Quotes About Learning

Too often students are being taught to read as if literature were some kind of ethics class or civics class—or worse, some kind of self-help manual. In fact, the important thing is the way the writer uses the language.

Something about the beauty of the library and how many books there were made me feel really eager to read, and I couldn't wait to get some free time so I could go back there and explore.

If we want to write, it makes sense to read—and to read like a writer. If we wanted to grow roses, we would want to visit rose gardens and try to see them the way that a rose gardener would.

Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.

[Science is] the labor and handicraft of the mind.

I have taken all knowledge to be my province.

Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

Knowledge is power [Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est].

Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

So if a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again.

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

He that hath knowledge spareth his words.

If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.

People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.

Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. He that traveleth into a country before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel.

Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.

Read not to contradict and confute, not to believe and take for granted, not to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.

Since one cannot know all there is to be known about everything,one needs to know something about everything.

Some books are to be tasted, others swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.

Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

By far the best proof is experience.

Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.