Quotes about Learning
The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.
— Laurence Sterne
It is sad but unfortunately true that man learns nothing from history.
— Carl Jung
A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.
— Cicero
Experience alone can decide on truth.
— Albert Einstein
Character is the aim of true education; and science, history, and literature are but means used to accomplish this desired end.
— David O. McKay
Our passion for learning ... is our tool for survival.
— Carl Sagan
It is characteristic of the unlearned that they are forever proposing something which is old, and because it has recently come to their own attention, supposing it to be new.
— Calvin Coolidge
When science is learned in love, and its powers are wielded by love, they will appear the supplements and continuations of the material creation.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Books to judicious compilers, are useful; to particular arts and professions, they are absolutely necessary; to men of real science, they are tools: but more are tools to them.
— Samuel Johnson
I do not know whether you are fond of chemical reading. There are some things in this science worth reading.
— Thomas Jefferson
The more ignorant we become the less value we set on science, and the less inclination we shall have to seek it.
— Thomas Jefferson
Nature does not reveal her mysteries once and for all.
— Seneca