Aristotle Learning Quotations

Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age.

Whereas young people become accomplished in geometry and mathematics, and wise within these limits, prudent young people do not seem to be found. The reason is that prudence is concerned with particulars as well as universals, and particulars become known from experience, but a young person lacks experience, since some length of time is needed to produce it.

To appreciate the beauty of a snow flake, it is necessary to stand out in the cold.

Education begins at the level of the learner.

What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing.

Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain.

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 follow his passions, his study will be vain and unprofitable, because the end that is aimed at is not knowledge but action. And it makes no difference whether he is young in years or youthful in character.

All learning is derived from things previously known.