Some of my favorite quotes on learning....

Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.  ~Mark Twain


Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.  ~Oliver Wendell Holmes


You learn something every day if you pay attention.  ~Ray LeBlond


The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.  ~Antisthenes


Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.  ~Alexander Pope


Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.  ~Thomas Huxley


Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.  ~Abbé Dimnet, Art of Thinking, 1928


I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.  ~Abraham Lincoln


The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.  ~Mohammed


Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.  ~Chinese Proverb


All the world is a laboratory to the inquiring mind.  ~Martin H. Fischer


I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.  ~Winston Churchill


The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.  ~Mortimer Adler


There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.  ~Willa Cather


There are many things which we can afford to forget which it is yet well to learn.  ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.


I am defeated, and know it, if I meet any human being from whom I find myself unable to learn anything.  ~George Herbert Palmer


Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn and you will.  ~Vernon Howard


Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.  ~Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.


I find four great classes of students:  The dumb who stay dumb.  The dumb who become wise.  The wise who go dumb.  The wise who remain wise.  ~Martin H. Fischer


No matter how one may think himself accomplished, when he sets out to learn a new language, science, or the bicycle, he has entered a new realm as truly as if he were a child newly born into the world.  ~Frances Willard, How I Learned to Ride the Bicycle


Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty.  ~Henry Ford