Quotes About Learning

My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to facts, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations.

That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men. Consequently whereunto, those persons, that for the most part can give no other proof of being wise, take great delight to shew what they think they have read in men, by uncharitable censures of one another behind their backs.

If I read as many books as most men do, I would be as dull-witted as they are.

Concerning the first, there is a saying much usurped of late, That Wisedome is acquired, not by reading of Books, but of Men.

He that is to govern a whole Nation, must read in himself, not this, or that particular man; but Man-kind: which though it be hard to do, harder than to learn any Language, or Science; yet, when I shall have set down my own reading orderly, and perspicuously, the pains left another, will be onely to consider, if he also find not the same in himself. For this kind of Doctrine, admitteth no other Demonstration.

For prudence is but experience, which equal time equally bestows on all men in those things they equally apply themselves unto.

If I had read as much as other men had, I would have known as little.

If I had read as many books as other people, I would know as little.

When a person with money meets a person with experience, the one with experience ends up with the money and the one with money leaves with experience.

being well educated has certain economic drawbacks. Victor's

Read Sternberg's Successful Intelligence.

Although millionaires have much more experience in making investment decisions, they allocate significantly more hours than do nonmillionaires in an effort to become even better investors. That is one of the main reasons that millionaires remain wealthy. Business

I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.

Every day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time.

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.

A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not an article for mere consumption, but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.

Without books, I would certainly die.

Health, learning and virtue will ensure your happiness; they will give you a quiet conscience, private esteem and public honour.

A] lawyer without books would be like a workman without tools.

All that is necessary for a student is access to a library.

While the art of printing is left to us science can never be retrograde; what is once acquired of real knowledge can never be lost.

Follow truth wherever it may lead you.

I haven't failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that don't work.