Why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth.

A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning.

Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.

We do not learn and what we call learning is only a process of recollection.

When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals, he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized.

I would fain grow old learning many things.

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

If I am through learning, I am through.

These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness.