On Learning: Aphorisms

"For the things we have to learn before we can do, we learn by doing." (Aristotle, "Nicomachean Ethics", Book II, 349 BC)

"A little learning is a dangerous thing." (Alexander Pope)

"A few moments to learn, a lifetime to master." (proverb)

"Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master." (Leonardo da Vinci)

"Much learning does not teach understanding." (Heraclitus, "Fragments", 6th c. BC)

"The learning of many things does not teach intelligence […]." (Pythagoras of Samos)

"Much learning does not teach a man to have intelligence." (Heraclitus of Ephesus)

"Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning." (William A Ward)

"Learning is a treasure which accompanies its owner everywhere." (proverb)

"Learning is its own exceeding great reward." (William Hazlitt, "The Plain Speaker", 1826)

"What we learn with pleasure we never forget." (Louis Mercier)

"Whatever is good to know is difficult to learn." (Greek proverb)

"We learn to walk by stumbling." (Bulgarian proverb)

"He who is afraid to ask is ashamed of learning." (Danish proverb)

"It takes ten pounds of common sense to carry one pound of learning." (Persian proverb)

"He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet." (Joseph Joubert)

"Learning is not attained by chance. It must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence." (Abigail Adams)

"Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost." (Thomas Fuller)

"[…] education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being." (Maria Montessori)