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Rank #1
 3.4
19 votes

Learning is not attained by chance. It must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence. 

- Abigail Adams

Rank #2
 3.4
8 votes

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. 

- Albert Einstein

Rank #3
 3.9
7 votes

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. 

- Alvin Toffler

Rank #4
 4.0
29 votes

A library is a hospital for the mind. 

- Anonymous

Rank #5
 3.8
5 votes

Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow. 

- Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book

Rank #6
 3.8
6 votes

The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue. 

- Antisthenes

Rank #7
 3.3
7 votes

The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you. 

- B.B. King

Rank #8
 3.0
5 votes

An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. 

- Benjamin Franklin

Rank #9
 3.6
5 votes

Accumulate learning by study, understand what you learn by questioning. 

- Cha'n Master Mingjiao

Rank #10
 2.8
6 votes

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. 

- Chinese proverb

Rank #11
 3.0
5 votes

Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back. 

- Chinese proverb

Rank #12
 3.0
4 votes

A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study. 

- Chinese proverb

Rank #13
 3.4
5 votes

It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning. 

- Claude Bernard

Rank #14
 3.8
4 votes

Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown. 

- Claude Bernard

Rank #15
 4.0
26 votes

You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives. 

- Clay P. Bedford

Rank #16
 3.8
4 votes

You cannot open a book without learning something. 

- Confucius

Rank #17
 3.2
4 votes

Learning without thought is labor lost. 

- Confucius

Rank #18
 3.2
4 votes

Learn as much as you can while you are young, since life becomes too busy later. 

- Dana Stewart Scott

Rank #19
 3.3
3 votes

The sweetest path of life leads through the avenues of learning, and whoever can open up the way for another, ought, so far, to be esteemed a benefactor to mankind. 

- David Hume

Rank #20
 3.8
4 votes

You live and learn. At any rate, you live. 

- Douglas Adams

Rank #21
 3.2
4 votes

Make the work interesting and the discipline will take care of itself. 

- E.B. White

Rank #22
 3.8
5 votes

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

- Eartha Kitt

Rank #23
 3.2
6 votes

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. 

- Galileo Galilei

Rank #24
 4.8
4 votes

Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. 

- Gandhi (1869-1948)

Rank #25
 2.2
5 votes

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts. 

- Harry S. Truman

Rank #26
 2.4
5 votes

They know enough who know how to learn. 

- Henry Brooks Adams

Rank #27
 3.5
8 votes

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young. 

- Henry Ford

Rank #28
 2.2
5 votes

Get over the idea that only children should spend their time in study. Be a student so long as you still have something to learn, and this will mean all your life. 

- Henry L. Doherty

Rank #29
 3.0
5 votes

A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on a cold iron. 

- Horace Mann

Rank #30
 3.0
4 votes

From listening comes wisdom, and from speaking repentence. 

- Italian proverb

Rank #31
 3.8
4 votes

In teaching, the greatest sin is to be boring. 

- J.F. Herbert

Rank #32
 4.4
21 votes

A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking. 

- Jerry Seinfield

Rank #33
 3.3
3 votes

We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shores of our ignorance. 

- John A. Wheeler

Rank #34
 3.3
3 votes

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

- John F. Kennedy

Rank #35
 3.7
3 votes

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. 

- John Locke

Rank #36
 3.7
3 votes

The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn. 

- John Lubbock

Rank #37
 3.7
3 votes

One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure. 

- John W. Gardner

Rank #38
 3.5
4 votes

Learning never exhausts the mind. 

- Leonardo da Vinci

Rank #39
 3.7
3 votes

Children not only have to learn what their parents learned in school, but also have to learn how to learn. This has to be recognized as a new problem which is only partly solved. 

- Margaret Mead

Rank #40
 3.3
3 votes

You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way. 

- Marvin Minsky

Rank #41
 3.0
3 votes

Almost anything can become a learning experience if there is enough caring involved. 

- Mary MacCracken

Rank #42
 2.7
3 votes

The kind of teacher who is afraid that they are going to be replaced by a computer should be. 

- Michael Fullan

Rank #43