Learning is its own exceeding great reward.

While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life the laughter of amusement should be kept apart from it. The danger is too great of thus learning to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit.

Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius who are often too full to be exact and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader rather than be at the pains of stringing them.

You aren't learning anything when you're talking.

I did stand-up comedy for 18 years. Ten of those years were spent learning four years were spent refining and four years were spent in wild success. I was seeking comic originality and fame fell on me as a byproduct. The course was more plodding than heroic.

What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable than that of Liberty and Learning each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?

When you stop learning stop listening stop looking and asking questions always new questions then it is time to die.

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

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding because to understand is to be free.

I'm not afraid of storms for I'm learning how to sail my ship.

Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.

Neither comprehension nor learning can take place in an atmosphere of anxiety.

I'd like to be more patient! I just want everything now. I've tried to meditate but it's really hard for me to stay still. I'd like to try to force myself to do it because everybody says how wonderful meditation is for you but I can't shut my mind up. So patience and learning is the key.

So in my freshman year at the University of Alabama learning the literature on evolution what was known about it biologically just gradually transformed me by taking me out of literalism and increasingly into a more secular scientific view of the world.

Words are but wind and learning is nothing but words ergo learning is nothing but wind.

If we wish to know the force of human genius we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning we may study his commentators.

The thing about being autistic is that you gradually get less and less autistic because you keep learning you keep learning how to behave. It's like being in a play I'm always in a play.

One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.

Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction behavior attire grace learning and all their words azimuth only at love respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.

I saw as a teacher how if you take that spark of learning that those children have and you ignite it you can take a child from any background to a lifetime of creativity and accomplishment.

Learning sleeps and snores in libraries but wisdom is everywhere wide awake on tiptoe.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

Patriotism when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.