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I don't divide the world into the weak and the strong, or the successes and the failures, those who make it or those who don't. I divide the world into learners and non-learners. -Benjamin Barber

The one real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions. -Bishop Mandell Creighton

If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. -Benjamin Franklin

Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him. -Aldous Huxley

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. -Alvin Toffler

It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know. -Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

There is no such thing as a 'self-made' man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character and of our thoughts. -George Matthew Adams

No knowledge is unimportant. No response to beauty is unimportant. And, in fact, the most exciting thing of all is the exploration of new and interesting and beautiful things. - Franklin D. Murphy

Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral. -John Burroughs [Time and Change]

The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it. -James Bryce

Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time. -Mark Twain

The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page. -Saint Augustine

Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption. -John Stuart Mill

I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism. -Charles Schwab

Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian. - Dennis Wholey

A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting. -Abraham Maslow (1908-1970)

Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher. - Japanese proverb

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. - Galileo Galilei

The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things. - Plato

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. - Isaac Newton

It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them. - Leo Buscaglia

They know enough who know how to learn. - Henry Adams

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards. - Anatole France

6-5-08 Version, www.cs.ucla.edu/~klinger/8_learn.html