Subject: Education » Learning (Page 2)

I paid $120,000 for someone to tell me to read Jane Austen, and then I didn’t.

(1982 – ) American comedian, actor, writer & producer

Ah, well… we live and learn, or, anyway, we live.

(1884 – 1949) American humorist & literary critic

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

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

Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student; at least they can find Kuwait.

(1952 – ) American writer & comedian

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

What we learn after we know it all, is what counts.

Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.

(1889 – 1945) actor, author & humorist

I never could make out what those damned dots meant.

(1911 – 1968) British politician & son of Prime Minister Winston Churchill

To learn that all I really need to know I learned in kindergarten, I needed to go to grad school.


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

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

(1930 – 2013) American baseball manager

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

(1908 – 1980) businessman, humorist

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

Genitals are a great distraction to scholarship.

(1932 – 2000) English author & academic

Fleas can be taught nearly anything a congressman can.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

You live and learn… at any rate, you live.

(1952 – 2001) English writer, dramatist, & musician

Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra; in real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.

(1950 – ) writer & humorist

Every instructor assumes that you have nothing else to do except study for that instructor’s course.

If we keep on learning at this rate well soon know nothing at all.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist