"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
— Mahatma Gandhi

"Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so."
— Douglas Adams

"The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,
And all the sweet serenity of books"
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"You live and learn. At any rate, you live."
— Douglas Adams

"[Kids] don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are."
— Jim Henson (It's Not Easy Being Green: And Other Things to Consider)

"I am not a teacher, but an awakener. "
— Robert Frost

"You cannot open a book without learning something."
— Confucius

"The beautiful thing about learning is that nobody can take it away from you."
— B.B. King

"Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work, and the power to appreciate life."
— Brigham Young

""I believe that we learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. In each, it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from which comes shape of achievement, a sense of one's being, a satisfaction of spirit. One becomes, in some area, an athlete of God. Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.""
— Martha Graham

"The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne."
— Geoffrey Chaucer

"We can say that Maud'Dib learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn. And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn."
— Frank Herbert (Dune)

"We learn to do by doing."
— Spencer W. Kimball

"Be wise not only in words but in deeds; mere knowledge is not the goal but action."
— The Talmud

"Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain."
— Aristotle

"Change is the end result of all true learning."
— Leo Buscaglia

"Learning

To believe you are magnificent. And gradually to discover that you are not magnificent. Enough labor for one human life."
— Czesław Miłosz

"In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists."
— Eric Hoffer

"He who laughs most, learns best"
— John Cleese

"One of the saddest verses in the Bible is this: “Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.”"
— Charlotte Sumpter, on II Timothy 3:7 (Holy Bible, King James Version)

"Ah, child and youth, if you knew the bliss which resides in the taste of knowledge, and the evil and ugliness that lies in ignorance, how well you are advised to not complain of the pain and labor of learning."
— Christine de Pizan

"Music is stored in our long-term memory. When we learn something through music, we tend to remember it longer and believe it more deeply. Dr. Joyce Brothers"
— Dr. Joyce Brothers

"Those who are enslaved to their sects are not merely devoid of all sound knowledge, but they will not even stop to learn!"
— Claudius Galen

"The best thing for being sad," replied Merlyn, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That is the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then––to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting."
— T.H. White (The Once and Future King)

"Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can, there will always come a time when you will be grateful you did."
— Sarah Caldwell

"We hear and apprehend only what we already half know."
— Henry David Thoreau

"The greatest wisdom consists in knowing one's own follies. "
— Madeleine de Sourvé de Sablé

""The scientific method," Thomas Henry Huxley once wrote, "is nothing but the normal working of the human mind." That is to say, when the mind is working; that is to say further, when it is engaged in corrrecting its mistakes.

Taking this point of view, we may conclude that science is not physics, biology, or chemistry--is not even a "subject"--but a moral imperative drawn from a larger narrative whose purpose is to give perspective, balance, and humility to learning."
— Neil Postman (The End of Education: Redefining the Value of School)

"My new favorite quote is, "Feed kids Cokes and french fries and you get an obesity crisis. Feed them mental junk food and you get non-readers and poor thinkers." "
— Joy Hakim, Washington Post 1/28/2008

"If it were customary to send little girls to school and teach them the same subjects as are taught to boys, they would learn just as fully and would understand the subtleties of all arts and sciences."
— Christine de Pizan (The City of Ladies)

"Philosophy is the toil which can never tire persons engaged in it. All ways are strewn with roses, and the farther you go, the more enchanting objects appear before you and invite you on."
— Mary Wortley Montagu

"Whatever is good to know is difficult to learn."
— Greek Proverb

""...the fundamental purpose of school is learning, not teaching." "
— PLC Educators - R Dufour

"And this is the sense of the word "grammar" which our inaccurate student detests, and this is the sense of the word which every sensible tutor will maintain. His maxim is "a little, but well"; that is, really know what you say you know: know what you know and what you do not know; get one thing well before you go on to a second; try to ascertain what your words mean; when you read a sentence, picture it before your mind as a whole, take in the truth or information contained in it, express it in your own words, and, if it be important, commit it to the faithful memory. Again, compare one idea with another; adjust truths and facts; form them into one whole, or notice the obstacles which occur in doing so. This is the way to make progress; this is the way to arrive at results; not to swallow knowledge, but (according to the figure sometimes used) to masticate and digest it."
— John Henry Newman (The Idea of a University: Defined and Illustrated in Nine Discourses Delivered to the Catholics of Dublin in Occasional Lectures and Essays Addressed to ... the)

""...learning always occurs in a context of taking action, and they value engagement and experience as the most effective strategies for deep learning.""
— R. DuFour