The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.

Mark Twain, author

 

All television is educational television. The question is: What is it teaching?

Nicholas Johnson, former member, Federal Communications Commission

 

You must learn day by day, year by year, to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about...the more you have left when everything happens.

Ethel Barrymore, actress

 

Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.

Chinese proverb

 

I would like to be a bigger and more knowledgeable person 10 years from now than I am today. I think that for all of us, as we grow older, we must discipline ourselves to continue expanding, broadening, learning, keeping our minds active and open.

Clint Eastwood, actor, director

 

All I know I learnt after I was thirty,

Georges Clemenceau, former French premier

 

I have learnt silence from the talkative, tolerance from the intolerant and kindness from the unkind.

Kahlil Gibran, writer and artist

 

From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot in front of the other, But when books are opened, you discover that you have wings.

Helen Hayes, actress

 

The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.

James Russel Lowell, poet

 

A child miseducated is a child lost

President John F. Kennedy

 

I listen to critics, because often they're a good source of information for what you have to do differently.

John Chambers, chief executive, Cisco Systems

 

To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.

Bruce lee, martial artist

 

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., essayist, physician

 

The truth is force upon us, very quickly, by a foe.

Aristophanes, dramatist

 

Everyone is ignorant, only on different subjects.

Will Rogers, humorist

 

Those who complain teach me how I can pleases others so that more customers will come. The only people who hurt me are the ones who are dissatisfied and don't complain. They deprive me of an opportunity to improve myself.

Marshall Field, retailer

 

Learning is not attained by chance; it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.

Abigail Adams, first lady to President John Adams

 

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.

President John F. Kennedy

 

The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, poet

 

Learning is not compulsory... Neither is survival.

W. Edwards Deming, statistician, quality-control expert

 

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

Rabbinical saying

 

One must learn by doing the thing, for though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try it.

Aristotle, philosopher

 

Even when men teach, they learn.

Seneca, statesman

 

The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose. Life is a learning process, and you have to try to learn what's best for you...Life is not fun when you banging your head against a brick wall all the time.

John McEnroe, tennis player

 

The years teach us much the days never knew.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, essayist, philosopher, poet

 

He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.

Sir William Drummond, poet

 

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

Derek Bok, college president

 

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

Alexander Pope, poet

 

 I cannot tell the truth about anything unless I confess being a student, growing and learning something new every day. The more I learn, the clearer my view of the world becomes.

Sonia Sanchez, poet, playwright, educator

 

He that knew all that ever learning writ, Knew only this...that he knew nothing yet.

Aphra Behn, playwright

 

A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

Buddha, Indian religious leader

 

A life spent making mistakes is not only honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

George Bernard Shaw, playwright

 

The mind is like the stomach. It's not how much you put into it that counts, but how much it digests.

A.J Nock, essayist

 

 

No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, essayist, lecturer, philosopher

 

The world of learning is so broad, and the human soul is so limited in power! We reach forth and strain every nerve, but we seize only a bit of the curtain that hides the infinite from us.

Maria Mitchell, astronomer, educator

 

Wherever there are beginners and experts, old and young, there is some kind of learning going on, and some sort of teaching. We are all pupils, and we are all teachers.

Gilbert Highet, classical scholar, college teacher

 

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

Sir Winston Churchill, British prime minister

 

That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.

Doris Lessing, author

 

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., essayist, physician