Quotes About Learning

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. He that travelleth 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." [ Proposition touching Amendment of Laws ]

Truth will sooner come out from error than from confusion.

For the unlearned man knows not what it is to descend into himself, or to call himself to account, nor the pleasure of that suavissima vita, indies sentire se fieri meliorem. 

For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics.

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

For all knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is an impression of pleasure in itself.

So if any man think philosophy and universality to be idle studies, he doth not consider that all professions are from thence served and supplied.  And this I take to be a great cause that hath hindered the progression of learning, because these fundamental knowledges have been studied but in passage. 

The understanding must not therefore be supplied with wings, but rather hung with weights, to keep it from leaping and flying.

Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.

Knowledge itself is power

Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning, by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.

The punishing of wits enhances their authority.

La lectura hace al hombre completo; la conversación, ágil, y el escribir, preciso".

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

PrawdÄ™ Å'atwiej wyÅ'owi? z bÅ'Ä™dów ni? z zamÄ™tu.

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

Olan olmuÅŸtur art?k, bir daha deÄŸiÅŸtirilemez, dolay?s?yla bilge kiÅŸiler ancak ÅŸimdiyle gelecekle uÄŸra??r, geçmiÅŸte olup bitenlerle uÄŸraÅŸanlar ise boÅŸa zaman harcam?? olurlar.

If you read a piece of text through twenty times, you will not learn it by heart so easily as if you read it ten times while attempting to recite from time to time and consulting the text when your memory fails.

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few books to be read wholly, and with diligence and attraction.

Knowledge is power. The real test of knowledge is not whether it is true but whether it empowers us. Scientists usually assume that no theory is 100% correct. Truth, consequently, is a poor test for knowledge. The real test is utility. A theory that enables us to do new things constitutes knowledge.

Some books are to be tasted (0-2), others to be swallowed (3), and some few to be chewed and digested(4-5); that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few are to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention

La lectura hace al hombre completo; la conversación lo hace ágil, el escribir lo hace preciso.

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.