a friend to presidents, artists, industrialists, and European royalty.
"What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing."
Aristotle
(384 BC – 322 BC) was a Greek philosopher, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. His writings cover many subjects, including physics, metaphysics, poetry, theater, music, logic, rhetoric, politics, government, ethics, biology, and zoology. Together with Plato and Socrates (Plato's teacher), Aristotle is one of the most important founding figures in Western philosophy. Aristotle's writings were the first to create a comprehensive system of Western philosophy, encompassing morality and aesthetics, logic and science, politics and metaphysics.
"Everybody is ignorant, only on a different subject."
William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers
(November 4, 1879 – August 15, 1935) was an American cowboy, comedian, humorist, social commentator, vaudeville performer and actor and one of the best-known celebrities in the 1920s and 1930s.
"It is only when we forget our learning that we begin to know."
Henry David Thoreau
(July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862) was an American author, poet, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, philosopher, and leading transcendentalist.
"Who neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future."
Euripides
(ca. 480 BC – 406 BC) was the last of the three great tragedians of classical Athens (the other two being Aeschylus and Sophocles.
"Much learning does not teach understanding."
Heraclitus of Ephesus
(c. 535–c. 475 BCE) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher.
"Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you're asked."
Lord Chesterfield. Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
(22 September 1694 - 24 March 1773) was a British statesman and man of letters.
