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.

I continuously go further and further learning about my own limitations my body limitation psychological limitations. It's a way of life for me.

Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library the doors to learning are always open.

People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly.

The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all.