Subject: Education » Learning (Page 2)

You can learn many things from children… how much patience you have for instance.

(1908 – 1980) businessman, humorist

If we really learned from our past mistakes, most of us would never get out of bed in the morning.

fictional mascot and cover boy of Mad, an American humor magazine

Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

He not only overflowed with learning, but stood in the slop.

(1771 – 1845) English writer & Anglican clergyman

Never let your studies interfere with your education.

You're looking at a very proud Canadian who is very proud of the educational system in Canadia…

Canadian stand-up comedian, actor & writer

It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snowblower or vacuum cleaner.

He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty.

(1880 – ?) American author

Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.

Every child has a right to go to high school and end up with a third grade education.

(1927 – 1997) Am. comedian & satirist notable for mock presidential campaign

The Romans would never have found time to conquer the world if they had been obliged first to learn Latin.

(1797 – 1856) German critic & poet

Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.


Don't try to teach men how to do anything in public; they can learn in private; in public they have to know.

(1953 – ) comedian, dancer & writer

Experience is what you get when you don’t get what you wanted.

(1918 – 2002) advice columnist

We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing.

(1803 – 1882) essayist, poet, & philosopher

Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything one learned in school.

(1879 – 1955) German-born physicist

For every person wishing to teach, there are thirty not wanting to be taught.

(1898 – 1951) Scottish humorist

He not only overflowed with learning, but stood in the slop.

(1771 – 1845) English writer & Anglican clergyman

What men learn from history is that men do not learn from history.

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

(1930 – 2013) American baseball manager

We learn something every day, and lots of times it’s that what we learned the day before was wrong.

(1915 – 1977) columnist, writer & actor