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.