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Read the Following Learning Quotations and Consider Your Own Efforts at Learning the Truth About the World You Live in.

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“I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.”

– Socrates.

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“It takes two to speak the truth, one to speak, and another to hear.”

– Henry David Thoreau.

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“Before you become too entranced with gorgeous gadgets and mesmerizing video displays, let me remind you that information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, and wisdom is not foresight.

“Each grows out of the other, and we need them all.”

– Arthur C. Clarke.

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“I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.”

– Eartha Kitt.

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“Learning is not a spectator sport.”

– D. Blocher.

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“People learn something every day, and a lot of times it’s that what they learned the day before was wrong.”

– Bill Vaughan.

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“The pupil can only educate himself. Teachers are the custodians of apparatus upon which he himself must turn and twist to acquire the excellencies that distinguish the better from the poorer of God’s vessels.”

– Martin H. Fischer.

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“You have learned something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.”

– H.G. Wells.

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“Knowledge in the form of an informational commodity indispensable to productive power is already, and will continue to be, a major perhaps the major take in the worldwide competition for power.

“It is conceivable that the nation-states will one day fight for control of information, just as they battled in the past for control over territory, and afterwards for control over access to and exploitation of raw materials and cheap labor.”

– Jean Francois Lyotard.

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“No matter how one may think himself accomplished, when he sets out to learn a new language, science, or the bicycle, he has entered a new realm as truly as if he were a child newly born into the world.”

– Frances Willard.

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“I don’t think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.”

– Abraham Lincoln.

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“Man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.”

– Oliver Wendell Holmes.

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“It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.”

– Jacob Bronowski.

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“Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It’s not something you learn in school.

“But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.”

– Muhammad Ali.

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“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at 2 or 8. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.

“The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.”

– Moshe Arens.

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