We absolutely must leave room for doubt or there is no progress and there is no learning. There is no learning without having to pose a question. And a question requires doubt. People search for certainty. But there is no certainty. People are terrified – how can you live and not know? It is not odd at all. You only think you know, as a matter of fact. And most of your actions are based on incomplete knowledge and you really don’t know what it is all about, or what the purpose of the world is, or know a great deal of other things. It is possible to live and not know. Richard P Feynman, The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P Feynman
Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching. Oscar Wilde
Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss. Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught. Winston Churchill, House of Commons 4th November 1952
Even while they teach, men learn. Seneca the Younger, Epistulae Morales
The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read,
With loads of learned lumber in his head. Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism, 1711
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. ibid.
For every person who wants to teach there are approximately thirty who don’t want to learn – very much. W C Sellar & R J Yeatman, And Now All This, 1932
I never teach my pupils. I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn. Albert Einstein
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education. Albert Einstein
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is to not stop questioning. Albert Einstein
A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instil a love of learning. Brad Henry
School days, I believe, are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence. They are full of dull, unintelligible tasks, new and unpleasant ordinances, brutal violations of common sense and common decency. It doesn’t take a reasonably bright boy long to discover that most of what is rammed into him is nonsense, and that no one really cares very much whether he learns it or not. H L Mencken
Learning to read is probably the most difficult and revolutionary thing that happens to the human brain and if you don’t believe that, watch an illiterate adult try to do it. John Steinbeck
I read for pleasure and that is the moment I learn the most. Margaret Atwood
I am still learning. Michelangelo
Luther said you learn fast. I hope he’s right. The Sting 1973 starring Paul Newman & Robert Redford & Robert Shaw & Charles Durning & Ray Walston & Eileen Rennan & Harold Gould & John Hefernan & Dana Elcar & James Sloyan & Larry D Mann & Sally Kirkland & Jack Kehoe & Robert Earl James et al, director George Roy Hill, Henry to Johnny
Rarely is the question asked, Is our children learning? George W Bush, South Carolina January 11th 2000
Everything I learned I learned from the movies. Audrey Hepburn
There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they’re necessary to reach the places we’ve chosen to go. Richard Bach
One must learn by doing the thing. For though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try. Aristotle
Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain. Aristotle
We can even learn from our enemies. Ovid, Metamorphoses
Don’t learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world. Samuel Butler
Learning, that cobweb of the brain,
Profane, erroneous, and vain. Samuel Butler, Hudibras
You cannot help but learn more as you take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is an old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it. John Updike
We learn simply by the exposure of living, and what we learn most natively is the tradition in which we live. David P Gardner
We must learn to live together as brothers or we are going to perish together as fools. Martin Luther King
Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery – it’s the sincerest form of learning. George Bernard Shaw
Mrs Weston is clearly liable for damage to the lamp-post. In the civil law if a driver goes off the road on the pavement and injures a pedestrian, or damages property, he is prima facie liable. Likewise if he goes on the wrong side of the road. It is no answer for him to say, ‘I was a learner-driver under instruction. I was doing my best and could not help it.’ The civil law permits no such excuse. It requires of him the same standing of care as any driver. Lord Denning MR, Nettleship v Weston [1971] 2 QB 691 (CA)
The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,
And all the sweet serenity of books. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Get learning with a great sum of money, and get much gold by her. Ecclesiasticus 51:28
Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow. Isaiah 1:17
For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line, here a little, and there a little. Isaiah 28:10
The Lord God hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned. Isaiah 50:4
Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. II Timothy 3:7
The biggest mistake that any teacher makes is to assume their students are interested in anything they have to say. Professor Lawrence Krauss
You cannot learn from books. The Office US s3e16, Business School, Michael’s lecture, NBC 2006
Who does not understand should either learn, or be silent. John Dee, The Hieroglyphic Monad
I campaign to improve the rights of people with disabilities. I want to know why people with a learning disability are more than twice as likely to die from avoidable causes than the rest of the population. And how some hospitals fail to care property for people like me. Panorama: Will the NHS Care for Me? BBC 2022
People with a learning disability are not all the same. ibid.