Quotes About Learning

The wise man draws more advantage from his enemies than the fool from his friends.

Fools multiply folly.

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

After crosses and losses men grow humbler and wiser.

Most fools think they are only ignorant.

The used key is always bright.

The Things which hurt, instruct.

He who empties his purse into his mind, shall never go bankrupt.

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid

Read much, but not many books!

Of learned Fools I have seen ten times ten, Of unlearned wise men I have seen a hundred.

School and other education constantly proceed upon false principles, and show a clumsy apparatus pointed at a false mark; but your apparatus is simple, and the mark a true one;

I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Men should be taught as if you taught them not, And things unknown propos'd as things forgot;

one thing I know that is I know NOTHING

Learn of the skilful: He that teaches himself, hath a fool for his master.

By comparing my work afterward with the original, I discovered many faults and amended them; but I sometimes had the pleasure of fancying that in certain particulars of small import I had been lucky enough to improve the method or the language, and this encouraged me to think I might possibly in time come to be a tolerable English writer, of which I was extremely ambitious.

an investment in education gives the best returns

If you will not hear reason, she'll rap your knuckles.

Some to make themselves considerable pursue Learning, others grasp at Wealth, some aim at being thought witty, and others are only careful to make the most of an handsome Person; But what is Wit, or Wealth, or Form, or Learning when compar'd with Virtue? 'Tis true, we love the handsome, we applaud the Learned, and we fear the Rich and Powerful; but we even Worship and adore the Virtuous.

Benjamin Franklin

For the studies, first they should begin with the chief and necessary rules of some good grammar, either that now used, or any better: and while this is doing, their speech is to be fashioned to a distinct and clear pronunciation, as near as may be to the Italian, especially in the vowels.

Lo que hiere, enseña...