Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [1-20] of 289 Learning quotesLearning QuotesLearning Next 20 quotes The key to wisdom is this -- constant and frequent questioning ... for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth.~ Peter Abelard Learn as much by writing as by reading.~ Lord Acton Liberty is the prevention of control by others. This requires self-control and, therefore, religious and spiritual influences; education, knowledge, well-being.~ Lord Acton Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.~ Abigail Adams 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 I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.~ Franklin P. Adams Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.~ Henry Brooks Adams Time as he grows old teaches all things.~ Aeschylus Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.~ Aesop I bid him look into the lives of men as though into a mirror, and from others to take an example for himself.~ Publius Terentius Afer Don't look where you fall, but where you slipped.~ African Proverb The man who views the world at 50 the same way he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.~ Mohammed Ali I call the mind free which jealously guards its intellectual rights and powers, which calls no man master [and] receives new truth as an angel from Heaven.~ Woody Allen Philosophy means the complete liberty of the mind, and therefore independence of all social, political or religious prejudice... It loves one thing only... truth.~ Henri Frederic Amiel The wise learn many things from their enemies.~ Aristophanes Education is the best provision for old age.~ Aristotle Why is it that millions of children who are pushouts or dropouts amount to business as usual in the public schools, while one family educating a child at home becomes a major threat to universal public education and the survival of democracy?~ Stephen Arons Though defensive violence will always be 'a sad necessity' in the eyes of men of principle, it would be still more unfortunate if wrongdoers should dominate just men.~ St. Augustine 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 Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.~ Francis Bacon Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print