Learning Quotes

"Try to learn something about everything and everything about something."

Thomas Henry Huxley

"The great aim of education is not knowledge but action."

Herbert Spencer

"To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge."

Benjamin Disraeli

"Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Genius without education is like silver in the mine."

"Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty."

Thomas Jefferson

"I cannot live without books."

Thomas Jefferson

"Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery."

Horace Mann

"Upon the subject of education... I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in."

"The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read."

"It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men."

Frederick Douglass

"When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world."

George Washington Carver

"The whole world opened to me when I learned to read."

Mary McLeod Bethune

"Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him."

"Literature is my Utopia."

"Liberty without learning is always in peril; learning without liberty is always in vain."

"Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education."

"Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today."

Malcolm X

"Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family."

Kofi Annan

"Before anything else, preparation is the key to success."

Alexander Graham Bell

"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood."

Marie Curie

"Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge."

Carl Sagan

"I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something."

Richard P. Feynman

"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'"

Isaac Asimov

"However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at."

Stephen Hawking