Bacon Francis 1561-1626
Essays ‚Of Vicissitude of Things'
In the youth of a state arms do flourish; in the middle age of a state, learning; and then both of them together for a time; in the declining age of a state, mechanical arts and merchandise.
Butler Samuel 1835-1902
Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
Crabbe George 1754-1832
„The Library"
Fashion, though Folly's child, and guide of fools,
Rules e'en the wisest, and in learning rules.
Disraeli Benjamin 1804-1881
A University should be a palce of light, of liberty, and of learning.
Ford Henry 1863-1947
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
Gay John 1685-1732
Fables (introduction)
Whence is thy learning? Hath thy toil
O'er books consumed the midnight oil?
Goldsmith Oliver 1730-1774
She Stoops to Conquer „Song"
Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain,
With grammar, and nonsense, and learning,
Good liquor, I stoutly maintain,
Gives genius a better discerning.
Hazlitt William 1778-1830
Learning is the knowledge of that which none but the learned know.
Horner Marina
What si important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain anwers.
Huxley Adous 1894-1963
An old codger, rampant, and still learning.
Knox Vicesimus 1752-1821
Essays Moral and Literary
That learning belongs not to the female character, and that the female mind is not capable of a degree of improvement equal to that of the other sex, are narrow and unphilosophical prejudices.
Leonardo Da Vinci 1452-1519
Notebooks
While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
Locke John 1632-1704
An Essay concerning Human Understanding
The commonwealth of learning is not at this time without master-builders, whose mighty designs, in advancing the sciences, will leave lasting monuments to the admiration of posterity ... ‘tis ambition enough to be employed as an under-labourer in clearing ground a little, and removing some of the rubbish that lies in the way of knowledge.
Major John 1943-
Good order brings good learning.
Morley Christopher 1890-1957
There are three ingredients in the good life; learning, earning and yearning.
Peacock Thomas Love 1785-1866
Nightmare Abbey
He was sent, as usual, to a public school, where a little learning was painfully beaten into him, and from thence to the university, where it was carefully taken out of him.
Plato 429-347 BC
All learning has an emotional base.
Pope Alexander 1688-1744
An Essay on Criticism
A little learning is a dangerous thing;
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring;
There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,
And drinking largely sobers us again.
Proverbs and Sayings
Latin
By learning you will teach; by teaching you will learn.
Proverbs and Sayings
Rabbinical
Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.
Quarles Francis 1592-1644
The Shepherd's Oracles
We'll cry both arts and learning down,
And hey! then up go we!
Queneau Raymond 1903-1976
Learning to learn is to know how to navigate in a forest of facts, ideas and theories, a proliferation of constantly changing items of knowledge. Learning to learn is to know what to ignore but at the same time not rejecting innovation and research.
Shakespeare William 1564-1616
The Taming of the Shrew
O! this learning, what a thing it is.
Smith Sydney 1771-1845
(of Macaulay)
He not only overflowed with learning, but stood in the slop.
Solon c.640-c.556 BC
I grow old ever learning many things.
Temple William 1881-1944
Learning passes for wisdom among those who want both.
Trapp Joseph 1679-1747
(of George I's donation of Library to Cambridge)
The king, observing with judicious eyes
The state of both his universities,
To Oxford sent a troop of horse, and why?
That learned body wanted loyalty;
To Cambridge books, as very well discerning
How much that loyal body wanted learning.
Tucker Antony fl. 1653-1661
(attributed, whilst Master of St. John's College, Oxford)
With their godliness they may deceive me, with their learning they cannot.
Young Edward 1683-1765
The Love of Fame
Some for renown on scraps of learning dote,
And think they grow immortal as they quote.