Famous Quotes

"The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learning, and from that irreverence love may spring."

Robertson Davies on Learning

More quotes about Learning

• "I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."

  Maya Angelou on Learning

• "Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school."

  Albert Einstein on Learning

• "We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools."

  Martin Luther King, Jr. on Learning

• "Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."

  Mahatma Gandhi on Learning

• "Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored."

  Earl Nightingale on Learning

More quotes by Robertson Davies

• "The great book for you is the book that has the most to say to you at the moment when you are reading. I do not mean the book that is most instructive, but the book that feeds your spirit. And that depends on your age, your experience, your psychological and spiritual need."

• "A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight."

• "Do not suppose, however, that I intend to urge a diet of classics on anybody. I have seen such diets at work. I have known people who have actually read all, or almost all, the guaranteed Hundred Best Books. God save us from reading nothing but the best."

• "The great book for you is the book that has the most to say to you at the moment when you are reading. I do not mean the book that is most instructive, but the book that feeds your spirit. And that depends on your age, your experience, your psychological and spiritual need."

• "The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past."