#learn

God created war so that Americans would learn geography. ↗

— Mark Twain

#geography #war #learn

The expert knows more and more about less and less until he knows everything about nothing. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#learning #specialization #knowledge

If you ever find that you're the most talented person in the room, you need to find another room ↗

— Austin Kleon

#gigo #learn #talent #talent

A little learning is a dangerous thing. Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring; There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking largely sobers us again. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#learning #poetry #sophomoric #criticism

The only things you learn are the things you tame ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

#education #learning #persistence #education

If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work. The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable. Favorable conditions never come. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#knowledge

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind. Therefore do not use compulsion, but let early education be a sort of amusement; you will then be better able to discover the child's natural bent. ↗

— Plato

#homeschool #homeschooling #learning #education

The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education. ↗

— Paul Karl Feyerabend

#learning #education

Hey, Geekoid!" yelled Duncan Dougal, "Why do you read so much? Don't you know how to watch TV? ↗

— Bruce Coville

#education #funny #humor #humour #learning

Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#everyone #governs #his #learns #nobody