#earning

I've always been an avid reader. If I don't have a book in the car, I'll stop and pick one up just to have something to read. I don't even remember learning to read. ↗

— Janis Ian

#avid #been #book #car #even

All I have learned, I learned from books. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#education #lifelong-learning #lincoln #reading #self-education

The British system had requirements, including Latin. I'm not positive you ever had to know Greek, but there are certainly kinds of curricula where you had to know Greek too. I think in Britain there was the most mindless, repetitive sort of learning. ↗

— William Scott

#british #certainly #ever #greek #had

No man is the wiser for his learning; it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon; but wit and wisdom are born with a man. ↗

— John Selden

#born #his #learning #man #matter

Among the many short cuts to science, we badly need someone to teach us the art of learning with difficulty. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#short-cuts #art

Learning to make films is very easy. Learning what to make films about is very hard. ↗

— George Lucas

#easy #films #hard #learning #make

It’s very simple. As you grow, you learn more. If you stayed at twenty-two, you’d always be as ignorant as you were at twenty-two. Aging is not just decay, you know. It’s growth. It’s more than the negative that you’re going to die, it’s also the positive that you understand you’re going to die, and that you live a better life because of it. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#dying #growth #ignorance #learning #life

I grew up in a time when being a musician and learning to be a musician was actually very wonderful. ↗

— Bobby McFerrin

#being #grew #i #learning #musician

Learning, while at school, that the charge for the education of girls was the same as that for boys, and that, when they became teachers, women received only half as much as men for their services, the injustice of this distinction was so apparent. ↗

— Lucretia Mott

#became #charge #distinction #education #half

Our learning ought to be our lives' amendment, and the fruits of our private study ought to appear in our public behavior. ↗

— Thomas Nashe

#appear #behavior #fruits #learning #lives