Helping all children become happy learners
Learning Quotations
Douglas Adams 1952 - 2001
Author, dramatist and satirist
A learning experience is one of those things that say, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.'
Douglas Adams 1952 - 2001
Author, dramatist and satirist
If you really want to understand something, the best way is to try and explain it to someone else.
Napoleon Bonaparte 1769 -1821
Politician and military leader.
It is only by prudence, wisdom, and dexterity, that great ends are attained and obstacles overcome. Without these qualities nothing succeeds.
Napoleon Bonaparte 1769 -1821
Politician and military leader.
Man achieves in life only by commanding the capabilities nature has given him, or by creating them within himself by education and by knowing how to profit by the difficulties encountered.
Winston Churchill 1874 - 1965
Nobel Prize winning author and politician
Personally, I am always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill 1874 - 1965
Nobel Prize winning author and politician
It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required.
Marie Curie 1867 - 1934
Double Nobel Prize winning scientist
One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.
Marie Curie 1867 - 1934
Double Nobel Prize winning scientist
You cannot hope to build a better world without improving individuals.
Marie Curie 1867 - 1934
Double Nobel Prize winning scientist
I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.
Marie Curie 1867 - 1934
Double Nobel Prize winning scientist
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.
Albert Einstein 1879-1955
Nobel Prize winning scientist
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.
Albert Einstein 1879-1955
Nobel Prize winning scientist
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence.
Albert Einstein 1879-1955
Nobel Prize winning scientist
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
Albert Einstein 1879-1955
Nobel Prize winning scientist
The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think.
Richard Feynman 1918 - 1988
Nobel Prize winning scientist
I don't know anything, but I do know that everything is interesting if you go into it deeply enough.
Richard Feynman 1918 - 1988
Nobel Prize winning scientist
I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
Richard Feynman 1918 - 1988
Nobel Prize winning scientist
The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.
Carl Friedrich Gauss 1777 - 1855
Mathematician
It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.
Mahatma Gandhi 1869 - 1948
Politician and lawyer
It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
Helen Keller 1880 - 1968
Disabilities Advocate
The bulk of the world's knowledge is an imaginary construction.
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Abraham Lincoln 1809 - 1865
Politician and lawyer
Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in.
Nelson Mandela 1918 - 2013
Politician and Philanthropist
Education is the most powerful weapon you can use to change the world.
Nelson Mandela 1918 - 2013
Politician and Philanthropist
Education is the great engine of personal development.
Nelson Mandela 1918 - 2013
Politician and Philanthropist
It is what we make out of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another.
Margaret Mead 1901 - 1978
Anthropologist and social commentator
I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
Stephen Norwood B. 1966
Educationist
Education is the master key that unlocks all doors, minds and hearts.
Stephen Norwood B. 1966
Educationist
Everyone has the ability to improve they just have to try.
Stephen Norwood B. 1966
Educationist
If learning was easy everyone would do it!
Carl Sagan 1934 - 1996
Cosmologist and Science Communicator
The fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses.
Carl Sagan 1934 - 1996
Cosmologist and Science Communicator
Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.
Carl Sagan 1934 - 1996
Cosmologist and Science Communicator
We wish to pursue the truth no matter where it leads - but to find the truth, we need imagination and skepticism both.
Leonardo Da Vinci 1452 - 1519
Polymath
He who thinks little, errs much.
Leonardo Da Vinci 1452 - 1519
Polymath
Wisdom is the daughter of experience.
Leonardo Da Vinci 1452 - 1519
