Learning Quotes

A young man is not a proper hearer of lectures on political science; for he is inexperienced in the actions that occur in life, but its discussions start from these and are about these; and, further, since he tends to... ...

We must not feel a childish disgust at the investigations of the meaner animals. For there is something marvelous in all natural things.

Whatever we learn to do, we learn by actually doing it; men come to be builders, for instance, by building, and harp players by playing the harp. In the same way, by doing just acts we come to be just;... ...

He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.

The Eyes are the organs of temptation, and the Ears are the organs of instruction.

All teaching and all intellectual learning come about from already existing knowledge.

There are no experienced young people. Time makes experience.

The greatest of all pleasures is the pleasure of learning.

But the virtues we get by first exercising them, as also happens in the case of the arts as well. For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them, e.g. men become... ...

People do not naturally become morally excellent or practically wise. They become so, if at all, only as the result of lifelong personal and community effort.