Quotes about Learning
We are less interested in the number of disciples and more interested in the quality of discipleship.
— James MacDonald
What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?
— James Madison
What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their natural and surest support.
— James Madison
although we often succeed in teaching our pupils subjects, we fail lamentably on the whole in teaching them how to think? They learn everything, except the art of learning.
— Dorothy Sayers
in the first part, the master-faculties are Observation and Memory, so in the second, the master-faculty is the Discursive Reason.
— Dorothy Sayers
Books, you know, Charles, are like lobster-shells. We surround ourselves with 'em, and then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidences of our earlier stages of development.
— Dorothy Sayers
The whole of the Trivium was, in fact, intended to teach the pupil the proper use of the tools of learning.
— Dorothy Sayers
Example is the best precept.
— Aesop
Anyone who isn't embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn't learning enough.
— Alain de Botton
Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst. What is the right use? What is the one end, which all means go to effect? They are for nothing but to inspire.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
If a man knew anything, he would sit in a corner and be modest; but he is such an ignorant peacock, that he goes bustling up and down, and hits on extraordinary discoveries.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson